Mantecadas
Mantecadas are a traditional sweet bread… it is also MY favorite Mexican sweet bread!! When I was a little girl in Mexico, I would love to walk with my grandpa to one of the neighborhood bakeries in Mexico City to buy sweet bread as an afternoon snack. I would always reach for the Mantecadas 🙂
In Texas, there are plenty of Mexican bakeries around. But since moving to the Midwest… well it has become difficult to find one. There is one in town, but it is about half an hour drive from my place.
Therefore, I’ve started to make them myself. I got the basic recipe from the book Panes Mexicanos by Irving Quiroz and made a few changes based on personal taste…
Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2.5 eggs (or 125 g)
- 125 g of sugar
- 60 ml of milk
- 1/2 cup of butter (melted
- 125 g flour
- 2.5 g salt
- 2.5 g baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:’
- Preheat oven to 355 F
- Mix eggs and sugar until well incorporated
- Mix milk and vanilla extract and continue to mix well for about 2 minutes
- Melt butter. Then pour it into the batter slowly while continuing to mix
- Add baking powder, salt and flour little by little while you mix, until the batter is smooth.
- Line a cupcake pan with muffin liners (or the traditional red mantecadas liners if you can find them) and fill them. Do not fill them to the brim.
- Place in oven and bake for about 25 minutes or until the tops are golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean. This recipe should make about 5 mantecadas