🍪 Polvorones

Name: Polvorones
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: Spain · Andalusia
Ingredients: 250 g plain flour; 100 g ground almonds; 125 g lard, softened; 100 g powdered sugar, plus extra for dusting; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 pinch salt

Origin: Spain · Andalusia

144kcal

per serving · 30 g

480kcal

per 100 g

2 gProtein6 g / 100 g

8 gFat26 g / 100 g

16 gCarbs52 g / 100 g

Polvorones are small, crumbly Spanish shortbread cookies made from toasted flour, lard, ground almonds and sugar, flavoured with cinnamon. They are so tender they dissolve into powder in the mouth, which gives them their name (from 'polvo', dust). They are dusted with powdered sugar, wrapped in paper and eaten mainly at Christmas.

Diets

✓

Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

Not vegetarianbecause of: lard

Not veganbecause of: lard

Contains porkbecause of: lard

Contains glutenbecause of: flour

Not keto52 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Tree nuts

What it is made of

flourlardalmondssugarcinnamon

Recipe

20 servings60 min

Ingredients

250 g plain flour
100 g ground almonds
125 g lard, softened
100 g powdered sugar, plus extra for dusting
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 pinch salt

Method

Toast the flour on a baking tray at 160 °C for 15–20 minutes, stirring now and then, until lightly golden; let it cool completely.
Toast the ground almonds in a dry pan for 2–3 minutes until fragrant.
Beat the lard with the powdered sugar until creamy, then mix in the flour, almonds, cinnamon and salt to a crumbly dough.
Press the dough to 1.5 cm thick between sheets of baking paper and cut out small rounds or ovals.
Bake at 170 °C for 12–15 minutes; they should stay pale.
Cool fully on the tray before moving them, then dust with powdered sugar.

How to make it lighter

Polvorones are dense in energy, so one or two cookies is a sensible serving with coffee or tea.
Cut them smaller (about 15 g each) so a treat costs fewer calories.
Skip the extra powdered sugar on top to save a little added sugar.

History

Polvorones are closely associated with Andalusia, especially the town of Estepa near Seville, which is known for large-scale production of these Christmas sweets. They belong to the wider family of Spanish mantecados, cookies made with lard.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →