Tortosa is a really stunning city in the South of Catalonia, a must place to visit. These delicious pastries are stuffed with pumpkin jam – in other parts of Spain it’s called cabello de ángel which, in English, is ‘angel’s hair’! The name is likely to have come from the result of cooking the pumpkin in the sugar, which is the way to make it, and it looks like beautiful golden hair.
It can be difficult to find the Siam pumpkins, but don’t worry, you can easily buy them as well as tins of cabello de ángel online.