CHILEAN CHOCOLATE & CARAMEL COOKIE STICKS - CUCHUFLIS - 📷 Food Photo Shoot 📷
CHILEAN CUCHUFLIS ( choo-choo-flees ) are one of those favorite sweets in Chile.
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Chile is a very unique country. It is very geographically very isolated from the rest of the world, even South America. To the west is the Pacific ocean. To the east are the Andes Mountains. To the North is the Atacam desert, the driest on the planet. And, to the South, Antartica. So, it's kind of like an island. It is very easy to see why it took a while and several attempts for the Spanish to conquer this place.
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I used the word caramel in the title, but these cookies actually contain manjar (maun-har), which is just slightly different than caramel. The Chileans use it a lot in their pastries and desserts.
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Basically, cuchuflis are hollow cookie sticks. It is not uncommon for a bundle of cuchuflis to be served as a birthday dessert instead of cake.
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This past week, I spent 5 days in Santiago. I am still working on a post about that, but it is not yet ready for prime time. However, I did want to share a photo or two. This first photo is from my hotel looking North East towards the Andes Mountains. This area of town is known as Vitacura and is a very, very nice part of town. If you ever want to travel to Santiago, this is the part of town you want to stay in.
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I used this next pic in my last post also, but I just love it, so I am using it again. This is me with 2 of my sisters and one of my brothers goofing off at Parque Aruaco Mall:
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I have been threatening this for days, but I promise, a travel post of Santiago is coming, really, I mean it.
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I hope you enjoyed these photos. My posts are always focused on the photos and a very, very distant second is my writing ability.
RECIPE is available upon request
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Wow, they look delicious! I'd love to get the recipe :-)
I agree ....yummmm
Any writing that's a lot better than mine is cool, yours is unique too. Did you use dark chocolate ;) that Santiago post us taking a long time innit?? Peace!
German dark chocolate actually. Yeah, I am working on that post right now actually
Oh nice..no pressure ;)
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those look amazing
You are always so kind. Thanks so much for your continued support, I really appreciate it
Mmmmm! I wish I could eat some right now they look so delicous , your photos are so awesome ! Thanks for shareing ! Drool! Drool ! 😋😋😋
Thanks so much Karen. I can always count on you for an awesome comment
That's good news...you will not totally abandon making me hungry on a regular basis for want of travel ( : Thanks for the great post, looking forward to reading about your adventures down yonder. Have fun. Oh, and these snacksticks look really really good.
Thanks so much for the awesome comment. Don't fret, I still intend to post tempting sweets as often as I can.
"OH GOOD"...
better than TWIX probably)))
yes, way better. I almost mentioned twix in my post, but I chose not to. Thanks so much for commenting @aksinya
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