Lucky pig

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 500 g flour
• 30 g yeast
• 60 g sugar
• 250 ml milk, lukewarm
• 60 g butter
• 1 m.-sized eggs
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 lemon(s), untreated, grated peel
• 100 g marzipan paste
• 150 g hazelnuts, ground
• 100 g sugar
• 3 m.-large egg whites
• 2 medium-sized egg yolks
• ½ cup powdered sugar
• 1 m.-sized egg white
• some cake icing (chocolate icing)

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 2 hours

Gift idea, makes 10 pigs

Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the middle. Add the crumbled yeast with a little sugar and the milk, mix with a little flour, and cover. Let it rise in a warm place for about 15 minutes. Knead the remaining sugar, melted butter, egg, salt, and lemon zest with the yeast starter and flour into a smooth dough. Cover and let it rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. For the filling, mix the marzipan with the nuts, sugar, and 3 egg whites. Roll out the yeast dough to a thickness of about 4 mm and cut out 20 cookies with a diameter of 8 cm and 10 with a diameter of 4 cm. Shape the remaining dough into ears. Spread the filling on 10 of the large cookies, brush the edges with egg yolk, place a second cookie on top, and press the edges together firmly. Shape the small cookies into snouts with nostrils. Brush the snouts and ears with egg yolk and press them onto the large cookies. Brush the pigs with egg yolk and cover again and let rise for about 15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200°C, then bake the pigs for about 15 minutes. Let them cool, then pipe eyes using the egg white and powdered sugar mixture and chocolate icing.