Taste Delicious: Barquillos

Barquillos or commonly known for biscuit roll, crispy biscuit roll, crisp biscuit roll, cookie roll, love letter, rolled wafer or egg roll is a type of biscuit snack commonly found in many parts of Asia. It is crunchy and can be easily broken into pieces because it is super thin.

Awesome to pair it with ice cream, pipe cream inside or just on its own. They are made by pouring thin batter onto a wafer iron (barquillera). Once the wafer is cooked to light brown it is immediately rolled while still hot. It becomes a crisp rolled cookie when it cools.

Here, I will show you how it's made professionally.

On the video, you can see the barquillera, the flat iron used to cooked the barquillos, now for us home cooks, we can't have all the gadgets we need to make specific stuff, otherwise our kitchen will be fully packed before we know it but I have found a solution for this.

We don't need a fancy wafer iron machine nor buy the barquillera as long as we have a sandwich press or a griddle, a skillet and a round baking pan. I know, I've mentioned a lot hahaha if you still don't have anything I've mentioned and still you want to try making this, just look around your kitchen and see what you've got that can imitate how it's cooked.

On this occasion,

I used a sandwich press

and the back of my wooden spoon

to roll the wafers.

It looks so easy to make on the video, but believe me, it will take a while to master the rolling part as there's a fine line between rolling it and starting to cool down to crisp. On the video, you see the barquillera, the advantage of that is, it doesn't have any sides so you can freely rolled the wafer with your rolling stick without lifting the wafer from the heat. As soon as the wafer were lifted from the heat even a centimeter away, it will start to crisp because it is so thin.

Don't get disappointed if you break your first barquillos or if you didn't get to rolled it quick and it ended up like a flat wafer as you can see above. Actually it's also good to make it flat like that as it is not messy to eat, but of course the rolled ones are fun to eat. As you can hear its crunchiness as you bite them. For me it brings back my childhood memories.

Great for snacks,
for your kid's lunchbox,
to bring to family and
friends visit.
It will also make an
awesome gift
made with love.

Just giving you all the idea about Barquillos. These are super thin rolled wafer, very delicate, crunchy and it breaks easy. If you are not careful biting them, you will have lots of crumbs on your clothes, hahaha just a friendly reminder especially to those who have OCD about cleanliness and crumbs on the floor. But please no offense meant I too have this madness of the crumbs all over the house. But with a kid and a kid at heart, spreading crumbs will be my last concern when I can see my daughter enjoying what I've made.