A Peruvian dessert of Hispano-Arabic ancestry
The conquistadors did not arrive alone, they brought with them various animals such as cows, pigs, goats and later chickens and rabbits. They also brought aubergines, coriander, wheat, vines, onions, spinach, parsley, rice, beans, chickpeas, lentils, sesame, cumin, oregano, fruits such as peaches, apricots, sultanas, almonds, oranges, figs, limes, dates, and of course sugar cane.
And a gastronomic crossbreeding began, especially when the first settlers from Andalusia and the Basque Country arrived as colonisers. And at the same time they brought Moorish servants with their Arab dishes, especially their exquisite sweets, among which were the buñuelo, the suspiro, as well as the picarón and the alfajor de Mil Hojas, which is an alfajor with several layers of puff pastry filled with blancmange and sprinkled with icing sugar.