Cookie twists

Name: Cookie twists (Calzones rotos)
Cuisine: Chilean
Ingredients: 600 g/1 lb 6 oz/5⅓ cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 30 ml/2 tbsp baking powder; 75 g/3 oz/6 tbsp butter, softened; 1 egg, plus 2 egg yolks; 1 egg, plus 2 egg yolks; 15 ml/1 tbsp grated lemon rind; 30 ml/2 tbsp brandy; vegetable oil, for deep frying; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting

Calzones rotos

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Cooking of Chile

By Boris Basso Benelli

Published 2014

About

Pastry twists are a favourite Chilean teatime snack. Calzones rotos literally means ‘torn trousers’, a name which comes from the shape, formed by passing one end of a strip of dough through a slit in the other, forming a loop.

Ingredients

600 g/1 lb 6 oz/5⅓ cups plain (all-purpose) flour

Americas
Chile
Dessert
Snack
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour, baking powder and sugar in a pile on a work surface. Make a well in the centre and add the butter, egg, egg yolks, lemon rind and brandy. Mix together with your hands, gradually adding 200 ml/7

Energy 498kcal/2102kJ; Protein 9g; Carbohydrate 86g, of which sugars 27g; Fat 15g, of which saturates 6g; Cholesterol 100mg; Calcium 162mg; Fibre 3g; Sodium 516mg