Mantecaditos Puerto Rican Cookie Recipe

By efriend

Ingredients

• 2 cups of flour
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1/2 cup of vegetable shortening
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon of almond extract
• yellow food coloring
• sprinkles

Details

Servings 24

Preparation

Step 1

Start off by disinfecting all counters and areas you will be using to bake with PURELL® Multi Surface Disinfectant.

Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Mix your butter and shortening until it’s nice and smooth. It will have a creamy consistency.

Slowly add your sugar until mixed well.

Add your vanilla extract, almond extract, and a few drops of yellow food coloring as you keep mixing all the ingredients.

Mix everything until dough forms into a ball and the dough consistency harden a bit.
To create the cookies scoop out a tablespoon of dough and form into balls. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. They will not stick because of the shortening and butter already in the dough.

Gently press down in the middle and add sprinkles to your cookies.

*Tip – The easiest way to add sprinkles to your cookies is to pour them where pressed down with your thumb and then move sprinkles around the dough with your finger.

Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.