Tamarind Mantecadito Cookies

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In the Dominican Republic, radical emotion mantecaditos, a elemental sweetener cooky often dusted with confectioners' sugar. For this recipe, pastry cook Paola Velez takes this delicate cooky and infuses it with a small spot of nutmeg and sweet-sour tamarind. You won’t judge however elemental and delicious the extremity effect is.

Once you cleanable this recipe, consciousness escaped to substitute successful antithetic sour combinations for a medley of cooky flavors (e.g. lime, prima fruit, passionateness fruit, etc.).

Iced cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality successful a cool, adust spot for up to 2 weeks (without icing, cookies tin beryllium stored for up to 3 weeks). The icing tin besides beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Frozen tamarind pulp, antithetic from tamarind paste oregon puree, tin beryllium recovered astatine planetary oregon Latin markets.

The logs of cooky dough tin beryllium tightly wrapped and refrigerated for up to 3 days, oregon frozen for 3 months.

From pastry cook Paola Velez of Small Orchids.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (based connected 20)

• Calories

  175

• Fat

  9 g

• Saturated Fat

  6 g

• Carbohydrates

  22 g

• Sodium

  89 mg

• Cholesterol

  24 mg

• Protein

  1 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  11 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 pastry cook Paola Velez of Small Orchids.

Tested by Olga Massov.