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The Mantecadas Recipe I Make Every Sunday Morning

The Mantecadas Recipe I Make Every Sunday Morning
Prep
10 min
Cook
20 min
Total
45 min
Serves
6
Calories
298 kcal
Carbs
39.00 g

Ingredients

  • 2 largeeggs
  • 125 gramssugar (½ cup + 1 tbsp)
  • ½ cupmilk
  • ½ cupvegetable oil
  • 1 tspvanilla or orange essence
  • 1 tsporange zest (optional)
  • 125 gramsAll Purpose flour (1 cup minus 1 tbsp)
  • 1 tspbaking powder
  • 1 tspinstant yeast
  • 1 pinchsalt

Instructions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 400F. Place muffin paper liners in muffin pan.

  2. 2

    Sift together flour, baking powder and yeast in a medium size bowl, and set aside.

  3. 3

    Place egg and sugar in a large bowl and whisk until sugar has dissolved.

  4. 4

    Add milk and the flavoring of your choice and mix.

  5. 5

    Incorporate the oil in a gentle stream and whisk again to form a homogenous mixture.

  6. 6

    Slowly stir in the dry ingredients plus the pinch of salt, mixing gently until you have a uniform batter. Let batter rest for 15 minutes.

  7. 7

    Pour the batter into the prepared muffin pan, filling just below the edge.

  8. 8

    Bake for 20 minutes and cool for 5 minutes on a cooling rack.