Best 5 Mexican Bizcochitos Crusty Sweet Biscuit Recipes

BISCOCHITOS

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Cream the lard with sugar and anise seed on medium speed. In a separate bowl. beat eggs until light and fluffy. Add beaten eggs to creamed mixture. Mix together well, adding wine to form a stiff-like dough, add more wine, if necessary.
• Refrigerate dough overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Remove dough from refrigerator and let stand for a while, until dough is soft enough to roll. Divide dough in quarters and roll to about 1/16 to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter and place on cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until bottom of cookie is golden brown. Meanwhile, mix together the sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Drop the baked cookies into sugar and cinnamon mixture and set aside to cool.

BISCOCHITOS TRADITIONAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl, and set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the lard and 1 1/2 cups sugar until smooth. Mix in the anise seed, and beat until fluffy. Stir in the eggs one at a time. Add the sifted ingredients and brandy, and stir until well blended.
• On a floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/2 or 1/4 inch thickness, and cut into desired shapes using cookie cutters. The traditional is fleur-de-lis. Place cookies onto baking sheets. Mix together the 1/4 cup of sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over the tops of the cookies.
• Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the bottoms are lightly browned.

MEXICAN BIZCOCHITOS (CRUSTY SWEET BISCUIT)

Steps:

• Cream together butter and powdered sugar.
• Add in flour, pecans and vanilla and mix together.
• Roll dough into 1-inch balls.
• Place on a greased baking sheet.
• Flatten with bottom of a glass that has been dipped in powdered sugar.
• Bake in 300°F preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.
• When done, roll each in powdered sugar while still warm.
• If you like cinnamon, you may add it to the dough or in the powdered sugar you roll the baked biscuit inches.
• My granddaughter likes to spread a little jam on hers, but that is too sweet for me.
• Best served warm from the oven with coffee, hot chocolate or your favorite warm drink.

EASY BIZCOCHITOS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine cookie mix, flour, orange zest and aniseed. Stir in melted butter, egg and vanilla until blended., Divide dough in half. Shape each into a disk; wrap in plastic. Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to roll., Preheat oven to 375°. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-in. cookie cutter., Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. In a small bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over cookies. Bake 6-9 minutes or until edges are light brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

BIZCOCHITOS

Steps:

• Cream fat and sugar until quite creamy.
• Add egg and beat until very fluffy.
• Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture.
• Stir in wine and anise seed.
• Roll dough to 1/4" thick and cut in plain squares or fancy shapes.
• Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle on top of each cookie.
• Bake in a preheated 350 oven for 15-20 minutes or until light brown.
• Freezes well.