Pin these to your cookie board! These Mantecaditos are tender, crisp, buttery Puerto Rican shortbread cookies! Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a cookie sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper, or use an ungreased cookie pan. In a large bowl, cream butter, shortening (or lard) and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Puerto Rican Cookies – Mantecaditos – are tender, crisp and buttery! Sometimes called polvorones puertorirqueños these festive cookies with sprinkles or guava paste are especially popular for Christmas! This recipe is adapted from the Puerto Rican Cookery cookbook by Carmen Valldejuli.
Perfect for everything from holiday baking to a treat in your child’s lunch box, these fifty low-carb cookie recipes cover the range of all that is good for you. From cookies made with healthy, nutty almond flour to those that are made with dates and coconut oil, you are going to find every type of cookie imaginable and, of course, they are all ...
The coconut milk pudding and Puerto Rican Spice cake recipes are both low in carbs if you use a low carb sweetener in place of the coconut sugar. I’m actually excited to give the two dairy-free cheese recipes a try.