“New Year's cheese for the mouse” - cookies that will bring good luck in the new year

To warm up to the symbol of the year and decorate the New Year's holiday in an original way, funny cookies in the shape of cheese circles, which, in unison with the Christmas tree decorations, are covered with iridescent sparkles of colored sugar.
The mouse will definitely like these cookies and will bring you a lot of luck in the new year 2020.

Will need

Ingredients for 2 trays of “mouse cheese”:

• butter - 100 g,
  
• milk - 30 ml,
  
• powdered sugar - 90 g,
  
• yolks - 2 pcs.,
  
• salt - a pinch,
  
• flour - 300 g,
  
• baking powder - 3 g.

To make colored sugar:

• granulated sugar - 60 g,
  
• gel dye - 1 drop.

Cooking cookies

Preparing mouse cookies will take half an hour, + it will take an hour to cool the dough:
1. In order for the finished cookies to have a New Year's look, they need to be covered with glitter. To do this, drop food coloring into the sugar (preferably yellow - to match the color of the cheese).

2. Mix the grains thoroughly and the New Year's tinsel is ready.


3. Heat the butter in the microwave until soft. Salt it and combine with powder.

4. Beat the mixture with a mixer.

5. Without turning off the mixer, add 1 yolk at a time.

6. And at the end - pour in the milk.

7.Immediately sift the remaining dry ingredients into the butter mixture.

8. Gather the tender dough into a ball, adding 1 drop of yellow dye for color.

9. Flatten the workpiece so that it cools faster, put it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator.

10. After an hour, pinch off small pieces of yellow dough and roll out to a thickness of 0.5-0.7 cm. Cut out circles.

11. Using, for example, a pastry cutter, squeeze out holes.

12. Fill the baking sheet with the preparations.

13. Bake them at 180 degrees, without turning on convection, for 10 minutes.

14. To ensure that the glitter sticks well, grease the cookies with a very thin layer of condensed milk or honey. Dip the “mouse cheese” into colored sugar.

15. Shake off excess grains.

These cheese cookies can not only be placed on the table, but also hung on a Christmas tree by threading a ribbon through one of the holes. A tasty and unusual treat will especially delight kids.