Puffs of Air

Buñuelos de Viento

Preparation info
  • Serves

    Four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Spain on a Plate

By María José Sevilla

Published 1992

  • About

Although the recipe for these puffs is from Madrid, the special buñuelo shops in the Barceloneta area of Barcelona make ones that are particularly light. I love to sit on a bench in the spring sunshine in this Mediterranean port, eating hollow buñuelos, sprinkled with lots of sugar, out of a paper cone. The cone keeps them warm until they are gone and, needless to say, they disappear — like all good things - far too fast. Some traditional recipes make the buñuelos with