Spanish Polvorones Recipe
Take your taste buds on a journey with this traditional Spanish cookie, polvorones! Follow our easy step-by-step recipe and impress your family and friends.
Equipment
- Bowls
- Baking tray
- Sieve
- Film
- Paper
Ingredients
- 500 g all-purpose flour
- 230 g lard
- 100 g confectioner’s sugar
- 1 tbsp rum
- 1 tbsp cinnamon powder
Nutrition
Calories: 139kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 0.5g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.04g | Sodium: 4mg | Potassium: 76mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 0.2g | Vitamin A: 826IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 2mg
Servings: 14 polvorones
Calories: 139kcal
Notes
- Polvorones refer to the word “dust” in Spanish - meaning that they crumble super quickly, so be careful when handling them because they will definitely crumble in your hands - and melt in your mouth!
- This is the basic recipe and flavor - but you can also combine them with different flavors and add bits of nuts, almonds, lemon zest, or other liquors.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 130ºC.
- Spread the all-purpose flour over a tray and bake for 1 hour - the idea is to get it as dry as possible. Stir every 10 minutes or so, so that it doesn’t stick.
- Transfer the flour to a big bowl and sift it with a sieve. Add the lard, sugar, rum, and cinnamon powder.
- Combine all the ingredients until you get a dough that you can shape with your hands.
- Transfer the dough to a film-covered tray and make a log of about 2 inches in diameter.
- Cover the log completely with the film and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Remove the log from the fridge and cut the polvorones (around 1 inch thick).
- Transfer the polvorones to a baking tray and bake for 10 minutes. Remove them from the oven and let them get completely cold before trying to manipulate them.
- Coat them with confectioner’s sugar and wrap them in the paper.
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