Cake eleven - Dough friends

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This is a delicious sweet dough you can easily mould into any shape you like. You can use it for wrtings too, like my ‘Benvenuti’ for example! I personally love dough writing... It makes me feel like a child playing with Dido!

Your ‘dough friends’ can be brownish, the colour of bread, or you can have fun colouring them with the brightest colours. What you only need is to set your fancy free!

600 gr flour

40 gr yeast

1/4l lukewarm water

100 gr butter (melted)

2 eggs

a pinch of salt

60 gr sugar

grated lemon rind (1 lemon)

1 extra egg

Put flour, yeast and sugar in a large bowl, add milk. Combine yeast, milk, some sugar and some flour. and mix to a small dough ball. Cover, stand in warm place for about 15 min. Stir in the melted butter, eggs, salt and lemon rind. Mix all the ingredients very well, cover and stand in warm place fur further 15 min.  

Make your own your paper templates, use parchment paper and it won't stick to dough!
(You'll find my templates in the page)

Turn dough onto floured surface, knead until smooth. Roll dough to about 1 cm thick. Cut out your ‘friends’, whisk egg and brush them. Stand in warm place for 15 min. 

Bake at 180° for 10-15 min.

Decoration 
Icing 

You can choose between two types of icing: 

Royal icing

1 egg white- 200 gr icing sugar 

Put the egg white in a bowl or in a and whisk lightly to break it up. Work in the icing sugar until the icing has a thick and smooth consistency that just holds its shape.. This icing is very good for details.

Beat in any food colouring adding a little at a time until the desired shade is reached.

Glacé icing 

200 gr icing sugar - 4 teaspoons water 

Combine icing sugar and water until smooth. Add water a little at a time until the consistency is smooth and the icing just holds its shape. This is the simplest icing to make and can be used for broader surfaces before adding further decorations, but it doesn’t hold its shape as well as royal icing.

Parchment paper templates

Here are the two stencils I've made for my 'Dough friends'

also visit:
http://time-for-a-cake.blogspot.it/2012/09/dough-friend-i-wouldnt-call-this-cake.html