Saturday, January 11, 2020

Mexican Wedding Cakes = polvorones

Polvorones

ingredients

  • 2 sticks of butter 
  • 1 cup of chopped nuts (walnuts, or pecan, chia seeds etc )(optional) (one cup of chia seeds will be too much. Adjust yourself) 
  • 1/2 cup (or less) of granulated sugar
  •  2 cups of flour
  • lemon peel (optional) 
  • Pinch of baking powder 
  • some (about 1 cup ) of power sugar (we asians like as it is, without extra sugar). 

Preparation
  • preheat oven 330 F. 
  • melt butter in microwave
  • add nuts and sugar into melted butter, mix well
  • add flour and lemon peel, mix well
  • form into small balls, and place them on baking sheet (if difficult to handle, keep the dough in the fridge for a while) 
  • bake 330 F for 30 minutes or until cookies are done
  • wait a little but to cool cookies
  • roll these cookies into powdered sugar. 

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