Tortas locas

01 / ABOUT THE DISH

About the dish

Tortas locas (lit. crazy cakes) are traditional Spanish pastries originating from Malaga. They consist of puff pastry, a custard (made from milk, eggs, flour, sugar, lemon, vanilla, and cinnamon), egg yolk glaze (consisting of egg yolks, sugar, flour, syrup, and orange food coloring), frosting (water and sugar), and red cherries in syrup. These small pastries should always be freshly made and creamy. They were created by a confectioner who decided to fill two rounds of puff pastry with custard, then topped them with orange frosting and a cherry. Tortas locas were named after a 1954 song by Luisa Linares and Los Galindos.