Recipe to prepare delicious catalinas.

The catalinas are rich Venezuelan biscuits with a soft and fluffy texture, they are a very good option for a snack and best of all, they are very easy to prepare.

My family usually meets every Saturday, this Saturday was no exception and together with my cousins and my aunt we started preparing this rich recipe and since it does not have many ingredients and I found it easy enough to prepare I decided to take pictures of the preparation and share it with you, so that together with your family or friends you can get down to work and give a gift to your palate. Hope you like. ;)

Ingredients:

Panela of papelon. 1 panela
Wheat flour. Half a kilogram
Butter. 4 spoons
Clove sweet.
Cinnamon ground or in pieces.
Sodium bicarbonate. A teaspoon.
Baking powder. A spoonful.

Since we have all the elements we can start with the preparation.

Preparation:

In a pot or saucepan, put the brown sugar panela to boil with 4 large cups of water and add a teaspoon of cinnamon and a teaspoon of clove sweet, let it boil until the panela is completely melted.

After melting, let cool and strain the preparation to remove the remains of cinnamon and cloves.

We already pre-heat the oven to 300 degrees, and then add the other ingredients, add the 4 tablespoons of butter, the baking soda (one teaspoon), the baking powder (one tablespoon) and begin to mix, begin to add the flour at the same time that we are whippeding, mix until you get a thick mixture.

In a previously greased tray we are going to empty the mixture and take it to the oven for 20 minutes.

In this case we decided to make the catalina like a cake, but if you like to make them as cookies you should only put on the tray small balls leaving about 3 cm between them, taking into account that at the time of cooking tend to expand and grow.
This is how our Catalina cake was left, spongy and with an exquisite flavor. Did you like the recipe?

Recipe to prepare delicious catalinas.

¡Have a nice week!