Galletas Elena (Mexican Cookies)
photo by Deantini
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
2 1/2 dozen
- Serves:
- 30
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1⁄2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 cup nonpareils
directions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Beat the butter, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla extract together.
- Combine the flour, baking powder and salt, and sift them into the butter mixture. Stir to make a smooth dough.
- Shape the dough into small balls. Poke your thumb in the center of each ball to make a hole, and shape into rings.
- Dip each ring in nonpareils.
- Bake on lightly greased cookie sheets for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly browned.
- Cool before storing.
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Reviews
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A nice basic cookie, with easy attractive decorating options. I use margarine, rather than butter - the cookies flattened a little in the oven, but were still tasty. We played around with other decorations besides nonpareils, and decided we like the mexican coarse-grained sugar best. (Cocoa/cinammon was tasty, but not very attractive.)
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We loved these cookies! They had a nice vanilla flavor. They were kind of like buttery sugar cookies. My little girl had fun decorating them but beware- the dough is soft and needs to be chilled for about 2 hours in order to roll it inot the little balls. We ended up with 22 cookies so I guess I made them a little bigger than I was supposed to. Made for ZWT5 for the Kitchen Witches.