Easter lamb

Everyone is trying to prepare the best dishes for the Easter holiday. We decorate the festive table with a very tasty fragrant lamb - a symbol of innocence and meekness. It is believed that a sweet lamb on the Easter table brings happiness, health and good luck to the house! Cook these lambs with your children - this will make the holiday unforgettable!

Ingredients

• flour 500 g
• sugar 250 g
• dry yeast 11 g
• butter 100 g
• egg 1 pc.
• lemon zest 1 pc.
• milk 200 ml
• vanilla to taste
• For decoration:
• icing sugar 100 g
• sesame seeds (for eyes)

Directions

1. Cut out lamb templates from cardboard. Knead the dough: Dissolve the yeast in 2-3 tbsp. l. warm milk and 2 tsp. Sahara.
2. Add diluted yeast to the sifted flour, all the other ingredients: warm milk, sugar, vanilla, lemon zest, salt, egg. At the end, add butter and knead the dough. We remove it in a warm place until the volume increases by 2-3 times).
3. Cooking Easter lambs
4. Knead the dough on baking paper or a silicone mat, roll out a 1 cm thick layer. Put a template on top and cut a lamb along it. You can lightly grease the lamb with whipped egg white. Roll the dough into balls and place tightly over the entire body of the lamb, leaving the legs and muzzle free. Sesame is an eye. You can brush the surface of the lamb with yolk mixed with milk.
5. Easter lamb ready to serve
6. We bake at 175-180 degrees for about 30 minutes. Put the finished lambs on a wire rack, cool and decorate to your taste: whipped protein with sugar, powdered sugar. The Easter lamb is ready!