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Cañoncitos de dulce de leche
Cañoncitos: Argentine puff-pastry tubes filled with dulce de leche and dusted with icing sugar
ArgentinianLook at the tray of facturas in any Argentine panadería and the little cannons are easy to spot: flaky tubes of puff pastry, baked around metal moulds and filled from both ends with dulce de leche, then finished with a snowfall of icing sugar. They come from the Italian cannoncini, but here the filling is almost always dulce de leche. Each bite is crisp, buttery and shattering on the outside with a dense, caramel middle, and they sit on the Sunday table next to medialunas and bolas de fraile. Undercooking is the problem to avoid: pale pastry goes soft as soon as the filling goes in, so bake until it is a deep gold all over. Use all-butter puff pastry, and metal cannoli or cream-horn tubes (or rolls of foil). Chef's tip: wrap the strips without stretching them, overlapping each turn by a third; stretched pastry shrinks in the oven and the tubes split.
- Total time
- 55 min
- Difficulty
- medium
- Serves
- 16
Ingredients
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Method
0/8 doneStep 1: Heat the oven to 400°F (350°F fan) and line two baking trays. Grease 16 metal cannoli tubes (or make tubes from rolled foil).
Step 2: Roll 1 ⅛ lb all-butter puff pastry on a floured worktop into a 30 × 40 cm rectangle about 3 mm thick and cut it into 16 strips 2 cm wide.
Step 3: Starting at one end of a tube, wind a strip around it in a spiral, overlapping each turn by a third and without stretching. Press the end down and lay seam side down on the tray.
Step 4: Brush lightly with 1 egg, sprinkle with 2 tbsp sugar and chill for 10 minutes so the pastry firms up.
10 minStep 5: Bake until puffed and deep golden all over, including underneath.
20 minStep 6: Cool for 5 minutes, then slide the pastry off the tubes with a gentle twist. Cool completely.
Step 7: Fill each tube from both ends with 14 oz thick dulce de leche (repostero) using a piping bag with a plain nozzle.
Step 8: Dust with 2 tbsp icing sugar just before serving. Eat the same day.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 230 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 28 g
- Fat
- 12 g
- Fibre
- 1 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does cañoncitos de dulce de leche take?
- About 55 minutes in total: 30 minutes to prepare and 25 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 16 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegetarian?
- Yes. It has no meat or fish.
- What can I use instead of egg?
- 1 tbsp ground flaxseed + 3 tbsp water per egg, left for 5 minutes (baking only; vegan).
- What can I use instead of sugar?
- Caster sugar, same amount.
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