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Go buy butter and a little fresh baker's yeast if you want to prepare these shells.
You will have to weigh the ingredients well to obtain a dough like the one seen in the photo. We will work it with a little oil in your hands and on the counter (or table) because it is quite sticky.
Once the shells are formed and baked, we will only have to let them cool and sprinkle a little of powdered sugar on the surface. You don't have icing sugar? Well, here is the link to one of our cooking tricks: How to make icing sugar
Caracolas
Delicious conches perfect for breakfast and a snack.
- ascen jimenez
- Kitchen: cuisine
- Recipe type: picnic
- Rations: 6
- Preparation time:
- Cooking time:
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Ingredients
- 140 g of eggs (we crack 4 eggs in a bowl, beat them a little and weigh the exact 70 g)
- 100 g of sugar
- 100 g of water
- 460 g of bread flour
- 20 g fresh pressed baker's yeast
- 30 g oil
- 100-150 g of lard at room temperature
Plus:
- Powdered sugar
Preparation
We put the eggs, sugar and water in a bowl. We mix or beat well.
We add the flour.
Also fresh yeast.
We mix again, using a food processor or, if we don't have it, our hands to be able to knead well.
We add the oil and continue kneading. The dough will be shiny and sticky but don't worry, this is how it has to be.
We let it rest for about 20 minutes, with the bowl covered with a kitchen towel.
We divide the dough into 6 portions.
We take one of the portions and spread it well with a roller. We have to have a kind of long strip.
We spread that strip with butter and roll it at the widest part, as if we were forming a gypsy arm.
We roll it later to form the conch.
We do the same with the other 5 portions of dough.
We are putting the shells on two baking trays previously covered with baking paper. We let them rest for at least 5 hours in a place free from drafts.
After that time we bake them at 180º for approximately 20 minutes.
We let them cool on a rack.
Once cool, sprinkle a little icing sugar over the shells.
More information - Cooking tip: How to make icing sugar