Pepas are typical Argentine pastry cookies that are usually consumed as a snack. The dough is soft, buttery and aromatic thanks to vanilla and lemon zest.
The typical filling is quince paste, which we will soften previously to turn it into a kind of paste. If you don't like quince, you can also prepare the seeds with apple paste, some jam that is not too liquid or even with a pastry cream or lemon curd. For 20 cookies 80 g butter at room temperature 80 g white sugar Zest of half a lemon ½ vanilla or a few drops of vanilla essence 1 medium egg 200 g wheat flour ½ teaspoon chemical booster a pinch of salt 75 g quince Paste.