Cinnamon Crisps for Coco

I swear not all my recipes will be fried things!

Cinnamon Crisps

4 flour tortillas

1 cup of sugar

1 tsp of cinnamon

enough oil to fry

 1. Heat oil to 325 either in skillet or deep fryer.
2. Combine sugar and cinnamon in large bowl. Big enough you can toss your fried tortillas in. mix around till well mixed.
3. Cut tortillas, with a large knife or pizza cutter, into 6-8 pieces each depending on size. Really you can't do this wrong. Just make sure they fit in the frying oil and sugar mixture bowl.
4. Fry tortillas on each side till brown. It should only take about 30 seconds or so.
5. Remove from oil and toss in sugar mixture bowl till covered with cinnamon sugar. Remove and
put on plate to finish cooling. Repeat with each piece of tortilla till all done. Then enjoy!

I wouldn't call these authentic. It's something my friend's mom made for us when I was growing up in rural central California. I make them occasionally as a treat for my kids. We eat taco night every Tuesday at our house. My Husband is Mexican by heritage but Californian by birth. We both had that odd mix of almost authentic but not quite Mexican culture. We do our best to weave Mexican culture into Tori's life. To her, these are Mexican food. So when we thinking about Coco and what to make she wanted these. I tried to steer her toward the tamales I have in the freezer still from Christmas but it was a big NO. So we made our normal “Fiesta Night” and cooked up some Cinnamon Crisps to watch Coco.

This movie always makes me cry. I love it so much! I love it's message about family, family secrets, and finding balance between finding your path without having to cut off your family. Tori will look up at certain parts and say, “Are you crying again mom?” because she knows I am. I do EVERY TIME!

I told her she was kind of cheating on this one. Mexican culture is a big part of our life already and it was hard to come up with something new to discuss on this one. Then I realized we had never discussed Luchadors! So I still found a new thing to talk about.

I love all the colors in this movie and if you wanted to do a craft instead you could look up how to cut paper banners or make paper flowers. We do this often to celebrate Dia de Muertos.