Mexican pig cookies

Marranitos are often called "Gingerbread Pigs." Traditional marranitos get their delicious spicy-brown flavor from molasses. They are rich and oh so gratifying, their cake-like texture is reminiscent of shortbread, very lightly spiced, and deeply flavored from the traditional dark unrefined sugar known as piloncillo. Marranitos are perfect to accompany a hot cup of coffee or Champurrado (Mexican Hot Chocolate).

Puerquitos, marranitos, cochinitos, o galletas de piloncillo. These are the names that these piggy shaped cookies are known by across Mexico. They're an

Makes 16 Large Cookies This is the cookie cutter I used.

Marranitos (aka puerquitos or cochinitos de piloncillo) is a delicious Mexican pan dulce shaped like a little pig that tastes like a soft gingerbread cookie!

Wonderful Marranitos with hints of piloncillo and cinnamon in every bite. This Mexican Pan Dulce is so flavorful and so easy to make!

Marranitos are absolute favorites in Mexican baking. My recipe is created from childhood memory, with no ginger. Piloncillo, star anise, and black pepper, there's the secret!

These sugar cookies taste like traditional Mexican bakery cookies and are made with simple ingredients such as sugar, butter, and flour.

Hidden in the middle of these little piggy-shaped molasses cookies are warming spices and a gooey chocolate-hazelnut surprise.

These soft, brown, pig-shaped cookies flavored with molasses and piloncillo are reminiscent of gingerbread are a traditional Mexican pan dulce.