Montecaos lean biscuits

Delicate, aromatic and crumbly cookies, moderately sweet with a pleasant cinnamon aroma!

Ingredients

• Wheat flour - 125 g
• granulated sugar - 60 g
• Cocoa powder - 1 tsp
• Ground cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
• Vegetable oil - 50 ml

Directions

1. Weigh all the ingredients (except cinnamon and cocoa powder) on a scale, sift the flour, pour into a bowl, add finely ground sugar, odorless vegetable oil (I have sunflower oil).
2. Mix the ingredients to make the cookies
3. Mix everything well with a spoon.
4. It turns out a free-flowing mixture for baking
5. It turns out a free-flowing mixture of small crumbs.
6. Kneading the dough for lean cookies
7. Knead the dough with hot hands (you can pre-warm your palms under running hot water and wipe dry), the photo shows that the dough can already be shaped.
8. We form dough blanks
9. With hot hands, form cookies a little larger than a walnut, while their shape is still uneven. From the specified number, 12 cookies were obtained.
10. We make a recess in the middle of each workpiece
11. Then put each blank in the palm of your right hand, press it lightly, and with your left hand gently help in the formation of a rounded shape. The cookies are very fragile and crumbly, do not press too hard! Make a recess in the middle of each workpiece.
12. Mix cocoa powder with cinnamon for montecaos lean biscuits
13. Combine cocoa powder and cinnamon, place a pinch in each cavity in the cookie. Bake in an oven preheated to 160-180 ° C for about 20 minutes (be guided by the characteristics of your oven!). The cookie should remain light! Cool the finished cookies completely and serve with tea or coffee!