{"id":3849,"date":"2011-12-15T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2014-11-16T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:32:29","slug":"bake-it-pan-de-polvo-mexican-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/bake-it-pan-de-polvo-mexican-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bake it: Pan de Polvo (Mexican cookies!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good evening, lovelies! How are your Christmas preparations coming along? TEN DAYS LEFT! Ah! I can hardly believe it. We actually JUST got our tree up the other day and I’ve only wrapped one gift. We’ve been buying a lot online and so it comes to us in a box and…well, there hasn’t been a reason for us to wrap those, you know? I’ll eventually make them pretty, but right now my boys can’t see what they’re getting so it’s ok.<\/p>\n

ANYWAY, I am here with a recipe! I’ll share a few with you over the next week or so. My aunt is hosting a cookie exchange this weekend, so I’m trying some recipes out. Three or so. I hope you enjoy this first one, as it took a while to get down. <\/p>\n

Let me start at the beginning? Another aunt of mine always makes the best pan de polvo cookies. They’re a Mexican tradition around Christmas time and at weddings. I asked for the recipe and she struck me DOWN, guys. Apparently her’s is a secret. I don’t mess with that, so I moved on. I checked online and there are so many variations, I didn’t know how to narrow it down. <\/p>\n

Fast forward to this past weekend and my GRANDPA shares this one he uses. He knew it by memory! I changed it only slightly to add in some extra spice, but yah…here it is! They pretty scrumptious.<\/p>\n

NOTE<\/b>: This recipe yield A LOT. Like, over 10 dozen in the size I made, more if you roll out your dough and make smaller cookies. You could halve it or even third it and still get a substantial amount. I made the whole thing, split my dough in thirds and refrigerated it for another day. We have a lot of Christmas parties to go to, so I’m SURE it will be used up. Sharing is caring.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Ingredients<\/b>
\n1 teaspoon anise seed
\n3 cinnamon sticks<\/p>\n

3 cups of sugar, separated (2c + 1c)
\n3 lbs vegetable shortening
\n5 lbs all purpose flour
\n1 teaspoon ground cinnamon plus 1 tablespoon, separated
\n1 teaspoon salt\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pre-heat your oven to 375F.<\/p>\n

Place the cinnamon sticks and anise into 1.5 cups of water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and strain. Set aside to cool.<\/p>\n

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\nCombine 2 cups of sugar and the shortening. Mix well.
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\nIn a separate bowl, mix flour, salt and cinnamon. Add the flour mixture to your sugar mixture 1-2 cups at a time. This makes A LOT of dough and you may need to put it into a bigger bowl. It will slightly resemble pie crust dough. <\/p>\n

Slowly add in the cinnamon anise tea (up to 1 cup). Mix it very well, getting the tea to permeate the entire dough. <\/p>\n

Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. You can wrap two and put them in the fridge for later, or the next day. I’m also told you can freeze it, but I haven’t tried.<\/p>\n

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\nForm into balls, using a cookie scoop to measure the size. <\/p>\n

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\nI like to roll it and press it into a disk about 1.5″ wide and half an inch thick.<\/p>\n

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\nEvenly space them on a cookie sheet (I could fit 15 on mine) and bake them for about 20 minutes or until they turn light brown on the edges. WATCH THEM! <\/p>\n

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While the cookies are baking, make a cinnamon-sugar mixture. My ratio is 1.5 tablespoon of cinnamon for every cup. You can add more\/less cinnamon if you like. It’s up to you!<\/p>\n

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\nWhile the cookies are still warm, gently toss them in the sugar mixture. <\/p>\n

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\nPlace them on a rack to finish cooling. They taste best the next morning. It’s a crumbly delightful cookie. Great with a hot cup of coffee or perhaps some Mexican hot chocolate<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

\nIngredients<\/b>
\n1 teaspoon anise seed
\n3 cinnamon sticks<\/p>\n

3 cups of sugar, separated (2c + 1c)
\n3 lbs vegetable shortening
\n5 lbs all purpose flour
\n1 teaspoon ground cinnamon plus 1 tablespoon, separated
\n1 teaspoon salt<\/p>\n

Pre-heat your oven to 375F.<\/p>\n

Directions<\/b>
\nPlace the cinnamon sticks and anise into 1.5 cups of water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and strain. Set aside to cool.<\/p>\n

Combine 2 cups of sugar and the shortening. Mix well.<\/p>\n

In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt and cinnamon. <\/p>\n

Add the flour mixture to your sugar mixture 1-2 cups at a time. [This makes A LOT of dough and you may need to put it into a bigger bowl.] It will slightly resemble pie crust dough.<\/p>\n

Slowly add in the cinnamon anise tea (up to 1 cup). Mix it very well, getting the tea to permeate the entire dough.<\/p>\n

Divide the dough into 3 equal parts. You can wrap two and put them in the fridge for later, or the next day. I\u2019m also told you can freeze it, but I haven\u2019t tried.<\/p>\n

Form into balls, using a cookie scoop to measure the size. I like to roll it and press it into a disk about 1.5\u2033 wide and half an inch thick.<\/p>\n

Evenly space them on a cookie sheet (I could fit 15 on mine) and bake them for about 20 minutes or until they turn light brown on the edges. WATCH THEM!<\/p>\n

While the cookies are baking, make a cinnamon-sugar mixture. My ratio is 1.5 tablespoon of cinnamon for every cup. You can add more\/less cinnamon if you like. It\u2019s up to you! While the cookies are still warm, gently toss them in the sugar mixture.<\/p>\n

Place them on a rack to finish cooling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Good evening, lovelies! How are your Christmas preparations coming along? TEN DAYS LEFT! Ah! I can hardly believe it. We actually JUST got our tree up the other day and I’ve only wrapped one gift. We’ve been buying a lot online and so it comes to us in a box and…well, there hasn’t [Read More…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,115],"tags":[235,53,76,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}