Hedgehog Cookies

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  1. Boil hard chicken egg, gently separate yolk from white. Ground boiled yolk on a small grater.
  
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  2. Melt butter (60 g) in a microwave oven or on a cooking surface, cool to room temperature and add to boiled yolk.
  
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  3. Then add sugar to the dough.
  
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  4. Whip the mixture with the help of a mixer until a fluffy homogeneous mass is obtained. Add sour cream to the dough. Mix the mixture again with a mixer.
  
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  5. Add baking powder and salt to the dough.
  
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  6. In several steps let’s add sifted wheat flour into the dough, each time mixing the ingredients until homogeneous consistence.
  
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  7. Knead soft elastic dough. Wrap it in a food wrap and send it to the fridge for 30 minutes.
  
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  8. After the specified time let’s form 8 triangular preparations from dough. Put cookies at a distance from each other on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  
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  9. Send cookies to the oven pre-heated to 180 degrees for 12-15 minutes. During this time the pastry will significantly increase in size and redden.
  
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  10. Cool down the ready cookies on the wire rack to room temperature. Meanwhile, let’s make chocolate icing. In a pan or small saucepan combine milk, cocoa and sugar powder. Mix the ingredients and put the saucepan on low fire.
  
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  11. Stir constantly and bring the chocolate icing to a boil. Then add butter (25 g) to the icing, mix. Bring the icing to boiling again and after that remove it from the fire and cool it to thickening.
  
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  12. Apply chocolate icing on cookies and decorate pastry with sesame seeds, imitating needles of hedgehogs. With the help of a toothpick, draw the hedgehogs’ eyes and nose. Leave the ready cookies for 15-20 minutes for chocolate icing to set completely.
  
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  13. Bon Appetite!