These crispy fried treats are perfect any time of the year but you will find them in most Portuguese homes around the Holidays.
Known as Coscorões, these treats have a nice orange flavour and a delicious sugar and cinnamon topping.
I have to admit that my favourite Christmas dessert is Bolo Rei/Kings’s Cake but this a very close second.
My daughter made these for her class as a treat when she did a presentation on Portuguese Christmas traditions.
They were a hit with her professor as well as all her classmates.
Coscoroes recipe: (you will need a food scale)
60 grams of sugar
60 grams of butter, melted
4 eggs
Rind of one orange (grated)
Juice of one orange
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup of Portuguese brandy, “aguardente”
600 grams of flour
Sugar and cinnamon for dusting
Oil for frying (I use Canola oil)
Extra flour for kneading
In an electric mixer using the paddle attachment beat sugar, butter, eggs, orange rind, pinch of salt, orange juice, and brandy, mixing in one thing at a time until blended.
Add the flour. Continue mixing until well blended and you have a sticky dough.
When you have a sticky dough cover your bowl with a cloth and let stand for one hour.
Once it has rested for an hour, place dough on a lightly floured surface and dust with more flour.
Knead dough, lightly, adding flour until dough is no longer sticking to your hands.
Stretch dough with rolling pin until thin, cut dough into squares or rectangles. Cut slits inside squares.
Fry in hot oil flipping once. When golden brown remove and place on paper towel.
Have cinnamon and sugar mixture ready, dip fried dough in the mixture while still warm.
Ingredients
- 60 grams of sugar
- 60 grams of butter, melted
- 4 eggs
- Rind of one orange(grated)
- Juice of one orange
- Pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup of Portuguese brandy, “aguardente”
- 600 grams of flour
- Sugar and cinnamon for dusting
- Oil for frying (I use Canola oil)
- Extra flour for kneading
Instructions
- In an electric mixer using the paddle attachment beat sugar, butter, eggs, orange rind, pinch of salt, orange juice, and brandy, mixing in one thing at a time.
- Then mix in the flour. Continue mixing until well blended and you have a sticky dough.
- Cover bowl with cloth and let stand for one hour.
- Place dough on a lightly floured surface and dust with more flour.
- Knead dough, lightly adding flour until dough is no longer sticking to your hands.
- Stretch dough with rolling pin until thin and cut into squares or rectangles. Cut slits inside squares. Fry in hot oil flipping once.
- When golden brown remove and place on paper towel.
- Add cinnamon to sugar and dip fried dough in mixture.
Hope you give these a try this Christmas,
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This is the recipe that my daughter used and it comes out great without yeast.
You don’t use yeast in your recipe? My parents (from Portugal) are telling me you need to add yeast.
Jennifer the orange rind is grated and just blended it in with the rest of the ingredients. Hope you try it, let us know how it turns out. Have great weekend.
hello, how is the orange rind mixed in? does it stay in there or us it just for flavoring? do i chop it up? i am new to this recipe…😊
Thanks Kristina & Millie.
nom nom nom these coscoroes look so yummy and melt in your mouth! thank you for sharing the recipe!