Biscochitos

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These not-too-sweet, anise-flavored Mexican treats hap to beryllium New Mexico’s authoritative authorities cookie. Lard makes for an particularly crisp and airy texture, but rootlike shortening tin beryllium utilized instead.

You’ll request 1 oregon 2 2-inch cooky cutters, preferably stars and half-moons. And you whitethorn get an adjacent greater output depending connected which shapes you use.

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The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 1 hour, and up to 1 day. The cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 1 week, oregon frozen for up to 1 month. You whitethorn person cinnamon sweetener near over; it's not pugnacious to find ways to usage that up.

From the December 2001 contented of Martha Stewart Living.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 72, utilizing fractional the cinnamon sugar)

• Calories

  70

• Fat

  4 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  8 g

• Sodium

  10 mg

• Cholesterol

  5 mg

• Sugar

  4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From the December 2001 contented of Martha Stewart Living.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick and Barbara Strack.