Turron de Dona Pepa

Name: Turron de Dona Pepa
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Peruvian
Ingredients: 4 cups flour; 2 tbsp anise seeds; 2 cups honey or fig syrup; Colorful sugar sprinkles, for topping

Turrón de Doña Pepa/too-RRON deh DOH-nyah PEH-pah/

About this dish

Layered anise-scented biscuit stacked and coated in colorful fruit syrup, traditional for October's Lord of Miracles procession.

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Ingredients

🌾4 cups flour

🌿2 tbsp anise seeds

🍯2 cups honey or fig syrup

🎨Colorful sugar sprinkles, for topping

Method

Serves 2

Make a firm anise-flavored dough and roll thin.

Bake into flat rectangular biscuits.

Layer several biscuits, spreading thick fruit syrup between each layer.

Coat the entire stack generously with more syrup.

Decorate with colorful sugar sprinkles and let set before slicing.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Turrón de Doña Pepa is a traditional Peruvian sweet, prepared especially during Lima's October religious festivities.

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