Sweet passions: the Torrijas Route

2024/03/21

Most of the festivities on our calendar are identified with our gastronomy, and Easter is no exception.

At this time our mouths are watering thinking about one of our best-known homemade sweets, torrijas, of which we all have an indelible memory from our childhood, which we enrich year after year with the new versions that bakeries offer us, bakeries, market stalls, bars and restaurants in Madrid.

We are talking about a dessert that has evolved from the simplest and most exquisite way of taking advantage of stale bread, " slices of bread soaked in milk previously seasoned with cinnamon sticks, lemon or orange peel and which are heated and left to rest or of white wine, coated with egg and fried in oil and seasoned with cinnamon and covered with honey or a sugar-based syrup "*, to a catalog of infinite signature pastry proposals that year after year show us that , speaking of pastries, pastries and gastronomy, creativity has no limits

HERE we invite you to discover all the places in Madrid where you can discover the sweet passions of this Holy Week and the municipal markets where on March 26 and 27 you can enjoy a market torrijada with showcooking and tasting

A route that will take you hand in hand with tradition and avant-garde to pastry shops, bakeries, bars, restaurants, markets... that will fascinate you with their torrijas.

* ASEMPAS : Association of artisan entrepreneurs in the pastry sector of Madrid.

Discover the complete list here.