Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pan de polvo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pan De Polvo is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pan De Polvo is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Pan De Polvo (Mexican Shortbread) Recipe by Ernesto Carreon. Pan de Polvo is traditionally served at Christmas, Weddings, and Quinceneras. Pan de Polvo improve in flavor after a few days.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pan de polvo using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Pan De Polvo:

1. Take 2 pounds Flour
2. Make ready 2 1/2 Cups Vegetable Shortening
3. Get 6 Cinnamon Sticks
4. Get 4 tablespoons Anise Seeds
5. Prepare 2 Cups Water
6. Get 3 1/2 Cups Sugar
7. Make ready 1/4 Cup Ground Cinnamon

These cookies are very popular for a good reason - they're DELICIOUS! Very simple to make, just make sure to coat them in the cinnamon sugar mixture while still warm so it melts into the cookies. Pan de Polvo, translated means powdered bread and while many will think of cookies covered in powdered sugar, pan de polvo is a very soft cookie that crumbles easily. They are coated in cinnamon, sugar, and anise.

Steps to make Pan De Polvo:

1. Add the shortening and the flour in a big bowl, begin kneading the dough until it resembles course corn meal.
2. On a small pot boil the 2 cups of water, the anise seeds, cinnamon sticks and optional 1/2 cup of sugar.
3. Slowly begin adding the anise tea to the flour, in 1/4 cup intervals and knead the dough until it's soft and not sticky to your skin. You may not need all the anise tea.
4. In a container with a lid mix 3 cups of granulated sugar and 1/4 cup ground cinnamon, this will be the coating for when the cookies are out of the oven.
5. Roll out the dough, not too thin nor too thick because then it won't cook all the way use a cookie cutter if you would like a certain shape. Bake at 375 degrees, 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. If unsure if cooked throughout cut a cookie in half - it should crumble.
6. This is important! The cookies should be out of the oven and immediately put in the container with the sugar and ground cinnamon so the heat can cause the mixture to stick!

Traditional Sugar Shortbread (Pan de Polvo) Recipe Submitted By Melissa Guerra. Simple tea cookies take on a velvety texture that melts in your mouth and then are rolled in a warm topping of sugar and cinnamon. Mix up the batter, roll out the dough, use cookie cutters for a uniform shape, bake off, and enjoy. Pan de Polvo - buttery, crumbly, melt in your mouth Mexican shortbread biscuits. I'm always in a mood for a shortbread , especially for Christmas.

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