Chickpea mice

Ingredients:

Dough:

350 gram Plain Wheat Flour 

40 gram Sugar

80 ml Water

1 Egg

2 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

Filling:

1 cup Canned Chickpea, drained

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

1/8 teaspoon Sea Salt

Decoration:

2 gram Cocoa Powder

Almond Flakes

2 tablespoons Cold Milk

instruction:

1. Mix together the chickpea with the brown sugar.  Let it sit for an hour.

2. Reheat the chickpea in an microwave.  When the chickpea is steaming hot, mash it with a potato mash with all the syrup, until it become paste.

3. To dry up the excessive syrup in the mashed chickpea and form a right consitency, heat the mashed chickpea in the microwave for 2 minute at a time, for about 6 to 7 minutes.  Stir it well between each heat.  The chickpea should be like wet sand.

  

4. Form a spoonful of chickpea into an olive shape.  it should be firm and not crumbly.  Finish forming all the chickpea as the filling.  Cover them with a damp towel and let them set aside.

5. In a medium bowl, mix together all the ingredients for the dough and form a slightly sticky dough.  Take a small piece of dough to mix with the cocoa.

6. Wet your hands again.  Take a piece of the white dough and stretch it until it is big enough to wrap a piece of the filling.  Seal it carefully.  Place the dough on a baking tray with the seal downward.

7. Reshape the head part of the mouse into a slight trangle.  Inset two pieces of almond flakes as the ears and stick three bean-size of cocoa doughs on the face as the eyes and the nose.  Randomly rib a thin layer of cocoa-water mixture on the body part to create the contrast of the hair.

8.  Bake the buns in the pre-heated oven at 180C/ 360F for 5 minutes.  After the outer layer of the buns dried up, brush a thin layer of cold milk on each and then bring them back to the oven to bake for another 10 minutes.  Serve in warm.