Animal Crackers
Crispy animal-shaped crackers made from wheat flour, sugar, shortening, and other ingredients, prepared using a stiff dough process.
Ingredients
wheat flour
100
salt
1
sugar
25
baking powder
1
invert sugar
3
skim milk powder
4
shortening
8
Instructions
1
Make resilient dough
Mix ingredients according to the recipe ratio, increase mixing intensity to fully develop and extend the gluten, then knead and break the dough to make it soft, relaxed, and elastic. Add starch equal to 5%~10% of the flour amount. Control temperature between 35~38°C, add water equal to 22%~28% of the total.
2
Rest
Let the mixed dough rest for 10~30 minutes to allow the gluten to relax and stabilize.
3
Rolling
The dough sheet needs to be rolled and folded multiple times to form a uniform layered structure and eliminate internal stress. Rotate the dough sheet 90° for rolling to ensure even stress in all directions.
4
Molding
Stamp and cut the dough into animal-shaped cookie dough pieces. Keep the amount of dough scraps mixed back into the mixture below 1/3.
5
Baking
Bake in the oven until the finished cookies are crispy.
