Spanish Dessert Recipes

Churros, Spanish doughnuts beloved throughout the New World, easily marry with so many flavors, from chocolate to fruit sauces. Although they are traditionally shaped with a churrera, a tool with a plastic or wooden plunger that extrudes the dough into its traditional fluted shape (which is key, or they turn out hard and doughy), I recommend spooning the mixture into a cake decorators' pastry bag with a 2-inch star tip (the kind used to decorate cakes).

This custard dessert is also known in Spain as flan, in Italy as crema caramella and in France as crhme renversie. Creme caramel is a custard that has been baked in a caramel-coated mold. When the chilled custard is turned out onto a serving plate it is automatically glazed and sauced with the caramel in the mold.