Lucky pigs made from quark and oil dough

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 200 g quark
• 6 tbsp milk
• 1 egg(s)
• 8 tbsp oil, neutral
• 100 g sugar
• 400 g flour
• ½ pack of baking powder
• Lemon peel, grated
• 1 egg(s) for brushing
• Sweets, e.g. small Smarties and gold coins
• Nutella or icing

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 50 minutes

great for children’s birthdays or New Year’s Eve, makes about 20 pigs

Place the quark, milk, egg, oil, lemon zest, and sugar in a bowl. Mix the baking powder with the flour and sift it in. Knead everything into a smooth dough. Roll out the dough to about 0.5 cm thick and cut out approximately 6 cm circles (for the head) and two more circles each about 3 cm large for each piglet (for the ears and snout). Line the baking tray with baking paper. Beat the egg. Place the large circles on the baking tray and brush with the beaten egg. Now place one of the small circles on the large circle as a snout. Cut the second small circle in half and also place it on the large circle for ears. Brush with egg again and use a toothpick to poke two nostrils into the snout. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius (fan oven) and bake the piglets for about 20 minutes until light brown. Once the pigs have cooled, stick mini Smarties on for eyes (either with Nutella or mixed with powdered sugar and lemon juice; it should be thick). Cut a small snout into the pigs with a knife and insert a coin. Depending on the size, the dough will make enough for 30-40 pigs.