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Bring the butter, egg, and cream cheese to room temperature.
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Melt the strawberry flavored chocolate in a double boiler.
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Combine the ingredients (cake flour, katakuriko, almond powder, and salt) in a bowl and instead of sifting, whisk briskly with a whisk.
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Whisk unsalted butter and cream cheese until creamy, add lemon juice and whisk well again.
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Add sugar and whisk until it looks white.
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Add the egg yolk and melted chocolate to the bowl from Step 3 and whisk again.
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Add the dry ingredients from Step 2.
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Using a spatula, mix the dough in a cut and fold motion.
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When the dough is crumbly, pack it together with your hands, and fold in the dough by pressing down with your hands until the dry ingredients have been well integrated.
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Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
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Preheat the oven to 170C.
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Take out the chilled dough to form into shapes.
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Roll the dough into coin-sized balls in the palms of your hands.
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Press down on them slightly before organizing them in rows on a parchment-lined baking tray, with space in between.
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Make sure that there are no cracks on the surface of the dough.
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Bake in the preheated 170C oven for 20 minutes (I use an electrical stove).
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Let the cookies cool on the tray, and you're all done.
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You can enjoy them as they are, or coat them in powdered sugar.
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Melt chocolate in a double boiler (if you temper the chocolate, it'll bring out the shine).
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Dip half of the cookies into the chocolate.
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Let the coating harden while resting the cookies on a rack.
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Before the chocolate hardens completely, decorate your cookies with sprinkles or dragees.
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I've added food coloring to the cookies shown here.
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You can also make chocolate-coated cookies by drizzling on the tempered strawberry chocolate with your right hand, while holding a cookie on a fork with your left hand.
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I drew on these cookies with a decoration pen once the coating hardened.
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You can use a toothpick to draw fine lines.
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Little pigs are a cute choice, as well as...
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puppies, pandas, or...
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if you get tired, feel free to draw random designs...
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Please try out different designs.
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Just as a reference, I was able to decorate 10 cookies using 40 g of strawberry flavored chocolate for the coating.
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[For the pink colored dough] The cookies will have a light hue, so if you want a bolder color like I've shown in Step 11, add diluted food coloring at Step 4.
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(Step 18 continued) If using food coloring, cover the cookies midway through baking to prevent browning.
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Instead of using decorating pens, I used mini chocolate chips for the eyes.
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These piggies are looking sexy with their falsies.
