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| An assortment of Christmas Sweet Delicacies |
We feel a roundup of the Christmas recipes we've published over the years is called for although we're entirely unapologetic that they're almost exclusively sweet treats. They're impossible to resist. In Spain, Christmas Eve is usually celebrated as a family, with dinner consisting of seafood (particularly langoustines), cured meats (especially ham and Iberian products) and some other dish that the family considers special and at the end of the meal they eat an array of sweets including truchas and turrón, drink and sing Christmas carols.
- Truchas de cabello de ángel (Angel Hair Turnovers)
- Truchas de Batata (Sweet Potato Turnovers)
- Truchas de membrillo (Quince turnovers)
- Turrón de Jijona (Spanish Almond Candy)
- Turrón de Alicante (Hard Nougat)
- Turrón de Chocolate (Chocolate Fudge)
- Turrón de gofio (Gofio nougat)
- Pella de gofio dulce (Sweet gofio roll)
- Polvorones (Powder Cakes)
There are also the Secret Christmas Recipes of Tenerife Nuns, Almendras Garrapiñadas (Candied Almonds), an indispensable part of every fiesta, but also popular at Christmas and Frangollo, a Canarian Dessert, which although not locally touted for Christmas has all of the flavours we associate with the season. For Los Reyes on 6th January, Roscón de Reyes (Crown of Kings).