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Related to the family of flans and puddings , Calatrava bread may be one of the easiest recipes to prepare and at the same time most appreciated. Its basic ingredients could not be more: milk, eggs and sugar, to which is added a part of pastries or bread (hence its name) as the main characteristic. Come on, a classic egg flan only with a prize. Doesn't look bad at all, does it?

You will forgive me, I know that nowadays there are plenty of wonderful frozen desserts to beat the heat. An immense range of flavours, textures, colours... But I am a romantic and, despite enjoying everything new and novel, I cannot do without the sweets of a lifetime. That is why this summer we cannot stop making this Frozen Whiskey Cake and dust off good childhood memories.

The olive oil brioche that I bring you today has nothing to envy to the classic sweet of French origin enriched with butter. In this brioche you will find all the benefits of the previous one but with the extra virgin olive oil.

When Claudia suggested that I prepare a recipe with the Ilsa flan trays, I immediately replied that I wanted to make my tocinillos de cielo. They are such an exquisite and delicate snack that I wanted to show you how to make them at home. And it is that, whenever I serve them in a meeting, they triumph.

Coca de forner or baker is a flat and elongated bread very typical in Catalonia that was originally prepared with unenriched bread dough, painted with olive oil, garnished with pine nuts and sugar on top and sprinkled with anise when it came out. from the oven. Simple and very effective.

I don't know about you, but I can't think of a better combination than chocolate with nuts. And if we add a good homemade dough base to this mixture, which is already delicious, then we have... the best chocolate, walnut and shortcrust pastry cake in the world!

Don't you love easy and lucid recipes that make us look like authentic kitchen professionals with very little effort? Me. I adore them. Every recipe that is minimum effort and maximum brilliance goes straight to the sack and to be tested. And, if I like it, it is incorporated into my recipe book ipso facto . This is the recipe for the ruffle milk pie, wrinkled milk cake or galatopita. The latter is the original name of the creature, of Greek origin, which is to put a floor on it.

I had never made angel hair before and even thought I wasn't a big fan of this sweet concoction. This recipe is a special request from Doña Claudia and I am especially grateful to her because a homemade angel hair as it is ordered is something else, not even a point of comparison with the industrial bayonese fillings that I have known since I was a dwarf.

The origin of flan dates back to the Romans, where it was prepared in both a sweet and savory version. The sweet version was much sweeter than the one we know, since it was sweetened with honey. Initially pepper was added, yes, pepper as you hear it, until the pepper was replaced by the current caramel.

The Easter cake is a cake from Italy and is prepared during Easter to celebrate spring. It is ideal to take it to a picnic or outdoor meals. It is made up of puff pastry and a tasty filling, typical of the Ligurian culinary tradition, based on spinach, ricotta and eggs that are revealed when the first slice is cut.

Lola, author of Loleta, Food Life & Market, brings us a recipe that, if you don't watch, will become a vice at home. This is the traditional banofee recipe, with a biscuit base and a heart of banana, caramel and cream. I know, if you think of summer it's not the most appropriate thing but, wow, summer is still a long way off and one day is one day!

Get ready, because you are going to prepare churros at home! Yes, we have recently incorporated a great churrera and Miriam (author of The Winter Guest) brings us the classic recipe for churros to make them perfect at home.