pan de polvo (mexican cookies)

How To Make pan de polvo (mexican cookies)

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  Boil a 1/4 cup of water with several cinnamon sticks, to make a cinnamon tea. Once cooled, strain out, the tea will be used to form dough
• 2

  Combine lard and flour, I use pastry cutter, add cinnamon tea, one tbsp at a time to form dough, (dough should be clay-dough like). I separate the dough in half form ball wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
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  3

  In food processor I grind 8-10 cinnamon sticks with sugar, until sugar is fine, but not powder, there will be chucks of cinnamon. Set a side in a large shallow container
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  4

  I roll out the dough between parchment paper. Use a round cookie cutter (about the size of half dollar) and cut out the cookies. Place them on cookie sheet. Bake for approximately 12 minutes.
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  After removing from oven, right away I gently use a thin spatula to start place a few cookies at a time into the cinnamon/sugar mixture. Gently and lightly coat the cookies, remove to a plate, continue until all cookies are lightly coated with the sugar/cinnamon
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