Little Pink Pigs
Fun no-bake pig-shaped cookies, ideal for making together as a family on a rainy day.
Ingredients
Powdered sugar (keep some extra)
90 g
Butter (diced)
50 g
Shortbread or cookies
10
Ready-made icing
200 g
Pink food coloring
a pinch
Soft pink candies
to taste
Liquid dark chocolate (for drawing facial features)
to taste
Instructions
1
Make the buttercream
Make the buttercream: Place the sugar and butter in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until creamy.
2
Prepare the icing
Add a few drops of pink food coloring to most of the icing (reserve 25 g). Knead the mixture on a work surface dusted with a little powdered sugar to distribute the color evenly. Dye the reserved 25 g of icing pink as well.
3
Assemble the cookies
Spread the buttercream on the shortbread with a small metal palette knife, right to the edges. Cut out circles from the pink icing using a cutter slightly smaller than the cookie diameter. Place one circle on each cookie and press gently so it sticks to the buttercream.
4
Make the ears
Roll out the reserved pink and white icing thinly. Dampen the white icing, place the pink icing on top and press together. Use a sharp small knife to cut out triangles for the ears. Dampen one side edge of each ear and attach it to the cookie, pink side up. Make a small dimple on the inside of each ear.
5
Make the noses
Cut 5 pink candies in half. Shape each half into an oval. Use a toothpick or wooden skewer to poke two small holes in each candy for the nostrils. Use a little buttercream to stick a half candy in the middle of each cookie.
6
Draw the facial features
Dip the end of a piping tube into the liquid dark chocolate and pipe eyes above the nose, then draw a curved mouth.
