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Sweets for the Sweet
By Jane Runyon |
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1 Have you ever eaten in an American-Mexican restaurant? If you have, you have probably looked at the dessert menu. In the United States, you usually find fried ice cream, sopaipillas, or flan on the menu. Fried ice cream is usually a scoop of ice cream rolled in corn flakes and then deep fried. Sopaipillas are made with sweet dough. The dough is rolled out and cut into squares. The squares are placed in hot oil to cook. While in the oil, they puff up like a sofa pillow. That's where the name comes from. When the dough is a golden brown, it is taken out of the oil and drained. When it's time to eat a sopaipilla, you bite the corner off and coat the inside with jam or honey. Flan is custard. The top of the custard has been covered with sugar. The sugar is then burned to caramelize it.