Peruvian Pionono Recipe

I always relate to Pionono with my childhood and those paths back home with the obligatory stop at the pastry shop on the corner. sure this quick and delicious preparation sweet , just like me and you would like to learn how to prepare it, right? Let’s go to the recipe!

How to prepare pionono

The time we use to prepare the Pionono is short and with practice this delicacy will come to mind. it is also a fat-free sponge cake; For people who are aware of these details, it is very good for them to take this information into account.

🔪 Prep Time	20 minutes
🍲 Cook Time	40 minutes
⏲️ Total Time	1 hour
🍽️ Servings	12 servings
🔥 Calories	160 calories

Ingredients pionono

• 6 eggs
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 6 tablespoons of sugar
• 6 tablespoons of prepared flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 package of blancmange

Method

1. Beat the white of the eggs until stiff, preferably using a mixer.
2. While you are beating pour the sugar and baking soda. Having the white well beaten with the sugar, add the yolks one by one. Now add the teaspoon of honey and vanilla. Keep beating.
3. Remove your bowl from the mixer and add the flour. Move in a circular way.
4. Preheat the oven to 350° centigrade. Let it heat up to put the dough.
5. On a parchment paper, spread the butter, greasing it and flouring it.
6. Cover your flat and rectangular mold with parchment paper. Pour the dough and take it to the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
7. Remove the cake from the oven and place it on a butter paper, sprinkle a little powdered sugar and start spreading the white manjar on the cake.
8. Roll it up with all the parchment paper and leave it in the refrigerator for half an hour. Remove your Pionono and sprinkle it with powdered sugar and you have it ready.

Tips and tricks

1. Beat the white of the eggs until stiff, preferably using a mixer.
2. While you are beating pour the sugar and baking soda. Having the white well beaten with the sugar, add the yolks one by one. Now add the teaspoon of honey and vanilla. Keep beating.
3. Remove your bowl from the mixer and add the flour. Move in a circular way.
4. Preheat the oven to 350° centigrade. Let it heat up to put the dough.
5. On a parchment paper, spread the butter, greasing it and flouring it.
6. Cover your flat and rectangular mold with parchment paper. Pour the dough and take it to the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
7. Remove the cake from the oven and place it on a butter paper, sprinkle a little powdered sugar and start spreading the white manjar on the cake.
8. Roll it up with all the parchment paper and leave it in the refrigerator for half an hour. Remove your Pionono and sprinkle it with powdered sugar and you have it ready.

Additional information

The Pionono that we are going to prepare has different names in Spain they tell him “Gypsy Arm” , in other countries of Latin America they tell him rolled up , as well as in English “Swiss roll” .

Although its origin of a specific data is not known. The origin is attributed to the Muslims who over time would take him to Spain and there he would become famous.

Here in Peru it is called Pionono, according to many this name refers to the Pope Pius IX or Pius Nono who lived in the middle of the 19th century.