dessert

Santa Clara Cookies

Name: Santa Clara Cookies
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 24 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 1 4-ounce stick unsalted butter (at room temperature, sliced); 1 cup confectioners' sugar; 1/4 teaspoon baking powder; 3 cups flour (plus more for rolling out the dough); 3 egg yolks; 1/2 cup lukewarm water; 2 cups sugar; 1/2 cup water; 3 cups hulled and unsalted pumpkin seeds (may substitute with blanched and slivered almonds); 1/2 cup milk; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder or baking soda

You know what happens when you eat a Santa Clara Cookie? When you first bite into it, you go through a soft layer with grainy texture that tastes like a moist version of marzipan. But as your teeth sink in they hit the hard crust of a buttery cookie that breaks into the crunchiest of chunks in your mouth. It makes for such tasty contrast that you have to take more bites to understand their beauty. Since one cookie doesn’t explain it, you will reach for another one…

Prep 50m

Cook 10m

Yield 24 servings

Source: patijinich.com

🥄 Ingredients

1 4-ounce stick unsalted butter (at room temperature, sliced)
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
3 cups flour (plus more for rolling out the dough)
3 egg yolks
1/2 cup lukewarm water
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
3 cups hulled and unsalted pumpkin seeds (may substitute with blanched and slivered almonds)
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon baking powder or baking soda

👨‍🍳 Instructions

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