mantecadas

Yesterday, putting my own spin and interpretation on a recipe I saw online, I made what I thought were mantecadas. I was mistaken. I actually made very soft and dainty little yellow cake cupcakes. I was so happy with them! They were great, but they weren’t mantecadas. It wasn’t until later when I did more research online did I find that mantecadas are more like muffins than cupcakes.

Segera dapatkan akses terbaru ke pengeluaran macau hari ini dengan platform result macau! Kami menawarkan layanan terkini dan terupdate untuk hasil pengeluaran Macau tahun 2024. Dengan informasi yang akurat dan tepat waktu, Anda dapat membuat keputusan taruhan yang cerdas dan mengoptimalkan strategi permainan Anda. Jangan lewatkan kesempatan untuk meraih kemenangan dengan informasi terkini yang kami sediakan. Bergabunglah dengan Result Macau sekarang dan nikmati pengalaman taruhan yang sesungguhnya!

The mantecadas that are typically sold in Mexico or in Latino markets here in the US are often baked in muffin tins and have large bakery-style domes on them. They also usually have red liners. The ones that originate in Northern Spain (per wiki), are usually baked in rectangular tins and resemble pound cake. So I will save the yellow cupcake recipe for another day. And the moral of this story is that it’s fine to embellish a recipe and experiment with substitutions. But in so doing, just know that if you make too many changes, you might end up making something completely different than what you intended to make in the first place.

Bergabunglah dengan komunitas poker terbaik di tahun 2024 dan nikmati pengalaman bermain yang tak tertandingi! Kami mengundang Anda untuk bergabung dengan platform poker terkemuka kami yang menawarkan bonus yang melimpah serta layanan yang terdepan di industri ini. Dapatkan kesempatan untuk meraih kemenangan besar dan tingkatkan keterampilan poker Anda dengan berbagai turnamen dan permainan yang menarik. Sebagai penyedia terkemuka, kami berkomitmen untuk memberikan pengalaman bermain yang luar biasa dan layanan pelanggan yang terbaik. Segera daftarlah hari ini dan jadilah bagian dari komunitas poker yang dinamis dan penuh dengan kegembiraan!

If you are wondering about the numbers “1” and “3” that appear in the photos, this is of no significance to the recipe. What happened was, a few years ago I wanted to make rice krispies in the form of a giant “13” to celebrate me and several coworkers’ 13th year work anniversary, so I bought these two cake pans! I haven’t used them for anything except as a base for a large planter in our apartment, but we recently rearranged our furniture and moved the planter off of them, and so I decided to use them as props for these. Pretty snazzy, huh? 😉

Just a side-by-side comparison to the cupcakes I made from the day before…

mantecadas, makes 10-12 muffins (adapted from panes mexicanos by Chef Irving Quiroz)

ingredients

4 large eggs (200 grams)

1/2 cup plus 2 Tablespoons (125 grams) granulated sugar

1/4 cup (60 ml) whole milk 

1/2 cup (120 ml)  olive oil

1 cup + 1/3 cup + 1Tablespoon (180 grams) all-purpose flour, sifted

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

zest of one orange

2 teaspoons orange blossom water

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

method

Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Line 10-12 standard muffin tins with paper liners.

Sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder. Stir with a whisk several times and set aside. Add the orange zest to this flour mixture and mix in to get the zest coated with the flour mixture to avoid clumping. Set aside.

Whisk the oil with the sugar until all the sugar is wet and mixed in, then add the eggs, one at a time, scraping down the sides and bottom as needed. 

Add the orange blossom water and vanilla into the creamed oil/sugar mixture, and mix until incorporated.

Alternate adding a little flour to the batter with adding a little milk to the batter, mixing on low or using a whisk after each incremental addition until both the flour mixture and milk are mixed in.

Divide batter evenly between the 10 to 12 muffin moulds evenly (depending on how tall you want them) and place in center rack of 375 degree oven and bake for about 20-22 minutes until tops are lightly browned and centers are not wet. Toothpicks stuck in centers of muffins should come out clean.

Let cool on wire racks before serving. Can be stored in an airtight container for a few days.

One response to “mantecadas”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s


This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Blog at WordPress.com.


%d bloggers like this: