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Piggy German Butter Cookie

January 25, 2019 by Craft Passion 16 Comments

Novice, Recipes, Snacks, Valentine's Day

5 from 3 reviews:

piggy german butter cookie

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.

pig butter cookie

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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piggy cookie

Valentine’s Day is approaching, bake some to spread the love around!

valentine cookie

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.

valentine pig cookie

Heart or Flower?

wedding cookie

Let’s celebrate the PIG year Chinese New Year!

OINK OINK!

pig year cookie

 

For more Piggy theme crafts, try:
Princess P Piggy Amigurumi
Piggy Bun Amigurumi
Piggy Pillow
Piggy Clay Charm

 

Piggy German Butter Cookie

Makes about 48 pcs. of piggy cookies | Prep Time: at least 30 mins | Bake Time: 20 to 25 mins
Recipe source: Facebook – Enne Ty
Contributed: Mandy Choong

INGREDIENTS:

125 gram Unsalted Butter
50 gram Powdered Sugar / Confectioners Sugar / Icing Sugar
95 gram Potato Flour
120 gram All Purpose Flour (sieved)
10 gram Full Cream Milk Powder
Pinch of salt
Pink Food coloring
Black Sesame Seeds

METHODS:

1. Preheat oven to 150ºC now or 20 mins before baking.
2. Cream butter and icing sugar till fluffy (about 1 min). (Picture 2)
3. Fold in sieved flours, milk powder, and salt, mix well and form a dough. (Picture 3)
4. Remove 1-2 Tbsp of dough to mix with pink food coloring (1-2 dots from a toothpick). (Picture 4)
5. To make the piggy face, weigh 8g for each ball from the plain dough, arrange them on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. (Picture 5)
6. The pink dough is to make ears and snout, just pinch 3 tiny balls of dough and shape them into 2 triangles and an oval ball (for each pig). (Picture 5)
7. Arranged 2 pink triangles on top as ears, and oval ball in front as a snout. (Picture 6 & 7)
8. Stick black sesame seeds to make eyes, pressed lightly onto the dough to prevent them from falling off after baking. (I used a toothpick to do the job). (Picture 8)
9. Use a toothpick to make 2 pierced holes for the snout. (Picture 8)
10. Bake in a preheated oven, on the 2nd lower shelf, for 20-25 minutes. (Rotate trays if you needed to)
11. After removing from oven, cool for 5 minutes on a baking tray. Transferred to a cooling rack to cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

COOK’S NOTE:

A. Use butter at room temperature
B. The dough will deflate and expand a little after baked
C. For the other pattern with 4 tiny hinds facing up, I used (Picture B):

10g dough ball for the body (flatten lightly)
4 tiny balls for hinds
2 triangle (pink) for ears
1 oval for a snout

D. Besides using black sesame seeds for eyes, you may draw them with an edible ink pen.
E. This butter cookie dough is easy to make into any pattern, by using different colors and shapes.

 

Basic Piggy Shaping

Picture 1.

 

Picture 2.

 

Picture 3.

 

Picture 4.

 

Picture 5.

 

Picture 6.

 

Picture 7.

 

piggy german butter cookie Picture 8.

 

piggy german butter cookie

 

Valentine’s Piggy Shaping

Picture A.

 

Picture B.

 

Picture C.

 

piggy german butter cookie Picture D.

 

wedding cookie

Challenge yourself with a more complicated design to make the basic Piggy German Butter Cookie into Chinese New Year theme piggy cookie.

pig year butter cookie

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Comments

  1. Coco in the Kitchen -

    May 1, 2019 at 12:01 am

    OMG I can’t, I just can’t! These are SO stinkin’ cute! Happy Year of the Piggy!

    Reply
  2. Christy -

    April 6, 2019 at 11:05 am

    Can’t wait to try this recipe. I love butter cookies!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      April 8, 2019 at 9:22 am

      Yahhooooo!!!! We all love butter cookies 🙂

      Reply
      • Adelene -

        April 12, 2019 at 8:14 pm

        Can I substitute potato flour by using rice flour since i have a lot

        Reply
        • Craft Passion -

          April 15, 2019 at 2:31 pm

          I am afraid that the cookie will crack during shaping, we tried corn flour before and it cracked.

          Reply
    • Amber -

      April 23, 2019 at 9:20 am

      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?

      Reply
      • Craft Passion -

        April 23, 2019 at 10:55 pm

        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.

        Reply
  3. Valentina -

    February 13, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    Hi, tell me please, how i can replace Full Cream Milk Powder? Can i use normal milk or cream?
    Thanks)

    Reply
  4. Just a Fat boi -

    February 4, 2019 at 5:45 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 9, 2019 at 5:17 pm

      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.

      Reply
  5. Christine -

    January 29, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    I loved the picture of the Piggys cookies on the bed of hearts! They are too cute.

    Reply
  6. Les -

    January 26, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    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

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 27, 2019 at 8:21 pm

      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.

      Reply
  7. Susan -

    January 26, 2019 at 11:26 am

    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.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 27, 2019 at 8:20 pm

      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.

      Reply

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