Ensaimada mallorquina
Spain · Europe
- Short description
- This pastry is airy, coiled, and finished with a snowy layer of sugar.
- Ingredients
- Wheat flour, water, sugar, eggs, pork lard, yeast, and powdered sugar.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with bakery counters and travel boxes, often bought whole rather than as a small cookie.
- Common misconception
- It is not a cinnamon roll; the classic version is built around a light spiral dough and lard.
image credit
- creator:
- Lucia Condac
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY 3.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons, center-cropped/resized, and re-encoded for Gochizu.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.