Pan De Polvo Mexican Shortbread Recipes

KETO PAN DE POLVO

Steps:

• Place your cinnamon stick (and anise) into a cup. Add your boiling water and let it sit until it is room temperature.
• Place your butter, almond flour, baking powder and xanthan gum in a mixing bowl.
• Use a hand mixer (or do it by hand) to mix the butter and almond flour until it becomes a coarse, soft graham cracker type mix.
• Slowly pour in 1/4 cup (60ml) of the cool cinnamon/anise water into the dough. Make sure it is cool otherwise it will melt the butter.
• Use your hands to knead the almond flour into a smooth dough. Wrap in seran/cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Take out the dough and keep it in the seran/cling wrap while you use your hands to roll it into a long log shape.
• Take off the cling wrap and cut the log into pieces. It should make roughly 20 cookies.
• Place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 10-12 minutes at 350°F / 175°C
• While the cookies bake, whisk together the sugar substitute and cinnamon.
• Once the cookies come out of the oven, sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar and let cool.

HOJARASCAS

Steps:

• In a small pot, add 1 cup water and the cinnamon stick.
• Bring to a boil. Turn off heat and set aside.
• Let this cool completely.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, add the shortening and sugar.
• Mix well.
• Add salt, vanilla, cinnamon, and mix well.
• Turn mixer off.
• Add 1/2 of the flour. Mix only until combined.
• Turn mixer off again.
• Add the remaining 1/2 of the flour.
• Mix only until combined.
• Turn mixer off again.
• Add half of the cooled cinnamon tea.
• Turn mixer on low.
• Add only the amount of tea necessary to bring the dough together. About 1/2 cup.
• Turn mixer off and dust a clean surface and a rolling pin with flour.
• Place cookie dough on the surface and roll it out evenly.
• Cut out shapes using a cookies cutter.
• Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 15 minutes.
• Mix the sugar and ground cinnamon in a small bowl.
• Cool the cookies completely on a rack.
• Carefully and gently add each cookie to the bowl and cover with the sugar coating.
• Repeat until all the cookies have been coated.
• Makes about 45 cookies. Enjoy!

PAN DE POLVO (MEXICAN SHORTBREAD)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Cut shortening into flour until mixture resemble coarse corn meal.
• Add hot cinnamon and 1/4 cup anise tea and kneed dough until smooth.
• This will take a while.
• Roll dough into 1 inch diameter logs about 12 inch long.
• Cut logs into 1/4 in thick circles.
• Place close together on cookie sheet, but not touching.
• They spread very little to not at all.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until bottom side of cookie become lightly golden brown, and when cookie is cut in half, it looks baked all the way through.
• Combine granulated sugar and ground cinnamon.
• While cookies are still hot, roll each one in sugar and cinnamon coating with a fork until well coated.
• Place the cookies on cooling rack and cool completely.

PAN DE POLVO COOKIES - MEXICAN SHORTBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°
• Combine flour and sugar using a pastry blender, cut in shortening
• Add pecans
• Beat eggs and add to flour mixture
• Knead in a bowl and separate into 6 balls
• Work each ball individually. Roll to ¼ inch thickness and cut with tiny cookie cutters
• Bake 10-12 minutes.
• Roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture

PAN DE POLVO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, ½ cup of the confectioner's sugar, vanilla and almond extracts in a large bowl and mix for 3 minutes.
• Gradually add the flour and salt. Use the mixer for the first cup of flour and then work in the remaining flour and finely chopped pecans by hand with a wooden spoon. Dough will be stiff.
• Form dough into balls (l level tablespoon each) and flatten to a coin shape. Place on ungreased baking sheet, 1 inch apart. Bake at 325° F on middle oven rack until light golden brown, 15-20 minutes.
• Let cookies stand for about 1 minute. Place the remaining sugar in a shallow dish. Roll the cookies in the sugar to coat completely. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.