Mallorca, Spain
Ensaimada
A coiled, paper thin spiral of sweet dough buried under powdered sugar. Mallorca's morning pastry.
240 minTime
8 gProtein each
mildSpice
Make it your way
Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.
The original387kcal
8 gprotein
2 gfibre
240minutes
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.
Ingredients
Method
6 steps- 1Mix the maida, yeast, 70 g sugar and salt. Add the eggs, warm milk and 20 g butter and knead 10 to 12 minutes.
- 2Cover and rest 30 minutes, then divide into 8 pieces.
- 3Oil the counter. Roll and then stretch each piece with your hands into a very thin, long rectangle.
- 4Spread with soft butter, roll up into a thin rope and coil loosely into a snail with gaps between the rings.
- 5Set on lined trays and prove until tripled.
- 6Bake at 180 C for 15 to 18 minutes and dust heavily with powdered sugar while warm.
Serve it like this
Serve warm with a mountain of powdered sugar and a cup of hot chocolate or coffee.