Cuba: Torticas de Coco

The Dish: Flaky coconut cookie things
The Country: Cuba, population 11,241,161

my substitute for corn flakes

Ingredients:


2 egg whites
1 cup granulated white sugar
2 cups corn flakes
 1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

I was worried about how gloppy it looked... but it worked!!!!

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 325°
Mix all ingredients 
Place balls of mixture on a cookie sheet
Bake for 15 minutes
Cool.
Eat.

THE FINAL PRODUCT

Notes:  SO GOOD. I'm eating one right now and typing with one hand.  I can't even put the cookie down.
Rating: 5

China: Almond Cookies

The Dish: Almond cookies
The Country: China is the world's most populous country (with over 1.3 billion people!!). It is the second largest in terms of land area.

goo balls

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
• 1/4 pound whole, blanched almonds (one for each cookie)

Procedure:
Preheat oven to 325°
Sift dry ingredients (not including almonds)
Mix in wet ingredients
Space small balls of dough about 1/2 inch apart on a greased cookie sheet
Place almonds on top of cookies
Bake for 17 minutes

giant fluffy cookies

Notes: They weren't "WOW" cookies, but they were nice and fluffy.
Rating: 2

Central African Republic: Benne Wafers

The Dish: Sesame seed cookies
The Country: Official languages: French and Sango

 goop

Ingredients:
3/4 cup sesame seeds
1.5 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup melted butter
1 egg
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder

blobs of goop

Procedure:
Preheat oven to 375°
Grease a cookie sheet or line with wax paper
Mix everything together
Place 1 inch wide balls of dough on wax paper, flatten
Bake for 7 minutes

I'm not so good at the whole shaping the cookies into round balls thing...

Notes: I'm the process of correcting some crooked back molars (yay dental problems!) so my chewing abilities are limited.  From the little I tasted of this cookie thing, it seemed pretty good.  I may have cooked them a little long... a few minutes less and they might have been softer on my recently installed molar spacers (look it up).
Rating: 2.3