One of the tastiest recipes of sweet potato and chestnut desserts, typical of the feast of All Saints Day. The sweet potato is native to South America where it is called "batata" or "comote" depending on the region. It came to Spain with the regular potato but was typically used in making desserts....

Coconut flan with grated coconut and coconut milk. During the XIX century, many catalonian emigrated to Cuba and Puerto Rico. Most of them made fortune a nd returned with habits and customs: the use of some spice was introduced, coconut and pineapple, rum, the habit of smoking cigars,and many of the "havaneres". ...

They are sweets made with hazelnuts, sugar and eggwhite. The merengue is traditional in many regions. They are prepared in the pastry shops of the Vendrell since a century ago. Mixing egg white with other products and baking it in the oven has been done since the old times, as they are now, that the base of some nougats is of egg white, like that of Alicante....

It is a tradition during the Festival of San Juan to have these biscuits with fruit, among others. This is a biscuit with sweetened orange. The orange and the limon are the two citrus fruits that arrived from China, and completely integrated the Mediterranean. ...

The crema catalana is one of the most characteristic desserts found in the Catalonia cuisine. The convent of Santa Clara is famous for making the best ones. Ther is a popular tradition where it is recommended to take there a "pack of dozen eggs" with thirteen eggs to ask no rain....

Coconut flan with grated coconut and coconut milk. During the XIX century, many catalonian emigrated to Cuba and Puerto Rico. Most of them made fortune and returned with habits and customs: the use of some spice was introduced, ...

This cream desert can be prepared with almond starch, wheat flour or with both using equal amount from each. We find it from Reus even Tortosa. Is a desert that appears in medieval recipes around Europe. It used to be consumed as a hen or birds soups too....

Sugared Coca from the land of Ebro, where in the old days it was prepared at home for the fiesta celebrations. It is made with moscatel wine (made from moscatel grapes) or other sweet wines, flour, oil, aniseed, sugar and essences....

This is a very Catalonian way of consuming peaches in summer, soaked in sweet or black wine and macerated with citric peels and cinnamon....

The apples carry many legendary tales and myths; it is the prohibited fruit that Adam and Eve tried in heaven. It is also the fruit that sparked off the Troy war. In this recepy its baked in oven with a drop of moscatel, honey and nuts....