Chancaca is a typical Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian, warm, sweet

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made of raw unrefined sugar from sugarcane. It is often flavored with

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peel and cinnamon, and is consumed on

sopaipilla A sopaipilla, sopapilla, sopaipa, or cachanga is a kind of fried pastry and a type of quick bread served in several regions with Spanish heritage in the Americas. The word sopaipilla is the diminutive of sopaipa, a word that entered Spanish from ...

s or picarones. Chancaca is also a synonym for

panela Panela () or rapadura (Portuguese pronunciation: ) is an unrefined whole cane sugar, typical of Central and Latin America. It is a solid form of sucrose derived from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane juice. Panela is known by other na ...

, the unrefined sugar used to make chancaca syrup. In Colombia,

chancacas Chancacas are a traditional Colombian coconut candy from Buenaventura, Colombia, a seaport city on the Pacific Ocean. They are made with panela and coconut. Fresh coconut is preferable to dried shredded coconut, but either can be used. The chancaca ...

are a traditional coconut candy.

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