Leopard Print Cookies - a special recipe (2024)

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Leopard Print Cookies

Children love animals, they adore biscuits (cookies) and are thrilled when you surprise them with animal themed food. These Leopard Print Cookies are sweet and tender; and their „animal print” design was a great idea to spoil my children (and their school mates, of course 🙂 ) I admit this recipe was quite challenging for me but the result is always worth it, because the joy and surprise that I see each time into the children’s eyes are priceless 🙂

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Ingredients Leopard Print Cookies

• 250 g soft butter (60% fats)
• 200 g powdered sugar
• 1 large egg
• 20 ml fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 600 g all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• a pinch of salt
• 3-4 tablespoons of dark cocoa

Directions Leopard Print Cookies

Sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Mix butter with sugar until creamy, then add egg, lemon juice and vanilla. You will get a hom*ogeneous, creamy composition.

Take 1/3 from this composition and mix it with 1 tablespoon of cocoa, then take 2/3 from the resulted light brown composition and mix it with the rest of cocoa in order to obtain the dark brown composition.

We have now three shades of composition: white, light brown and dark brown. Divide the dry mixture (flour, salt, baking soda) between the three shades (about 300 g for white, 180 g for light brown and 120 g for dark brown) and mix until they get a biscuit dough consistency. Add some more flour if needed. Wrap each of the three shades of dough in plastic foil and put them into the refrigerator for at least one hour. This resting period would make the dough more elastic and handle.

Roll the dark brown dough into a rectangle. Roll the light brown dough into a cylinder and wrap it into the dark brown dough, as seen in the pictures. Wrap this double cylinder (eventually cut in 2) in plastic foil ad place it into the freezer for 15 minutes.

Biscuits animal print

Preheat the oven at 175 Celsius. Prepare two baking trays and line them with baking paper.

Roll out the white dough on the table dusted with flour.

Take the cylinder from the freezer discard the plastic foil and cut it into thin slices. Spread these slices over the white dough sheet.

Cover with plastic foil and gently press the rolling pin all over so the brown dough discs to stick to the white dough sheet. Then remove the plastic foil ad cut the cookies using a round cookie cutter.

Place the cookies into the baking trays and bake them for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

These cookies can be stored into an air tight container up to 2 weeks.

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14 Comments

1. 

   Kathryn @ Family Food on the Table12 mai 2016 la 02:35 - Raspunde

   Aren’t you the sweetest mama?! I bet your kids were so excited for these – I know mine would love them! Such a fun idea 🙂

2. 

   sharona31 decembrie 2020 la 19:54 - Raspunde

   Hi, I want to make these but I don’t exactly understand the division when you are coloring the doughs. You take 1/3 of the whole thing with 1 TB cocoa, then where do you take the 2/3 from? What part remains white?

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     simonacallas1 ianuarie 2021 la 10:48 - Raspunde

     „Take 1/3 from this composition and mix it with 1 tablespoon of cocoa, then take 2/3 from the resulted light brown composition and mix it with the rest of cocoa in order to obtain the darker brown composition.”

3. 

   Sofía17 februarie 2021 la 16:08 - Raspunde

   Preciosas las galletas!!!! Voy a intentar hacerlas😀👍

4. 

   Heidi23 aprilie 2021 la 22:07 - Raspunde

   When you say “soft butter” does that mean at room temp and not cold or is it a specific kind of butter? Thank you for sharing, I can’t wait to make them.

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     simonacallas24 aprilie 2021 la 07:42 - Raspunde

     It’s just butter at room temperature. Thank you for feedback <3

5. 

   Christina6 august 2021 la 04:26 - Raspunde

   Love these! If you don’t want a lemon flavored cookie, are there any substitutions?

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     simonacallas6 august 2021 la 08:05 - Raspunde

     Sure. You can replace baking soda with baking powder (which doesn’t need an acid to activate) and instead of lemon juice you can use vanilla extract or any other flavor.

6. 

   Sissy14 iunie 2022 la 15:46 - Raspunde

   Should cocoa be unsweetened or sweetened? If it’s unsweetened, doesn’t the darkest brown need a little more sugar?

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     simonacallas14 iunie 2022 la 18:48 - Raspunde

     I usually use unsweetened cocoa. The sugar amount in this recipe is quite enough for our sweet tooth ❤ But feel free to add more sugar if you need so ❤

7. 

   Rachel7 octombrie 2022 la 12:38 - Raspunde

   Hello Thanks ’s for this lovely idea
   How many cookies do you réalisé with this recipe?

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     simonacallas7 octombrie 2022 la 17:01 - Raspunde

     It depends on the size. I got 14 cookies of 6 cm diameter. Thank you ❤️

8. 

   Reg26 iunie 2023 la 21:56 - Raspunde

   Hi, thanks for sharing the recipe. Shouldn’t it be 180 grams for the dark brown and 120 grams for the light brown?

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     simonacallas27 iunie 2023 la 09:35 - Raspunde

     It’s about the flour added into the composition. The light brown dough needs more flour in order to be lighter. I weighed the flour and the doughs carefully. Thank you so much for your kind comment ❤️. Please feel free to ask if my explanations aren’t clear enough ❤️.

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