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I recently ate one of these in a restaurant in Gran Canaria - they didn't have a menu, you just pointed at things on a trolley. I loved it and asked what the name was but we couldn't quite communicate. I assume it's a Spanish dessert as it was a small, local-ish restaurant, but it might not be.

a delicious mystery dish

The bottom layer is some sort of dark caramel sauce, then there seems to be perhaps crumbled biscuits, then on top is what I think is Chantilly cream? It's quite a thick cream.

I'd like to try making the dessert myself, but Googling these things together hasn't come up with anything useful.

Thanks!

Abraham Ray
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Kieran
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  • So it was sauce on the bottom? I ask because I would’ve expected it to flow to the bottom of the vessel if that was the case. The picture looks more like some sort of cake layer on the bottom, like a trifle – Joe Jan 17 '22 at 21:31
  • Also worth mentioning that the Canaries have more than just Spanish influence. Unfortunately, I need to catalog my cookbooks as I couldn’t find my copy of Los Isleños to see if anything similar is mentioned in there – Joe Jan 17 '22 at 21:35

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This is a variation of "Polvito Uruguayo", which is a typical dessert of Grand Canary Island, that is made with cookies, dulce de leche (caramel), and chantilly cream, and which can also be topped with a "suspiros de moya" (a type of sweet meringue).

NOTE: suggested edit of "suspiros de monja" (nuns sighs) is incorrect. The meringue is in fact named after the location "Moya" (a town on Grand Canary Island) which famously produces them.

Mr Shane
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