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Mexico: Pastries

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Pan dulce from Mexico: recognise the concha, pan de muerto, tres leches, flan, buñuelo, marranitos, rosca de reyes, mantecadas, polvorón and cajeta. Good to know: A sweet bun with a shell-like sugar crust. Concha means shell. A sweet bread for the Day of the Dead. The dough strips represent bones. A sponge soaked in three kinds of milk. The name means ‘three milks’. A caramel custard, served turned out. It is ubiquitous in Latin America. A fried, crisp dough disc with cinnamon sugar. It belongs to Christmas. Pig-shaped cookies flavoured with molasses. The name means ‘little pigs’. A ring-shaped cake for Epiphany. A tiny figure is hidden inside. Small, muffin-like sponge cakes. They are eaten with coffee. A crumbly shortbread that melts in the mouth. It once came from Spain to Mexico. A caramel spread made from goat's milk. It resembles dulce de leche. What starts as plain knowledge quickly becomes one aha moment after another. In the end it is less about memorising than about recognising.

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Concha

A sweet bun with a shell-like sugar crust.

💡 Did you know? Concha means shell.

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Pan de muerto

A sweet bread for the Day of the Dead.

💡 Did you know? The dough strips represent bones.

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Tres Leches

A sponge soaked in three kinds of milk.

💡 Did you know? The name means ‘three milks’.

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Flan

A caramel custard, served turned out.

💡 Did you know? It is ubiquitous in Latin America.

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Foto: Baptiste Pons from Gandia / Burjassot, País Valencià, Spain · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Buñuelo

A fried, crisp dough disc with cinnamon sugar.

💡 Did you know? It belongs to Christmas.

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