Sunday, April 13, 2014

Cinnamon Tortilla Triangles



Ingredients:
6 T. salted butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 large flour tortillas (burrito sized)

Directions:
Note: You're going to prepare one at a time. You'll see why. Just trust me.

Preheat oven to 350F

1. Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
2. Melt butter using your preferred method (I nuked mine)
3. While butter melts, slice one of your tortillas into triangles using a pizza cutter.
4. On a cookie sheet with a rim, slather both sides of the tortilla triangles with the butter (use all of it. Remember, just trust me!) then sprinkle with the sugar mixture on both sides.
5. Bake for approximately 10 minutes, until the sugar looks kinda caramelized and the tortillas look crisp...but not TOO crisp. You want them slightly chewy still so they don't make a terrible mess when you try to eat them. Unless you're into that.
6. Being vewwy vewwy careful to not burn yourself on that scalding sugar, transfer tortillas onto a plate or cooling rack. As you can see, a ton of sugar and butter will be left on the pan. I used a rubber spatula to scrape the stuff out of the pan and into a bowl to cool slightly before handling. Then I sliced up the second tortilla, poured/smooshed the remaining sugarbutter over them, and baked again.

These are super awesome when they're still hot, but also good at room temperature for a snack later. Just store in an airtight container after cooling.

Okay, okay, I admit. I used way too much butter and sugar the first time and discovered the fact that the sugar could be reused to make another. Because the sugar mixture leaks off into the pan no matter how you do it, I think this method is easier than trying to do both at once or whatever.

Also, don't be freaked about the pan getting scorched or anything... you're not baking for very long or for a very hot temperature so my pans were perfectly okay and the sugar mixture dissolved in warm dishwater easily.

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