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Illustrative photo: Marnie Tubino — CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Snacks & baking

Conejito

The conejito is a small Chilean pastry shaped like a rabbit, made of shortcrust pastry filled with dulce de leche (manjar), sometimes dusted with icing sugar. It goes with afternoon snacks and family celebrations.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Spices & seasoning

Optional extras

Instructions

  1. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a bowl.
  2. Add the cold butter cut into cubes and rub it in with your fingertips until the texture resembles sand.
  3. Stir in the egg and milk, then knead quickly until smooth. Cover and chill for 20 minutes.
  4. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
  5. Roll the dough out to 4 mm thick and cut out discs about 8 cm across with a cutter.
  6. Place a spoonful of milk jam on each disc, then fold the dough over into a half-moon and seal the edges.
  7. Shape the rabbit ears with the tip of a knife and arrange the conejitos on the tray.
  8. Bake for 12 minutes, until golden. Let cool and dust with icing sugar if you like.

Variations and tips

Walnut version. Add 40 g of finely chopped walnuts to the dough for a more rustic taste.

With what's available here. Replace the milk jam with shop-bought dulce de leche, or with homemade milk jam made from sweetened condensed milk.

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Original Ecomely recipe.