Mantecaditos Puerto Rican Cookie recipe reminds me of my childhood during Christmas time! Now it’s become part of our family tradition.
Mantecaditos Puerto Rican Cookie Recipe
The holidays are a significant time of year to share traditions and memories with family. I want to share some of those traditions with my daughters.
I want them to remember the Christmas holiday cookie baking together.
The fun we have creating messes! Hoping that one day they will share these traditions with their children.
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My Mantecaditos cookie recipe, also known as shortbread cookies, is super easy to make and family-friendly.
This holiday cookie recipe will quickly become one of your favorite cookies during Christmas baking or all year round.
Ingredients Needed For Shortbread Cookies
- 2 cups of flour
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/2 cup of vegetable shortening
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of almond extract
- yellow food coloring
- sprinkles
How To Make Puerto Rican Mantecadito Cookies
Making shortbread cookies is fairly simple, but the taste is amazing!
Which makes it the perfect holiday cookie recipe to share during Christmas time.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix your butter and shortening until it’s nice and smooth. It will have a creamy consistency.
- Slowly add your sugar until mixed well.
- Add your vanilla extract, almond extract, and a few drops of yellow food coloring as you mix all the ingredients.
- Mix everything until the dough forms into a ball and the dough consistency hardens a bit.
- To create the cookies, scoop a tablespoon of dough and form it into balls. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. They will not stick because of the shortening and butter already in the dough.
- Gently press down in the middle and add sprinkles to your cookies.
*Tip – The easiest way to add sprinkles to your cookies is to pour them pressed down with your thumb and then move sprinkles around the dough with your finger.
- Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
Mantecaditos Puerto Rican Cookie Recipe
Bake these Puerto Rican holiday Mantecaditos shortbread cookies. Perfect for Santa to enjoy!
Ingredients
- 2 cups of flour
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/2 cup of vegetable shortening
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of almond extract
- yellow food coloring
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix your butter and shortening until it’s nice and smooth. It will have a creamy consistency.
- Slowly add your sugar until mixed well.
- Add your vanilla extract, almond extract, and a few drops of yellow food coloring as you keep mixing all the ingredients.
- Mix everything until dough forms into a ball and the dough consistency harden a bit.
- To create the cookies scoop out a tablespoon of dough and form into balls. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. They will not stick because of the shortening and butter already in the dough.
- Gently press down in the middle and add sprinkles to your cookies.
- Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
Notes
*Tip – The easiest way to add sprinkles to your cookies is to pour them where pressed down with your thumb and then move sprinkles around the dough with your finger.
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My little elves are excited about Christmas night and sharing their baked cookies with Santa!
I’m excited to be able to share these fantastic traditions with my girls and husband.
Plus, with all of this free time they will have during their holiday break, there will be lots of baking going on!
Now, my only question is, who’s going to help me clean up this mess?
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*Originally published November 2016*
These are great looking cookies and so colorful. Perfect for Santa!
They really are!
These look delicious! This recipe sounds like it would be so much fun to try this year. Thanks for posting it!
These look yummy, and I bet your girls had fun helping you. Can’t wait until my little girl is old enough to help me. Some of my favorite memories are helping my grandma bake holiday goodies.
Santa will love these. You all did a great job!
I would love to try and bake these for something different that I know my grandsons haven’t tried before! They look delicious and so festive!
Hi! These look amazing! How many cookies does this recipe make?
Hi Damaris! We made about 2 dozens small cookies.
What step do you add the flour? I don’t see it in the recipe. I added after all wet ingredients and am baking them now.
Hi Christine! Yes, after the wet ingredients. I will go in and edit this on the post to specify. Thanks for pointing that out! Would love to hear how they turned out! Thanks so much!
How many servings?
never mind
Let me know if you have any other questions. Hope you love them as much as my girls do!
How many drops of food coloring did you add?
Hi Maria, I added just a few drops. About 2 or 3. 🙂
i love; this cookies can you substitute not adding yellow coloring and adding chocolate chips instead
Yes absolutely!! I love the idea of not using the yellow coloring!
I can’t use shortening, can these be made with only butter? Thank you.
Yes, absolutely! In fact, I have made them with just butter recently because I also can’t use shortening.