New Mexico's state cookie: a crumbly anise-and-cinnamon shortbread cut into stars and fleur-de-lis, made with lard. Christmas without biscochitos in Santa Fe does not happen.

Biscochitos descend from Spanish colonial bunuelos and southern European butter cookies, adapted in Northern New Mexico with lard (instead of butter) and anise seed. The cookie became the official state cookie of New Mexico in 1989, the first state cookie in the United States, and is a Christmas, baptism and wedding fixture across Hispano families.

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