• Filling
• Dough

These delicious, crispy empanadas are baked from yeast dough with a pumpkin filling. The filling is made by simmering the pumpkin in a sugar syrup made from piloncillo, a type of evaporated unrefined cane sugar that, unlike regular brown sugar, is read more

Capirotada is a Mexican Easter pudding traditionally baked on Good Friday. It's made by layering stale bread soaked in a spicy syrup with cinnamon and cloves, various dried fruits, nuts, and cheeses in a mold, and then baking. read more

• Piloncillo sugar syrup
• Buñuelo

Mexican buñuelos, unlike the Spanish doughnuts of the same name, are made in the form of thin, crispy flatbreads fried in oil. No Christmas in Mexico is complete without them. Buñuelos are often flavored with anise, added to the dough instead of... read more