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Panellets, the traditional Autumn almond cakes in
CataloniaMany families use to make their Panellets on the
1st of November. Almond is the basic ingredient
Ingredients for the basic dough: 1kg smashed almond (powder) 800 gr sugar400 gr boiled potatoThe peel of one lemon
Ingredients to decorate the basic dough balls200 gr pine nuts100 gr cherries100 gr quince jelly100 gr coconutYou can decorate the cakes with everything you want
First, we boil and smash the boiled potatoes. Make it very smooth
How we do make Panellets ?
Put the smashed almond in a big bowl
Add the sugar
Add the smashed potato
Grate the lemon peel and add it to the dough
Mix all the ingredients well
Once the basic dough is made, we divide it into 4 parts.One part will be used to make coconut panellets, The second part is for pine nuts ones.The third one is for cherry ones.The fourth part is for quince panellets.
We make small balls and we decorate them
We decorate the balls with the different ingredients: coconut, quince, pine nut or cherry.
The different kind of panellets are ready to be cooked.
We brought the panellets to the baker’s to be put into the oven.
The next day we went to the baker’s to pick our panellets up.
Look at them: they look , smell and taste delicious !
Parents also could taste our panellets. They did taste very good !