Carolinas de bilbao
carolina pastry
The Carolina is a typical pastry of Bilbao, Spain. It consists of a miniature pastry crust filled with custard and topped with a meringue cone. Typically, the cone has a coating of sweet egg yolk glaze and dark chocolate. The principle ingredients are: meringue, puff pastry or shortcrust pastry tartlet, egg yolk, and chocolate. The Marchioness of Parabere included a recipe for the Carolina in her first book, Confitería y Repostería, in 1930. In the book, she says the Carolina was invented by a pastry chef from Bilbao. His daughter, Carolina, loved meringue, so he put the meringue in a puff pastry tartlet to prevent her from getting dirty. She liked it so much, he named it after her.
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Recipes

Sweet Carolina Cakes Recipe | Spanish cake recipes | Basco
Carolina cakes are a typical patisserie cake from Bilbao. The perfectly pipped meringue sat on an egg custard and drizzled with melted chocolate and a sweet egg yolk mix looks stunning, as well as tasty. A cake that has become an icon in Bilbao, Spain...