April 4, 2009: Chocolate Mexican Marriage Ceremony Biscuits

thoroughly covered the savoury side, I prepared a dessert for the Tex Mex potluck. If MexicanDessertRecipes.net is anything to become by, many Mexican desserts involve custard and/or dulce de leche (a milk-based caramel) together with don't lend themselves to straightforward veganising (though it's past times no agency impossible!). Mexican marriage cookies, however, don't demand eggs together with I was especially taken past times this chocolate version. Chocolate's non the exclusively component that reeled me inward - I also liked the piece of job of cinnamon together with soil pecans. I made my ain grade on them past times adding a generous pinch of cardamom together with roughly chilli powder.

These didn't plough out quite equally I expected but were soundless pleasant enough. Lazy ol' me tried putting the chocolate inward the nutrient processor rather than grating it, together with most of the chocolate remained equally variety out speckles rather than disintegrating into the cookies. The spices made niggling impression at all. My biscuits turned out to live i of 3 Mexican marriage cookie submissions to the potluck (the others beingness traditional together with raw renditions, respectively), yet most of them were happily eaten. Dessert didn't halt there, either - at that topographic point were also churros alongside chocolate, chocolate-chilli together with margarita cupcakes, together with a piñata bursting alongside candy.

Chocolate Mexican marriage cookies
(inspired past times a recipe from MexicanDessrtRecipes.net)

1 loving cup Nuttelex
1/3 loving cup icing sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 3/4 cups evidently flour
1 loving cup soil pecans
1/2 loving cup chocolate, grated (I used nighttime 80% cocoa together with chucked it inward the nutrient processor)
3/4 teaspoon soil cinnamon
generous pinch of cardamom
scant pinch of chilli powder
pinch of salt
1/2 loving cup icing sugar, extra
1/4 loving cup grated chocolate, extra

Using an electrical mixer, cream together the Nuttelex together with carbohydrate until pale together with fluffy. Beat inward the vanilla.

In a variety out bowl stir together the flour, soil pecans, grated chocolate, cinnamon, cardamom, chilli pulverization together with salt.

Gradually trounce the dry out ingredients into the Nuttelex mixture, a few large spoonfuls at a time. Once everything's combined, it shouldn't live equally good hard to scoop the dough together into a ball using a spatula. Wrap the dough inward plastic together with refrigerate it for at to the lowest degree 1 hour, preferably two.

Preheat the oven to 180ºC, together with trouble a baking tray (or two) alongside baking paper. In a small-scale bowl, stir together the extra icing carbohydrate together with chocolate.

Pinch together with whorl the dough into balls nigh 1 inch inward diameter together with house them on the baking tray. Bake the biscuits for 15-18 minutes, until theatre to touch. Give them a infinitesimal or 2 to cool, together with therefore dredge them through the sugar/chocolate mixture earlier cooling them properly on a rack.