Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, biscochitos. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is New Mexico's traditional cookie. A great thick sugar cookie that is dusted with cinnamon-sugar. The traditional shape is fleur-de-lis, but use your favorite cookie cutters if you like.
Biscochitos is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Biscochitos is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have biscochitos using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Biscochitos:
- Take flour
- Get baking powder
- Get salt
- Make ready crushed anise seed
- Prepare Zest of 1 orange
- Prepare lard (or shortening)
- Prepare sugar
- Prepare large egg
- Get vanilla extract
- Take TOPPING-cinnamon/sugar mix
Beat in eggs one at a time. Mix in flour and brandy until well blended. Cream the lard with sugar and anise seed on medium speed. In a separate bowl. beat eggs until light and fluffy.
Steps to make Biscochitos:
- Combine flour, baking soda, salt, anise seed, Zest.
- In a mixing bowl beat sugar, and lard(or shortening) Add egg/vanilla and beat.
- Gradually beat in flour mix.
- Refrigerate 1hr or more.
- Put dough into a cookie press(or roll out and cut with cookie cutter)
- Press onto a parchment lined cookie sheet. Prepare topping in a separate bowl.
- Bake for about 8-9 minutes (for rolled out cooking bake about 10-12 minutes)
- Watch these cookies they brown easily!!
- Take out of oven, wait about a minute or two so you can lift the cookie without it crumbling (but it must still be warm!!)
- Dip into cinnamon sugar mix.
- Note-I could not find crushed/ground anise. I bought regular anise seeds and used a coffee grinder-in bursts, they are light!
- Note-better with lard, but you may use Vegetable shortening instead(I used crisco)
Add beaten eggs to creamed mixture. A Classic Biscochitos Recipe The New Mexico state cookie, an anise- and cinnamon-scented delight, is served at every December gathering short of a fast-food breakfast. Lori Delgado shares this scrumptious recipe, which began with Agnes Trujillo, a friend of her mother-in-law, Angie's. Biscochito (or bizcochito) is a crispy butter cookie flavored with anise and cinnamon. It was developed, by residents of New Mexico, over the centuries from the first Spanish colonists of New Mexico.
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