Panettone Bread Pudding
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always enjoyed Panettone with hot chocolate during the month of December and specially for Xmas. What could be a simpler pleasure than a sweet, buttery, and fruit flavored bread that comes in a box which makes it the gift of the season among friends and family in Peru? Well, last week, I broke my tradition and tried something completely new — I made a Panettone bread pudding.
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Pisco Balls
Anyone who celebrates the Holidays in Southern cities such as New Orleans is familiar and probably quite fond of Bourbon Balls — the boozy bonbons made with vanilla wafers, pecans, confectioner’s sugar, corn syrup, and of course, bourbon. Inspired by this legendary dessert and the Manjar Blanco bonbons I made a couple of weeks ago, I began to imagine a Peruvian version that would be a truly sweet one-bite vehicle for Pisco.
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Manjar Blanco Bonbons
Manjar blanco is the star in many Peruvian desserts — it’s the creamy custard in the Suspiro Limeño, the glue in the Alfajores cookie sandwich, or the filling in the fluffy Pionono roll. But it can also fly solo as a Manjar Blanco Bonbon, and wearing a petite coat of cinnamon powder and a single sugar pearl, it dares you, dares you, to only eat one.
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Chumbeque, Anise Syrup Cookie Sandwich
Have you ever been called a chumbeque? If you have, then it was probably by a Peruvian like me who is obsessed with desserts, pastries, syrups, cookies, and cakes that date back to the time of the Spanish Viceroyalty. We grow up with them, fall in love with them, and celebrate every occasion with them. We even use them as a term of affection: “you are a chumbeque!” — not literally, of course, otherwise you’d be a shortbread cookie sandwich coated in a sticky anise flavored syrup, and I would be eating you morning noon, and night.
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The second recipe to use the chicha morada base, is a mazamorra morada or purple corn pudding. The pudding is similar in flavor to the chicha morada drink, but with some dried prunes, a creamy consistency, and a sprinkle of cinnamon, there is no mistake that this is a dessert. And as you know, desserts are like medicine to me. Read more →