Cultured Palate: Dishes from Cuba
| April 25, 2018
11. Torticas de Moron
These sweet little cookies hail from the town of Morón in central Cuba and are a popular bakery favorite all around the country. The base of these cookies is a simple sugar cookie dough flavored with lime with a little dot of guava paste in the center. Intensely sweet, torticas de moron cookies are often eaten with cream cheese for a savory kick.
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