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Mantecadas are spongy pastries originating in Spain. Perhaps the best known mantecadas are from Northwestern Spain, being a traditional product of the city of Astorga, province of León, as well as the nearby Maragateria comarca. They taste very much like pound cake.
Other Spanish regions also prepare mantecadas. There is a factory producing mantecadas in
Mantecadas recipe
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Other type of Mantecadas (not of Astorga) recipeMantecada con amor. Colombia style
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Mantecadas are spongy pastries originating in Spain. Perhaps the best known mantecadas are from Northwestern Spain, being a traditional product of the city of Astorga, province of León, as well as the nearby Maragateria comarca. They taste very much like pound cake.
Other Spanish regions also prepare mantecadas. There is a factory producing mantecadas in Sardón de Duero
Sardón de Duero is a municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 668 inhabitants. There is a factory producing mantecadas in Sardón de Duero, as w ...
, Valladolid Province and another in Maliaño, Cantabria. The ''Casa Salinas'' bakery in Tudela, Navarre, reputed for its excellent mantecadas, closed down in January 2011.
Mantecadas are baked in square or rectangular box-shaped paper ''"cajillas"'' instead of in the typical muffin round paper cups. The mantecada leaves a characteristic cross-shaped silhouette on the paper when it is removed. In the Alt Maestrat ''comarca'' the mantecada square paper cups are known as ''"caixetes"''.
There is a type of cake known as mantecada in Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
and Venezuela where the whole is cut into pieces after baking. Certain brands commercialize packed mini-mantecadas in Mexico and Latin America.
Mantecadas should not be confused with mantecados, a much denser, non spongy very different type of pastry.
Mantecadas de Astorga
The most famous Mantecadas are the ones prepared in Astorga town under the name Mantecadas de Astorga. Their ingredients are eggs,flour
Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods. Cereal flour, particularly wheat flour, is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many culture ...
, butter and sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...
. Butter is essential in the preparation and differentiates the mantecadas de Astorga from average bizcocho or magdalenas
A muffin is an individually portioned baked product, however the term can refer to one of two distinct items: a part-raised flatbread (like a crumpet) that is baked and then cooked on a griddle (typically unsweetened), or an (often sweetened) ...
(muffins)./ref> They are a protected product as per Geographical indication in the European Union.
See also
* List of quick breads * Madeleine (cake) *References
External links
Other type of Mantecadas (not of Astorga) recipe
Spanish pastries Castilian-Leonese cuisine Quick breads Sweet breads {{spain-cuisine-stub