# The best Spanish Easter sweets

Torrijas, pestiños, mona de Pascua and bartolillos: the traditional Easter sweets of each region of Spain.

- 73 votes · 15 items
- Mar 25, 2026 · jaime rodríguez
- https://even.best/en/l/2843/the-best-spanish-easter-sweets

## Top 15

1. **Torrijas** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Bread soaked in milk, battered and fried.
2. **Leche frita** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Thick custard, battered and fried.
3. **Bartolillos** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Fried custard turnovers from Madrid.
4. **Pestiños** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Fried dough with honey from Andalusia.
5. **Mona de Pascua** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Sweet bread decorated with eggs.
6. **Flores fritas** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Fried flowers made with a mould.
7. **Hojuelas** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Thin fried sheets with honey.
8. **Huesillos** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Long fried dough pieces with sugar.
9. **Crespells** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Mallorcan cookies.
10. **Gañotes** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Fried pastry tubes with honey from Cádiz.
11. **Rubiols** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Sweet Mallorcan pasties.
12. **Buñuelos de viento** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fried puffs, sometimes cream-filled.
13. **Borrachuelos** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Sweet wine pastry filled with angel hair jam.
14. **Panquemado** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Valencian sweet bun.
15. **Rosquillas** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Fried doughnuts dusted with sugar.

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