Peanut Cookies

Ingredients

Method

• These cookies are from Veracruz, where peanuts are produced. They can be served for breakfast, a mid-morning snack or after dinner with coffee, hot chocolate or atole.
• RECIPE INGREDIENTS
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 7 tablespoons lard
• 1 egg
• 3 1/2 oz peanuts, shelled, skinned, toasted, and ground to a paste in a food processor
• 2/3 cup sugar
• DIRECTIONS
• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F .
• Sift the flour with the baking powder onto a clean surface. Make a well in the center and add the lard and egg. Combine the ingredients with your fingers to make a smooth dough. Add the peanut paste and knead the dough lightly.
• Roll the dough into balls about the size of a walnut and put them on a greased cookie sheet 3 inches apart. Flatten the balls slightly. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until they turn a light golden brown.
• Remove them from the oven and sprinkle generously with sugar while they are still warm.

Notes

• SOURCE: The Mexican Gourmet