Doggy German Butter Cookies

The 2018 Chinese New Year or Spring Festival begins on 16 February which will mark the beginning of the year of the Dog. What better way to usher in the Year of the Dog than with these cute little doggy cookies. They taste very good and are easy to to make too!

Recipe adapted from here
Ingredients: (Makes about 28 cookies)

125g unsalted butter, softened
40g icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
125g potato starch
80g plain flour

Nestle Milo cereal for ears
Mini chocolate chips for nose
Black sesame seeds for eyes

• Preheat oven at 170°C.
• Sift potato starch and plain flour together.  Set aside.
• Cream butter and icing sugar until light. Beat in vanilla extract.
• Add in flours and fold to combine to form a soft dough. Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
• Divide dough into portions of 14g each. Roll each portion into a ball and press two Milo cereal onto the ball to form ears; black sesame seeds for the eyes and chocolate chips for the nose.
• Place 'doggies' onto a baking tray and bake for about 15 minutes.  
• Leave cookies to cool on a wire rack before storing in an airtight container.