For lovers of cuisine, especially pastry, those who do not mind spending hours inventing how to surprise with the star dish of this Christmas, stay away from the classic desserts, if you have reached the end of dinner, there where almost everyone arrives without hunger, surprise all your guests with some great mantecados made by you. From Dulces La Ponderosa we leave you the best shortbread recipes to make this Christmas. Discover them!

Homemade mantecado

At Dulces La Ponderosa we bet on the flavor of tradition, therefore it could not be any other way than to start with the recipe for the ice cream of a lifetime.

What do we need?

• 2 eggs one for the dough and one for painting the mantecados
• 250 gr. toasted and ground almonds
• 250 gr. lard
• 250 gr. of oil
• 250 gr. icing sugar
• 800 gr. Of flour
• Pinions
• Sugar to decorate

Steps to follow

• Step 1: Prepare the dough

We break the egg into a container, beat it, then add the sugar, the oil and continue mixing, add the lard and the ground almond

• Step 2: Add the flour

Once we have the homogeneous dough, we knead with our hands and add the sifted flour with the help of a strainer and knead again with our hands. Let the dough stand about 30 minutes

• Step 3: Shape

With the help of a rolling pin, roll out the dough and start making the shape that we like the most, if you want to get away from the traditional one, we recommend using molds of different shapes to give them a more fun look.

• Step 4: to decorate

We place the mantecados on a baking tray, we paint them with beaten egg so that they are more golden, we pour dusted sugar and we place the pine nuts

• Step 5: Bake

With the oven preheated to 160 degrees, let it bake for 15 minutes, then take it out, cool and ready.

Cinnamon Mantecado

What do we need?

• 150g flour
• 75g icing sugar
• 75g of lard
• 50g of ground almonds
• 1 large tablespoon of cinnamon

We follow all the steps the same as for the traditional ice cream (except in the decoration if we want to change the pine nuts for an almond, or almond crocanti …), it is right in Step 2 where we have to integrate the large spoonful of cinnamon and then continue with the procedure.

Chocolate Ice Cream

For those with a sweet tooth, chocolate lovers can certainly not miss the chocolate ice cream on the table of Christmas sweets. It is really easy, the whole process is the same, only instead of cinnamon, we will use 20 grams of cocoa powder. Although it is true that in many recipes for all the mantecados they add, in this one almost yes, a teaspoon of cinnamon so that they take on the flavor, but that is already depending on your taste.

Lemon Mantecado

The mixture of citrus fruits such as lemon or orange with the sweet of the mantecado is also one of the classic bets. To make your homemade lemon butter, add 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice and zest of the peel to the base ingredients (flour, lard, icing sugar, ground almonds). Follow all the steps as is and add the new ingredients in step 2.