Coricos – Ring- Shaped Corn Cookies

Coricos – Ring- Shaped Corn Cookies

Coricos are ring-shaped cookies made with corn flour, very traditional in some northern Mexican states.  In small communities and rural settlements, homemade batches of these sweet treats are baked year-round, and especially for Catholic Holy week and Easter.   In larger communities and cities, packages of coricos are omnipresent at supermarkets and corner store displays alike ... click on title for more

Corn Flour and Masa 101

Corn Flour and Masa 101

Click here to go to printable recipe: Corn Dough - Masa There is very little consensus on what people first picture when they hear the words “corn flour.”  I think of the flour used for masa, a dough to make tortillas, gorditas, and many other Mexican corn products.  I understand in Great Britain it will [...]