guatemalan bread

Consecutive Day 3629 of 3654 — Champurradas, The Guatemalan Cookies

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Champurradas is what we call the most popular pan tostado [crunchy sweet bread] in Guatemala. It’s round shape and crunchy sweet taste with sesame seeds is quite possibly the least expensive and most popular Guatemalan cookie, although we don’t think of champurradas as cookies. Champurradas are also quite popular as the sweet bread to dunk … Read more

Guatemalan Bread: Molletes, Obispos and Gusanitos

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I don’t know who started the rumor that there’s a poor selection and quality of Guatemalan bread. I guess that if you really look, you can find an amazing variety of bread and high quality as well. In Antigua Guatemala we are so lucky to have a quite a few good panaderías [bakeries] such as … Read more

4th Year Anniversary of AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com

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Cutting a cake for an anniversary is quite commom through out the world, including Guatemala, however, here we also have an alternative: La Torta, this huge sweet bread, takes the place of the cake for many Guatemalan families. The sweet Guatemalan bread in this picture comes from a very popular bakery in La Antigua Guatemala … Read more

Guatemalan Bread Sampler Revisited

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The last time I showed you a sampler of Guatemalan bread was on May 1, 2007. Wow, times flies! Today’s photo was taken at Panadería Santa Clara, about one block South of Tanque de la Unión. Panadería Santa Clara is one of my favorite places to buy bread in La Antigua Guatemala. The selection goes … Read more

Guatemalan Bread Sampler: Name the Bread

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Details, details, details. To celebrate the first anniversary of AntiguaDailyPhoto on May 1st, 2007, I published a sampler photo of sweet bread from Guatemala which included tortas, cubiletes, champurradas, cemitas and other such goodies. The Guatemalan sweet bread sampler was a hit and still remains among the most visited and commented of the over 1,057 … Read more

Buying the Afternoon Delivery Guatemalan Bread

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Somethings are changing in the Guatemalan lifestyle. Others, luckily, remain the same, like hot-just-out-of-the-oven bread delivery in the rainy afternoons in La Antigua Guatemala. Here we see an indigenous woman purchasing some pan frances and sweet bread to prepare the afternoon “refa” (short for refacción or snack break), the only refacción some people got in … Read more

Guatemalan Alligators in the Brink of Extinction

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That’s right, these poor fellas will be history pretty soon! This variation of the Guatemalan bread is known locally as lagartos (alligators) and they are sold for about Q15/US$2 a piece. The bread is semi-sweet and works especially well for dunking in your hot cup of Guatemalan chocolate. By the way, did you guys know … Read more