What is this Spanish dessert?
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.
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!
Best Answer
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.
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