A Time of Yummy Goodness

After a walking tour today, our guide told us about two specialties in the area. One is a pastry roll made from potato flour, dusted in powdered sugar that you then dip in hot chocolate. And the other was an almond cake made of nothing but almonds and sugar and butter. So after about three hours of walking around the town, we stopped with Shane and Mika for coffee and hot chocolate and the local specialties. I thought that I would like the almond cake more but the potato-flour roll dusted with powdered sugar was heavenly. It was almost like an unglazed Krispy Kreme doughnut, which is also made with potato flour. My hot chocolate was so thick and rich that I almost needed a spoon to drink it. Our guide told us to dip our potato roll into the hot chocolate, and I promise you that combination was a piece of heaven. After our rest in the little café, we stopped by a pearl shop to look at some Mallorca blue pearls.Read more