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Polvorones Sugar Cookies

Name: Polvorones Sugar Cookies
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: ~1 cup butter; ~¾ cups sugar; ~½ cup powdered sugar; ~¼ tsp salt; ~1 tsp Mexican vanilla blend; 1 egg; ~1 tsp baking powder; ~2 cups flour; ~¼ cups sugar or sprinkles for coating

⏱ 45 min

A traditional Mexican sugar cookie recipe for polvorones. Made by creaming butter with sugar, adding egg and Mexican vanilla, then incorporating flour and baking powder. After chilling, the dough is shaped into balls, dipped in sugar or sprinkles for decoration, and baked until golden.

Adapted from a video by Cooking Con Claudia

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Ingredients

butter~1 cupest.
sugar~¾ cupsest.
powdered sugar~½ cupest.
salt~¼ tspest.
Mexican vanilla blend~1 tspest.
egg1
baking powder~1 tspest.
flour~2 cupsest.
sugar or sprinkles for coatingfor decorating cookies~¼ cupsest.

Steps

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1
Cream the butter on medium speed until smooth and creamy.
2
Add sugar, powdered sugar, and salt to the creamed butter and beat until well combined, about one minute.
3
Mix in the Mexican vanilla blend and egg until fully incorporated.
4
Add baking powder and mix in completely.
5
Stir in flour and, once the dough begins to form, remove it from the mixer and shape it into a ball by hand.
6
Chill the dough ball in the refrigerator for 5 minutes while preheating the oven to 350°F.
7
Remove dough from refrigerator and pinch off portions in the size desired. Keep them in ball shape and dip into plain sugar or sprinkles to coat as desired.
8
Place shaped and coated cookies on a baking sheet, repeating until all dough is used.
9
Bake at 350°F for 12 to 15 minutes until cookies are done.
10
Remove cookies from oven and allow them to cool for 10 to 15 minutes before serving.

Polvorones Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

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