Pigs for Luck in the New Year

Glücksschweinchen or lucky pigs are often found on New Years Eve or the frist day of the New Year.

This is a Thermomix recipe and I used mine to prepare the dough. The dough recipe is for 16 pigs. But you will have the scraps left over. I froze them to use as a bottom of a future cake.

The dough needs to rest in a warm place for 1 hour. Then roll it out 1/2 cm thick and use 2 cutters or glasses with 8 cm and 3 cm. The eggwash is not only for the shine, but it acts as glue as well.

Recipe for 16 pigs:

500 g AP flour

21 g fresh yeast

100 g butter

70 g sugar

Zest of 1 lemon

Pinch of salt

250 ml whole milk

2 eggs

Raisins

Put milk, sugar, butter, yeast and salt in the Thermomix. On speed 2, 2,5 min, 37 C

Add lemon mixed in flour. Use dough function for 3 min. Put the dough in a large bowl, cover it with a damp towel and put it in a warm plave to double in size.

Beat the eggs and count 32 raisins.

Flour a surface and roll out the dough. Use the cutters to make 1 head and 3 small discs. Brush the big circle with egg, place the 3 small discs for ears and snout. Use a toothpick to make 2 holes in the snout. Brush everything with egg again and set the raisins in.

Bake at 175 C for 20 min.