ROSQUILLAS

This is a traditional sweet dough, that we usually take with our tea, coffee or hot chocolate. Quite easy to prepare, and you can make it as sweet or not as you would like. I am not so keen on sweet things, baking is not really my thing, this is why I prefer less sugar.

Also, you can change the anise on this recipe for orange juice.

Ingredients:

• 500 gr of wheat flour
• 1 sachet of baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 100 ml of olive oil (you can use sunflower oil, but I prefer olive oil)
• 150gr of sugar (but I only used 100gr)
• 100 ml of anise (or orange juice)
• some lemon zest

Wash the lemon a prepare the zest.

Mix together the eggs and the sugar until it gets a whiteish color. Then we add the olive oil and the anise and the lemon zest. The mix it properly and thoroughly.

In another bowl we put the flour and baking powder and mix it well. Little by little we will incorporate the liquid ingredients, whisking the mixture very well.

We need to mix it until the dough is not sticky any more. We might need to add some more flour.

Put it in a clean bowl and cover it well so air can not enter, the easiest way is to use plastic wrap. Let it rest for about half an hour on the fridge.

Preheat the oven to 190º both up and down. Take the dough out of the fridge and make rolls with your hands, not too thick but not too thin either. If they are too thick they might not cook properly inside, and if they are too thin they will be too dry.

Made the rolls into a doughnut, they do not need to be perfect, but leave enough space for the "hole" as when the rosquillas cook in the oven the dough will become bigger and will make it disappear.

Place them on a baking tray on top of baking paper. Make sure they are separate one from the other so they do not end up sticking together. You might need to do more than one batch.

Leave them in the over for about 10 minutes. If you see they are done before you can take them out, or leave them 5 more minutes if they are still too soft.

You can also fry the dough, but it a lot fattier.

Then you can sprinkle icing sugar on top if you have some, or just normal white or brown suggar.

Enjoy!