Mexican-style hot chocolate flavored cookies. how known mexicans love to saturate their chocolate drink various spices, including cinnamon and pepper, as fragrant and burning. Knead cocoa and spices in the dough and bake small chocolate mugs. Add them more flavor sprinkled with boiled condensed milk or caramel, and sprinkled sliced almonds. The cookies are crispy, fragrant and rich warm taste. The perfect treat during the winter праздников. 
Time: 1 hour. 40 min Difficulty: easy Quantity: 36 cookies In recipes volumetric containers are used in volume: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cups (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (Art.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 0.5 tbsp. + 1 tbsp. l Mexican sugar-free cocoa powder (its can be replaced by adding 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon in unsweetened cocoa powder)
- 1/4 tsp soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 0.5 tbsp. + 1 tbsp. l brown sugar
- 0.5 tbsp. + 1 tbsp. l granulated sugar
- 3 tbsp. l sweet butter, room temperature
- 3 tbsp. l margarine
- 0.5 tsp ground cinnamon
- A generous pinch of ground black pepper
- A generous pinch of cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Protein 1 Egg
- 0.5 tbsp. boiled condensed milk, optional
- 1/4 Art. almonds, finely chopped, optional
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Recipe preparation:
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine flour, cocoa, soda, and salt. Mix thoroughly with a whisk. Put all the sugar in a little bowl and mix with your hands, breaking the lumps (if the lumps are too solid, mix in a food processor).
- In a medium-sized bowl with a hand mixer, whip the creamy butter and margarine until creamy. Add sugar mixture, cinnamon, pepper and vanilla. Whisk at high speed for about 1 minutes Stir in egg white and beat until smooth. Stop the mixer.
- Add the flour mixture and mix at low speed until homogeneous consistency. Gather the dough with your hands and form from it is a neat log 22 – 25 cm long and 4 cm in diameter. Wrap in wax paper or plastic wrap. Fold or Twist the ends of the paper without pinching or flattening the log. Put in the refrigerator for at least 45 minutes, or until it need it.
- Place the grills on the lower and upper third of the oven and Preheat the oven at 175 ° C. Cover baking sheets with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
- Use a sharp knife to cut chilled dough into circles with a thickness of 0.5 see. Place cookies on prepared baking sheets at a distance of 2.5 see apart. Bake for 12 to 14 minutes. In the middle of baking swap baking sheets and rotate them the other side. Biscuit will swell and crack on top and then towards the end baking will settle a little.
- Remove the baking sheets from the oven and a metal spatula put cookies on a wire rack to cool. Cool completely cookies before storing them. Store in airtight container for 2 weeks, or freeze for up to 2 months.
- To add flavor to the liver, after it cool on a wire rack, sprinkle it with boiled condensed milk and sprinkle with chopped almonds.
