“Lenguas de Gato” Buttery Biscuits

17 Apr “Lenguas de Gato” Buttery Biscuits

“lenguas de gato” is a popular biscuit in Peru to take with your coffee or tea. The translation will be cat’s tongue biscuit, but as weird at it sounds they are a delicate buttery and crispy biscuit. You will see that is an easy recipe with few ingredients, so I encourage you to try it. 

Ingredients:

125 grams of butter at room temperature

1 cup of flour

1 cup of powdered sugar

1 tablespoon of milk

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

Prep:

1. Preheat the oven at 180°C. Prepare two baking trays with parchment paper. 
2. Beat with a manual whisker the butter and vanilla until it turns creamy. Add the sugar, milk and egg and incorporate everything well. Finally, add the flour and mix well. 
3. Pour the mixture into a piping bag with a round tip and make 4cm strips leaving a cm between each other. Bake them for 12 minutes or until golden. Change the tray in the middle of cooking so every biscuit cook at the same time. 
4. Enjoy them with a cup of tea or coffee. 

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Hi! I’m Valeria (aka Val) the photographer and recipe developer behind Canguro Criollo. My passion for food began when I was little at my home when everything will revolve around food and now I discover this new creative outlet of food photography. I wish you can follow my journey discovering unique ways of preparing Peruvian food abroad and some other family-friendly foods.