World Flavors Cookbook

Grybai (Mushroom Cookies)

Name: Grybai (Mushroom Cookies)
Cook time: 15 min
Cuisine: Lithuania
Ingredients: For dough: honey, sugar, butter, eggs, flour, cinnamon, cloves. For glaze: egg whites, powdered sugar, cocoa (for the caps), poppy seeds (for the stems).

Spiced honey cookies shaped and glazed to look exactly like forest mushrooms.

Cuisine: Lithuania

Ingredients

For dough: honey, sugar, butter, eggs, flour, cinnamon, cloves. For glaze: egg whites, powdered sugar, cocoa (for the caps), poppy seeds (for the stems).

Instructions

1. Bake the stems and caps separately using special molds or hand-shaping. 2. Glue them together with glaze. 3. Dip the caps in cocoa-tinted glaze. 4. Dip the stems in white glaze and then in poppy seeds to resemble forest soil. 5. Let dry completely.