Mailänderli
This is a recipe for Swiss cookies called Mailänderli. Prep work takes around 45 minutes, but you'll need around 2 hours before you can bake 'em, so total is around three hours.
Ingredients
* 250g Butter
* 250g Sugar
* 400g Flour
* 4 eggs
* 1 lemon
* Some salt
* Some plastic foil
Steps
Let the butter warm up so that it's soft, then beat it with a mixer.
Add the sugar and keep on mixin'.
Add three eggs, one after the other and mix well in between. It should change colour to a lighter yellow now.
Use a scraper to add little pieces of the lemon skin into the mix. I usually use the entire skin from one lemon. You won't need the rest of the lemon.
Put the mixer away and use a spatula to mix in the flour. Knead it to a dough. It'll be very sticky still, but it should form together into a single mass at least.
Spread out some plastic foil and put the dough onto it, forming a fat ass dick like the one you got down your pants.
Wrap the plastic foil around the dough and put it into the fridge for about two hours. It needs to solidify or you won't be able to cut it.
Once you're chill and the dough is as well, take it out of the fridge and let it warm up again for just a couple of minutes.
Depending on the size of the oven, the dough should get you cookies for about 4-6 baking plates. Cut an appropriate amount off for a baking plate. Spread some flour over your working area and a rolling pin, then use it to flatten the dough out. Don't spread it too thin or too thick. Ideally it should be around 3-5mm. If the dough sticks too much you're not using enough flour. If you use too much flour the cookies won't taste as good though, so tread carefully.
Use the back of a knife to cut the dough into pieces. You can also use cookie forms if you're enough of a faggot.
Spread some butter onto the back of a baking plate and put the cookie pieces on there. Make sure to leave some space between them, they're going to grow a small amount still.
Pre-heat the oven to 200°C and put the baking plate with the cookies to a cool spot, either in your fridge if it fits, or outside if it's cold enough. If you can't do either, pre-heat the oven earlier and proceed to the next step immediately, otherwise wait for the oven to warm up.
Get the egg yolk of your last egg and stir it with a brush. Get your cookies and spread the yolk over the top with the brush.
Put the cookies into the pre-heated oven and let them bake for about ten minutes. I recommend continuously watching the oven once it hits 7 minutes, as it might be ready earlier or later depending on the oven, how thick you made the cookies, and how well done you like them. Ideally they should be a strong gold to brownish colour.
Take the cookies out and let them cool on a grate.
Repeat steps 9-15 until you're out of dough or patience.