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Pilar's Chilean Food & Garden

Pilar's Chilean Food & Garden

A recipe blog by a Chilean living in the USA

  • Chilean
    • The Chilean Pantry
    • Chilean menus ideas
    • Chilean Appetizers & Beverages
    • Chilean Breads
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    • Chilean Cakes & Bakes
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    • Chilean Desserts
    • Chilean Jams & Jellies
    • Chilean Meat
    • Chilean Once
    • Chilean Pasta, Rice & Potatoes
    • Chilean Poultry
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    • US American food
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  • Savory
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Chilean Cakes & Bakes

Chileans are famously sweet-obsessed. We have a long tradition of sweets, and many are still made at home. The Spaniards introduced sugar, which was very expensive until the local production of sugar beets took root.

Historical Influences:

The most significant influences on cakes came from Europe. First, the Spanish nuns and the adoption of the dulce de leche (called Manjar in Chile), Huevo mol, and merengue. The Milhojas cake and all the pastries known as Dulces Chilenos: Chilenitos, Alfajores, Conejos, Palitas, Mil Hojas manjar huevo mol, berlines, Pear Empanadas, and Merenguitos con manjar.

Dulces Chilenos

In the late 1800s, several waves of immigrants from Germany and East Europe brought traditional cakes like Black Forest Cake, kuchens, fruitcakes, and strudels.

During the 1900s, Arabs, especially Palestinians, came to Chile and brought their pastries. There are excellent baklavas and Aristelos (Namoura semolina cake) to be had in Chile, too.

Chilean Bakery

Today, going to a bakery to get a cake is a fun adventure. Birthday cakes are hugely important, and it is not weird to tell people what cake you are having or debate it with family and friends. You need to decide if you want:

  • Torta de milhojas Thousand layer cake, Pompadour, Cielo (Heaven), Amor or Mixta
  • Torta de Panqueque, a cake with thin layers of spongy cake with many different fillings Panqueque Naranja (orange), Panqueque Trufa, Panqueque manjar nuez (Dulce de leche and walnut), etc
  • Bizcocho (soft cake with Chantilly cream and fresh fruits), Torta de Frutillas (strawberries) con crema, Torta de Piña (pineapple).
  • Torta de Merengue, meringue layers with Chantilly cream and fresh fruits Merengue Lucuma, Merengue Frambuesa (raspberry or strawberry), Merengue Castaña (Chestnut).
  • or other: Alfajor cake, Tres Leches cake, and much more.

In Chile, buttercream and fondant cakes are not widespread, but some bakeries will do it upon request.
The word Torta in Chile applies only to layered cakes. Torta in Mexico is a sandwich.
Popular sweets to make at home for Once: Brazo de Reina, Pie de limón, Panqueques con manjar, and any pound cake or bundt cake your imagination can picture.

Chilean bakery

Some recommendations for bakeries in Santiago, Chile:

  • For Dulces Chilenos Dulcería Montolín
  • For Tortas de Panqueques and Merengue Dulcería Las Palmas
  • For Milhojas Tortas Angélicas
  • Other bakeries: Riesco.
Chilean Cake

Chilean Pineapple Cake

Berliners Pastries

Chilean Raspberry Kuchen

Apple Chocolate Kuchen

German Walnut Kuchen

Poppy seed layer cake.

Poppy Seed Layer Cake

Chestnut Meringue Cake

Merengue Castaña Chestnut Cake

Torta Pompadour Banana Milhojas Cake

Pan de Pascua Chilean Dulce de leche Fruitcake

Rustic German Apple Kuchen

Kuchen de Migas Chilean Apple Crumb

Thin Layers Chocolate Cake (Torta de panqueque)

Thin Layers Panqueque Chocolate Cake

Easy Cherry Kuchen

Panqueque Manjar Nuez Dulce de Leche Walnut Layer Cake

Queque de Miel de Palma (Palm Honey Cake)

Chestnut Meringue Cake

Meringue Discs

Panqueques con Dulce de Leche

German Peach Strudel

Milhojas or Thousand Layers Cake

Easy Torta Pompadour Cake with Puff Pastry

Easy Torta Pompadour Cake with Puff Pastry

Easy Milhojas Cake (no-bake)

Chilean Tres Leches Cake

Peach Kuchen de Duraznos

Poppy Seed Kuchen de Amapolas

Chilean Pie de Limón Lemon Meringue

Dulce de Leche Meringue Trifle

Brazo de Reina Chilean Dulce de Leche Roll

Torta Mixta Raspberry Dulce de Leche Chocolate Cake

Chilean Papaya Upside-down Cake

Basic Chilean Bundt Cake

Conejos Chilean Sweet Bread

Lemon Curd Cake

Lucuma Dulce de Leche Puff Pastry

Lucuma Dulce de Leche Puff Pastry

Thin Layer Raspberry Truffle Cake

Thin Layer Raspberry Truffle Cake

Torta Frutillas Strawberries and Cream Cake

Queque de miel Honey Pound Cake

Namoura Semolina Cake

Lucuma Cake with Meringue

Walnut Chocolate Kuchen

Chilean Meringue Cake

Easy Meringue Cake

Chilean Orange Layer Cake

Lucuma Pound Cake

Torta Alfajor Chocolate Cake

German style Cheese Kuchen

Torta Manjar Nuez Dulce de Leche Walnut Cake

Easy German Stollen without Marzipan

Chocolate Fruitcake

Old Fashioned Fruitcake

Chilean Ricotta Kuchen

Chilean Chilenitos

Chilean Empolvados or Powder puffs

Apple Strudel

Chilean Pan de Pascua

Cielo (Heaven) Cake

Chilean Pear Empanadas

Panqueque Naranja Orange Thin Layer Cake

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