User:AccidentalLichens/Carolina (pastry)

The carolina is a typical pastry of Bilbao. It consists of a small puff-pastry crust filled with custard and topped with a meringue cone. Typically the cone has a coating of sweet egg yoke glaze and dark chocolate.

Ingredientes
The principle ingredients are: meringue, puff pastry tartlets, egg yolk, and chocolate.

History
La Marquess of Parabere included a recipe for the carolina in her first book Confitería y Repostería, in 1930. In the book, it says that the carolina was invented by a pastry chef from Bilbao. His daughter, Carolina, loved meringue, so he put the meringue in the tartlet to prevent her from getting dirty. She liked it so much he named it after her.

The pastry is well-recognized as a Bilbao speciality, so it served as the mascot for the Bilbao Carnival in 2009.