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Champurradas
Crisp Guatemalan cookies made with wheat and maize flours, piloncillo and sesame seeds.
About Champurradas
Michele Peterson's champurradas combine all-purpose wheat flour with masa harina, piloncillo and white sugar. The Guatemalan cookies have a crisp, buttery character and a topping of white sesame seeds.
Butter, vegetable shortening, eggs and vanilla bring the dough together. It is rolled thin and cut into rounds before an egg-and-water wash helps the sesame seeds cling to the surface.
The baked cookies cool completely on a rack. Peterson serves them with coffee, recalling the place of champurradas in Guatemalan breakfasts and afternoon breaks.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat, Milk, Egg, Sesame.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Champurradas
Michele Peterson's Guatemalan sesame champurradas.
- All-purpose wheat flourBase
- Masa harinaBase
- PiloncilloSweetener
- White granulated sugarSweetener
- Baking powderSeasoning
- Unsalted butterCooking medium
- Vegetable shorteningCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- EggsBinder
- Vanilla extractAromatic
- White sesame seedsTopping
- WaterLiquid
- Flour for dustingCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- Prepared coffeeAccompaniment
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- All-purpose wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat source-confirmed. Actual163 AP flour, explicit Wheat.
- Masa harina: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual164/97-100 nixtamal maize flour, prepared ground form.
- Piloncillo: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual165 original branch over brownsugar/molasses substitute.
- White granulated sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual166 separate from piloncillo.
- Baking powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual167.
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual168.
- Vegetable shortening: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual169 named preparedvegetable shortening Crisco example, full product/formula/botanical identities unresolved, no Soy or dairy guess.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual170.
- Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual171/176/181 dough and brushwash same eggs consolidated.
- Vanilla extract: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual172 full product formula unprovided.
- White sesame seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed. Actual173/182 white seeds.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual181 explicit cold eggwash water, no made-up doughwater.
- Flour for dusting: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual114/179 generic dusting flour; TWO main flours so cereal unresolved, separate from definite Wheat dough.
- Prepared coffee: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual79/121 chosen coffee branch over tea/hotcocoa; exact preparation/full additions unprovided, no dairy absence claim.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Guatemala
- GuatemalaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Guatemalan Cuisine
- Guatemalan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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