Marranitos (or Gingerbread Pigs) are delicious cake-like spiced Mexican cookies flavored with molasses and brown sugar. Always a hit for the holidays!
These soft, brown, pig-shaped cookies flavored with molasses and piloncillo are reminiscent of gingerbread are a traditional Mexican pan dulce.
No Mexican panaderia for hundreds of miles? Bake my own marranitos-puerquitos! Reliving my favorite childhood moments with this recipe.
Marranitos are often called "Gingerbread Pigs." Traditional marranitos get their delicious spicy-brown flavor from molasses. They are rich and oh so gratifying, their cake-like texture is reminiscent of shortbread, very lightly spiced, and deeply flavored from the traditional dark unrefined sugar known as piloncillo. Marranitos are perfect to accompany a hot cup of coffee or Champurrado (Mexican Hot Chocolate).
Marranitos are often called "Gingerbread Pigs." Traditional marranitos get their delicious spicy-brown flavor from molasses. They are rich and oh so gratifying, their cake-like texture is reminiscent of shortbread, very lightly spiced, and deeply flavored from the traditional dark unrefined sugar known as piloncillo. Marranitos are perfect to accompany a hot cup of coffee or Champurrado (Mexican Hot Chocolate).
No Mexican panaderia for hundreds of miles? Bake my own marranitos-puerquitos! Reliving my favorite childhood moments with this recipe.
No Mexican panaderia for hundreds of miles? Bake my own marranitos-puerquitos! Reliving my favorite childhood moments with this recipe.
These are the famous Marranitos de Piloncillo, one of my country’s most traditional recipes. This recipe that I’ve used here is excellent, but if anyone out there has the original recipe and would like to share it with me, I would be eternally grateful. Mexican Little Piggy, Quick and Easy.
No Mexican panaderia for hundreds of miles? Bake my own marranitos-puerquitos! Reliving my favorite childhood moments with this recipe.
These soft, brown, pig-shaped cookies flavored with molasses and piloncillo are reminiscent of gingerbread are a traditional Mexican pan dulce.
These are the famous Marranitos de Piloncillo, one of my country’s most traditional recipes. This recipe that I’ve used here is excellent, but if anyone out there has the original recipe and would like to share it with me, I would be eternally grateful. Mexican Little Piggy, Quick and Easy.
Moist and rich-tasting beneath a glossy, ever-so-slightly flaky top. Not quite cookie, not quite cake. Marranitos -- or cochinos, or puerquitos, as are they are called in some Mexican-American communities -- are often called "Gingerbread Pigs," although they don't actually have ginger in them - and no cinnamon either. In fact, traditional marranitos get their delicious spicy-brown goodness from molasses. Baking soda is the leavening agent, and it's the variation in the amount used that makes some bakeries' pigs fatter than others. In Mexico, bakers take piloncillos -- unrefined brown sugar pressed into small cone shapes -- and boil the sugar with just enough water to make their own molasses syrup, which is then added to the dough for the little pigs. Then the dough is rolled out and cut with pig-shaped cookie cutters about the size of a medium-size grown-up's hand. (4.5") *This recipe is from Fort Worth baker Marco Rangel, and is used for the molasses pigs he sells at his bakery, the Panaderia San Marcos. It uses the non-traditional addition of cinnamon. You may wish to try also adding a bit of dry ground ginger. And you may use a milk wash instead of an egg wash.
Lightly sweetened and perfectly golden brown, this homemade authentic Mexican Buñuelos recipe is a must during the holiday season, but is lovely all year round. Each of these buñuelos mexicanos is essentially a crispy fried tortilla with cinnamon and sugar, perfect for drizzling with a touch of honey.
These soft, brown, pig-shaped cookies flavored with molasses and piloncillo are reminiscent of gingerbread are a traditional Mexican pan dulce.
