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Authentic Mexican Marranitos Molasses Gingerbread Pigs) Recipe - Food.com Find the Marranitos pig cookie cutter here: https://cookiecutter.com/marranitos-pig-cookie-cutter-foose.htm Molasses Gingerbread, Mexican Cookies, Mexican Sweets, Mexican Pastries, Mexican Sweet Breads, Mexican Bread, Pig Cookies, Ginger Molasses Cookies, Mexican Christmas

Moist and rich-tasting beneath a glossy, ever-so-slightly flaky top. Not quite cookie, not quite cake. Marranitos -- or cochinos, or puerquitos, as are they are called in some Mexican-American communities -- are often called "Gingerbread Pigs," although they don't actually have ginger in them - and no cinnamon either. In fact, traditional marranitos get their delicious spicy-brown goodness from molasses. Baking soda is the leavening agent, and it's the variation in the amount used that…

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