If you are lovers of butter or spiced cookies such as shortbread or gingerbread cookies, You are going to love these Venezuelan Catalinas because they have a good part of the same ingredients and the result is spectacular for this recipe from Venezuela that you can use as a dessert after making some arepas, some empanadas or a Creole pavilion.
Its charm, in addition to the spiceis in the touch of butter and in the use of muscovado sugar that will also be responsible for the brown color that these cookies take on after going through the oven and that will turn your kitchen into an olfactory marvel.
Also, They hold up pretty well if you keep them in an airtight container.so you can make more cookies than necessary, although the recipe that we bring you today will allow you to make quite a few large cookies.
With these elements, it is impossible for the sprockets not to enter into our cookie recipe podium, of pasta, biscuits, cakes or anything that is sweet and we have ever cooked in DAP.
In a pot we put the water, the sugar and the cloves and bring it to the boil stirring for a minute and Let it cool at room temperature to make the candy.
In a bowl we put 280 grams of flour, ginger, cinnamon and baking soda, mix and we make a hole in the middle like a volcano where we put the egg and the ointment butter.
On top of all this we add the muscovado sugar caramel that will already be cold, strain it to remove the cloves.
We work that dough by hand incorporating all the ingredients, where It will be a homogeneous but very sticky dough.so we add part of the remaining 280 grams of flour until we get a dough that does not stick to our hands or to the bowl.
At that moment we put a little flour on the counter and dump the dough on the counter, knead it for two minutes and adding a little flour if the dough sticks to the counter.
Stretch the dough on the counter with a thickness of 1.5 centimeters and cut it into circles of eight or ten centimeters in diameter and bake at 150 ºC for 20 minutes.
After that time let cool a bit and consume.
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With what to accompany the Venezuelan catalinas
As we said at the beginning, these Venezuelan Catalinas they can be the perfect dessert for a meal in which we have given outlets to other classics of Venezuelan cuisine such as arepas, cachapas, the Creole pavilion or the tres leches cake.
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