Panellets, the traditional Autumn almond cakes in

CataloniaMany families use to make their Panellets on the

1st of November. Almond is the basic ingredient

Ingredients for the basic dough: 1kg smashed almond (powder) 800 gr sugar400 gr boiled potatoThe peel of one lemon

Ingredients to decorate the basic dough balls200 gr pine nuts100 gr cherries100 gr quince jelly100 gr coconutYou can decorate the cakes with everything you want

First, we boil and smash the boiled potatoes. Make it very smooth

How we do make Panellets ?

Put the smashed almond in a big bowl

Add the sugar

Add the smashed potato

Grate the lemon peel and add it to the dough

Mix all the ingredients well

Once the basic dough is made, we divide it into 4 parts.One part will be used to make coconut panellets, The second part is for pine nuts ones.The third one is for cherry ones.The fourth part is for quince panellets.

We make small balls and we decorate them

We decorate the balls with the different ingredients: coconut, quince, pine nut or cherry.

The different kind of panellets are ready to be cooked.

We brought the panellets to the baker’s to be put into the oven.

The next day we went to the baker’s to pick our panellets up.

Look at them: they look , smell and taste delicious !

Parents also could taste our panellets. They did taste very good !