Mexican Dessert Recipes
Mexican Painted Cookies
Mexican painted cookies are a combination of a basic vanilla and almond flavored cookie and an attractively painted top. You can get as creative as you like with these and use a variety of colors. These hand painted cookies are fun to make, even for kids, and they taste great.
You can use a small, clean watercolor paintbrush to paint these cookies, cleaning the brush in plain water between colors. If the paint thickens while you are still using it, you can stir in a drop of water at a time until it thins again. You can paint one color on top of another for a marbled effect but leave a narrow strip of cookie between the painted areas if you want to keep the colors separate.
Authentic Mexican Hand Painted Cookies
Ingredients -
2 cups white sugar
For the Egg Paint:
1 egg yolk
1 cup butter
2 eggs
4 cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
½ teaspoon almond flavoring
½ teaspoon salt
2 or 3 different food colorings
¼ teaspoon water
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 375ºF.
Cream the butter, adding the sugar bit by bit.
Beat this until it is fluffy and light. Beat in the eggs gradually. Blend in the vanilla and almond flavorings. Sift the flour with the baking powder and salt. Add slowly to the creamed mixture.
Split the dough into three portions and chill it for easier handling. Roll one part at a time out on a lightly floured surface to a ¼ inch thickness. Use a 5 inch diameter cookie cutter to cut the cookies.
Transfer them to a baking sheet using a wide spatula.
Bake the cookies for 10 or 12 minutes, until golden brown, then cool them on a wire rack. Mix the egg yolk and water to make the paint. Divide the mixture and add different food colorings. You can paint the designs on the cookies using a clean paintbrush. Painting them is great fun for kids (as is eating them!)
(Makes 14)
