In the year of PIG, this Piggy German Butter Cookie is currently the hottest cookie to bake. The cookie is as buttery as shortbread biscuit while as crumbly as a butter cookie. Moreover, with the decent sweetness in this cookie which is not overly sweet, it is simply a perfect butter cookie recipe as a snack and a home-baked gift to your friends and family. When you start to put one in your mouth to enjoy the melt-in-the-mouth moment you are going to snack until they are all gone.
Be creative, you can basically shape this 6 ingredients German butter cookie dough into any style you like. Since 2019 is the year of PIG, everyone has gone crazy making cookies and any possible Chinese delicacy into the shape of a pig. My baking buddy, Mandy, has done a wonderful job by shaping the Piggy German Butter Cookie into a few styles and all of them are so adorable. Be it a simple piggy head, lying down piggy, valentine piggy or even a piggy wearing a Chinese New Year costume (scroll down to the last image), they are sure huge is wow factor.
Piggy German Butter Cookie Recipe
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Valentine’s Day is approaching, bake some to spread the love around!
Just a simple tweak on the design, the Piggy German Butter Cookie has turned into a lovely romantic cookie, perfect for any occasion, especially the upcoming Valentine’s Day.
Heart or Flower?
Let’s celebrate the PIG year Chinese New Year!
OINK OINK!
For a more challenging task, try out this Chinese New Year Costume Piggy German Butter Cookie. They are sure to make everyone’s jaw drop.
For more Piggy theme crafts, try:
Princess P Piggy Amigurumi
Piggy Bun Amigurumi
Piggy Pillow
Piggy Clay Charm
OMG I can’t, I just can’t! These are SO stinkin’ cute! Happy Year of the Piggy!
Can’t wait to try this recipe. I love butter cookies!
Yahhooooo!!!! We all love butter cookies 🙂
Can I substitute potato flour by using rice flour since i have a lot
I am afraid that the cookie will crack during shaping, we tried corn flour before and it cracked.
I don’t know what I did wrong. These were so so so dry to shape, dough didn’t hold together at all like your photos. Thoughts?
Is your room temperature low? Hold the dough on your hand longer to add some warmth to melt the butter further, otherwise, you may add a bit more butter to the ingredient.
Hi, tell me please, how i can replace Full Cream Milk Powder? Can i use normal milk or cream?
Thanks)
I actually made according to these recipe with a 1:1 substitution of Plain flour: potato flour, since I couldn’t find any in the supermarket, and it turned out alright. Mine were also less smooth and more prone to cracking, so using the potato flour is probably recommended, but in a pinch plain flour will work. Probably not the intended texture, but still delicious and looks like piggy.
Thank you for letting us know the outcome with plain flour substitution. I am sure the taste should be similar, perhaps not as fluffy and as melt-in-the-mouth as using potato flour. We tried corn flour before and it cracks a bit too, but it tastes similar.
I loved the picture of the Piggys cookies on the bed of hearts! They are too cute.
I noted that potato flour are being used to make the piggy biscuit.. what can I substitute it with as it is not easy to find potato flour .
Thanks
You may replace it with Potato starch in powder form. Otherwise, you may use corn starch but we find it is less crumbly compared to potato flour.
These are so cute. I can’t wait to try making them. Is there a reasonable substitute for the potato flour? Hoping I can find the flour cream powder milk.
You may replace it with Potato starch in powder form. Otherwise, you may use corn starch but we find it is less crumbly compared to potato flour.