Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, biscochitos. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Biscochitos is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Biscochitos is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Biscochitos are New Mexico's State Cookies! And for good reason, they are buttery, sweet, and spiced just right. Reviews for: Photos of Biscochitos Traditional Cookies.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook biscochitos using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Biscochitos:
- Get 3 cups flour
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 3 tsp crushed anise seed
- Make ready Zest of 1 orange
- Make ready 2 1/4 cup lard (or shortening)
- Get 3/4 sugar
- Take 1 large egg
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take TOPPING-cinnamon/sugar mix
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Instructions 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)
Traditional Mexican wedding cookies, empanadas, and more, proudly made in Las Cruces, NM. New Mexico was the first state to recognize an official state cookie symbol. Directions: Cream shortening, sugar and anise seed. Mix in egg, milk, brandy flavoring and salt. There's nothing else quite like our official state cookie, the biscochito, bizcochito, or biscocho. variants: or less commonly biscochito \ ˌbē- skō- ˈchē- tō . plural bizcochitos also biscochitos.
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