Dessert
Bienmesabe Granadino
Granada's thick cold almond cream: blanched almonds, egg yolks, cinnamon and lemon zest. A convent sweet sold from monastery turn-boxes since the 15th century.
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Granada Gastronomy
Desserts in Granada
End your meal with the traditional desserts of Granada: piononos, tocino de cielo and sweet treats born of Arab and Christian culinary influences.
Dessert
Dulces de Convento
Almond cookies, crumbly polvorones, ring pastries and marzipan figures made by Granada's enclosed nuns and sold through a wooden turn-box in the convent wall.
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Dessert
Pionono de Santa Fe
A syrup-soaked sponge cylinder filled with egg yolk cream and caramelised on top, created in 1897 in Santa Fe. Granada's iconic bite-sized royal pastry.
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