Happy Halloween to all!!!!!
Let me explain you that here in Catalonia we don’t celebrate Halloween as USA style. Here we celebrate “La Castanyada” and it’s a popular holiday. A long time ago it was a holiday related with funeral rituals but today is celebrated like an Autumn party or celebration. It’s typical to drink “moscatell” (an alcoholic drink like sweet wine) and eat “castanyes” (chestnuts), “moniatos” (sweet potatoes) and “panellets” (little individual cakes with dried fruits) which are what we’re going to make today!!!!
First we prepare the ingredients to do the paste.
We will grate a lemon.
200gr of sugar
250gr of ground almonds
And a potato that we will boil
When it’s soft, we peel it and smash it. Then, we add the almonds, sugar and lemon and do a paste that we inwrap with a plastic film and put into the fridge about 6 hours.
Six hours later, we will make “panellets”!!!
With a part of the paste we will make pine-nut “panellets”. They’re the most appreciate.
We do little balls, put them in egg and add pine-nuts.
In another part of the paste, we add ground coconut and can give them a pyramid shape.
And with the rest of the paste, we do a rectangular shape, put them in egg and add almond.
Then we preheat the oven at 250ºC and we bake the “panellets” during 8 minutes.
This is the result!!!!
They’re delicious!!!
Just for fun, we have played “Trick or treat” as USA style!!!!
D-Trick or treat!!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
