Did you know that French macaroons are made with almonds? Or that one of the most typical Turkish sweets is made with pistachios? Today we\u2019re taking a trip around the world through a storm of walnuts, hazelnuts and pine nuts, crossing oceans and wallowing in sweet treats as we discover the most famous pastry dishes made with nuts from all over the world.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll find lots of nuts in Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. From Syria, there\u2019s chamiat<\/strong>, made with many layers of filo pastry with almonds inside and covered with honey and pistachios. It\u2019s very similar to the legendary Persian baklava<\/strong>, popular in Turkish and Balkan cooking, made with nuts wrapped in filo pastry and bathed in syrup or honey.<\/p>\n From India comes the sweet version of its popular samosas<\/strong>, filled here with nuts instead of meat or vegetables, and gajar barfi<\/strong>, a juicy carrot cake with sliced almonds or other chopped nuts such as pistachios on top. Somewhat denser are ghribat<\/strong> cracked biscuits, made with nuts such as almonds or peanuts, from Algeria or Morocco, like faqqas<\/strong>, which goes perfectly with tea all across North Africa.<\/p>\n Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, in Spain, we recover one of the most representative pastries from its north side: Santiago\u2019s cake<\/strong>, also called compostelana cake. The original recipe has just almonds, sugar and eggs. Like the panellets<\/strong>, more typical of the east, which are prepared with ground almonds and covered with pine nuts.<\/p>\n Named as a race, Paris-Brest<\/strong> is the world’s oldest bicycle route but also a classic French pastry; a ring of choux dough filled with praline and covered with hazelnuts. From the German cuisine another mythical sweet arrives, the Apfelstrudel<\/strong>, a puff pastry stuffed with apple that usually also includes raisins and nuts.<\/p>\n The Italian panforte <\/strong>is a dessert with Tuscany origins and prepared with honey, sugar, chocolate, flour, spices and a mix of nuts inside. However, the English spotted dick<\/strong> is juicier; a pudding stuffed with raisins and fruit often served with custard. We also found the mazurek<\/strong>, a sweet polish pastry with jam, filled with cashew nuts, almonds or walnuts and sugary fruits as a topping.<\/p>\n Tasty, isn\u2019t it? To finish, just a last sweet, the well-known and much-loved around the world: the American brownie<\/strong>, a delicious chocolate cake whose nuts give us an irresistible crunch in every bite. Yummy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you know that French macaroons are made with almonds? Or that one of the most typical Turkish sweets is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n