Rooster-shaped pastry
Description
Perfectly pairs with tea and coffee. Try baking for the New Year. It's a wonderful way to spend time and a great opportunity to get creative, cook, and enjoy family, children, or simply treat yourself.
Instructions
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Step 1
To make the rooster, use yeast dough. You can buy it at the store or prepare it at home. Any recipe for pie dough will work. Take a small portion of the dough, roll it into a ball, and slightly flatten it with your hands into a pancake to form a round shape like this. As a guide, use a piece of dough the size of a not-too-large orange. Use flour for dusting and sprinkling on your hands.
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Step 2
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. My parchment paper is well greased, so I don't grease anything else anymore. Place the prepared round flat circle in the center of the sheet. From another, smaller piece, make a smaller circle—this will be the rooster's head.
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Step 3
Roll out a sausage from another piece of dough the size of an egg. Flatten it with a rolling pin. Cut strips along the entire length of the strip on one side, creating noodles, but do not cut all the way through to the end so the strip doesn't fall apart.
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Step 4
Place the resulting noodles overlapping each other, forming feather-like shapes at the rooster's neck.
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Step 5
From a smaller amount of dough, make a beak, an eye, and a comb. Decorate the resulting parts with raisins, previously soaked in water. If the raisins are not well soaked, they will burn during baking.
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Step 6
From a small piece of dough, make a little wing for the rooster.
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Step 7
From three small sausages, flattened and slit, make the rooster's tail.
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Step 8
Prepare the feet. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Brush the rooster with beaten egg yolk and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
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Step 9
For making the rooster, I used yeast dough for bagels. The rooster turned out tasty, aromatic, and delightful to a child's eye. The child really liked it.