World Flavors Cookbook

Travesseiros de Sintra

Name: Travesseiros de Sintra
Cook time: 20 min
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: Puff pastry; Filling: Egg yolks, sugar, ground almonds, cinnamon

Puff pastry "pillows" filled with a sweet almond and egg cream, a specialty of the town of Sintra.

Cuisine: Portugal

Ingredients

Puff pastry
Filling: Egg yolks, sugar, ground almonds, cinnamon

Instructions

1. Make the almond cream filling. 2. Cut pastry into rectangles. 3. Fill and roll into "pillows." 4. Bake until golden and crisp. 5. Roll in sugar.