Mexican Cookies
A polvorón that crumbles between your tongue and the roof of your mouth. A galleta de boda — Mexican wedding cookie — rolled in powdered sugar. The Mexican cookie is small, fragile, and dressed for a celebration.
Featured mexican cookies recipes
- Polvorones, melt-on-tongue — Iris · Mexico City · Almond shortbread rolled in powdered sugar. Crumbles before you bite.
- Galletas de boda, wedding cookies — Iris · Monterrey · Pecan shortbreads rolled hot in powdered sugar. The cookie at every Mexican wedding.
- Biscochitos, anise-cinnamon — Iris · Santa Fe / Mexico City · A lard shortbread with anise. The state cookie of New Mexico. Older than the border.
- Rosquitas de anís, anise rings — Iris · Mexico City · Small fried anise rings dipped in a thin sugar glaze.
- Galletas de azúcar, sugar cookies — Iris · Mexico City · A vanilla-sugar cookie with crinkled top. Eaten with hot chocolate.
- Cochinitos de piloncillo, gingerbread pigs — Iris · Oaxaca · Piloncillo, cinnamon, anise. Dark, soft, animal-shaped. The corner-store cookie.
- Obleas, wafer rounds — Iris · Mexico City · Thin wafers sandwiched with cajeta — goat-milk caramel — at the street corner.
- Churro cookies, baked — Iris · Mexico City · The cinnamon-sugar of a churro on a soft butter cookie. The American export.
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