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Spanish dessert recipes

Whether you're keen on flaky pastries, chocolate-dipped shortbread or icing-sugar dusted nutty treats, there's plenty of Spanish sweets to indulge here.
Alfajores payesBen Dearnley

The Spanish know exactly how to sweeten the post-prandial deal. After a leisurely lunch or dinner, who wouldn’t want to indulge in churros with spiked hot chocolate, drunken cinnamon cakes or aniseed-scented alfajores? And almendrados and polvorones are seemingly tailor-made for an afternoon-tea treat. Give these Spanish desserts a red-hot go.

Tortas de aceite

Tortas de aceite

Chocolate and cinnamon suspiros

Chocolate and cinnamon suspiros

Polvorones (almond shortbreads)

Polvorones

Fried pastries with orange-scented honey

Fried pastries with orange-scented honey

Alfajores payes

Alfajores payes

Almendrados

Almendrados

Orejones

Orejones

Flan with orange-caramel soaked raisins and wild figs

Alfajores

Orange-scented churros with spiked hot chocolate

Tarta de manzana

Turrón blando

Goat’s curd and mint tartlets

Drunken cinnamon cakes

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