Polvorosas are Colombian sugar and butter cookies easy to make and delicious. This recipe only requires 5 ingredients.
Polvorosas (Colombian Butter and Sugar Cookies)
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups of unsalted butter 3 sticks
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ½ cup powder sugar
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- To clarify the butter: Place the unsalted butter in a medium pot over low heat, until it is melted.
- Let it simmer until the foam goes to the top of the melted butter.
- Remove the pan from the heat and let stand for about 5 minutes.
- Skim the foam from the top and discard. Pour it into a bowl using a fine mesh strainer.
- With an electric mixer, beat the butter for about 3 minutes. Add the sugar,vanilla and beat until well blended. Add the flour, and continue beating for 2 minutes.
- Form the dough into a ball. Wrap in plastic and place in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
- Roll 2 tablespoons of dough between your palms into balls. Place the balls on a large greased baking sheet about ½-inch apart. Flatten the balls using your hands.
- Bake the cookies until golden on top, about 15 minutes. Let them cool for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet. Dust the cookies with the powdered sugar.
Notes
- I recommend using a nice quality butter to make this polvorosas
- Allow this Colombian cookies to cool before storing them.
- The cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature.
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I love making these Colombian cookies because they are very simple to make and they don't require cookie cutters or any fancy tools 🙂 They are also crumbly and buttery perfect served with a glass of milk , cup of black Colombian coffee or a cup of tea. The name Polvorosas comes from the word Polvo in Spanish, which translates to powder in English.
Polvorosas are a great treat to make with your kids. I made these cookies with my mom and my siblings while growing up in Colombia and now I make them with my son. He loves rolling the cookies in the powdered sugar! I hope you enjoy making, and eating, these Polvorosas as much as we do!
Buen Provecho!
More Colombian cookies recipes that you may want to try:
Panderos (Yuca Starch Cookies)
Joanne
I love these cookies! They really do make the perfect tea snack!
Juliana
Oh Erica...I can almost taste this cookies melting un my mouth...gorgeous!
Thanks for the recipe and hope you are having a great week 🙂
Belinda @zomppa
I want, I want, I want!! Looks soooooooo amazingly tempting!
sippitysup
I like the way this cookies crumbles! GREG
Angie@Angie's Recipes
I have never had Colombian cookies! You can't go wrong with the combo of butter and sugar, can you? They are just gorgeous.
Carol @ Always Thyme to Cook
They are a perfect treat! They look fantastic, especially with a cup of coffee.
Lisa
When is the best time to put the vanilla in the mixture?
Erica
Add the vanilla with the sugar.
grace
i'm sure these just disintegrate in the mouth--how yummy!
tasteofbeirut
Love cookies with clarified butter! these would be gone in minutes here!
Anonymous
We made these cookies last night and they were buttery and delicious. thanks for the recipe.
Erica
Thank you, guys! I appreciate your comments!
Dani
They sound really good I can't wait to try making them. One quick question do you bring the butter to room temperature before you beat it or do you beat it while it's still liquid?
Elisabeth
Do you add both sugars to the cookie dough or is the powdered sugar only for the dusting at the end? Thank you!
Cody
Can I add an egg so they don't crumble?
Daisy
Should I add in all of the sugar at one time or save the powdered sugar for dusting?
Janice Salinas
I just tried these as a class project for my son and the cookies flattened and didn't bake correctly. It seems that there was too much butter or not enough flour. I assumed that the powdered sugar was for dusting. Does the powdered sugar need to be added to the dough mixture?
Erica Dinho
The powder sugar is for dusting.They are butter cookies, Did you place the dough in the fridge for about 30 minutes?
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Joi
I just made them! They are amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Ali
Thank you! My friend and I made these cookies. The whole class loved them!
Terri
My cookies flatten out when baking about 1/8 in deep what do you think would have caused that?
Fern
My son had to make a Colombian food recipe. He chose these cookies. So glad he did! They were really easy to make and so, so good! Had to pack them up for school quickly, before we ate them all. Will definitely make them again! Thanks for the recipe.
Mak
Hi all! My husband is actually native to Colombia and has informed me that these cookies are not Colombian. Polvorosas are a Venezuelan cookie. Still yummy!
Harold
I just baked these and the cookies came out flat and all together. It was a cookie sheet full of flat cookie. What did I do wrong?
Mike
My cookies also turned into one flat mass. I didn’t refrigerate for 30 minutes. Is that the likely problem?