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Guaguas de pan translates to “bread babies”. Bread babies are a traditional sweet bread from Ecuador and other Latin-American countries eaten during “Día de los Fieles Difuntos” that translates to “All Souls Day”, November 2nd. It is often filled with strawberry, pineapple or guava marmalade. Although now, in more modern times, they are also filled with Nutella, chocolate ganache or vanilla custard. The bread is habitually decorated with raisins, sugar icing glaze, and the bread itself.

Origin
In the pre-Colombian era, the indigenous people of the Andean region between Ecuador and Peru, would unbury their dead people and take them out on a walk. For them it was a celebration that reminded them who their ancestors were and that they were all connected. It was a custom for the people to make a drink with fruits from the region and black corn and bread figurines made out of corn that represented the dead. The festivities occurred around the September equinox and the December solstice. With the colonization of the Spanish people the indigenous festivities were replaced by All Souls Day and taking mommies out for a walk was no longer allowed. Afterwards instead of using corn in the bread the people would use wheat however it is still shaped like people to represent the deceased.