Antequeran sponge and almond cake

I love the word bienmesabe, which literally means, “tastes good to me.” With a name like that, it could be applied to dozens of desserts throughout the Hispanic world. Diego’s version derives from the cloistered nuns of Antequera’s Convent of Belén, ten of whom survive and churn out industrial quantities of cookies and cakes. It is thought that these impassioned cooks inherited the recipe from the Moors, kings of the sweet tooth. Antequera’s ot