Snack · 30 min · spanish

Natillas

This is the kind of Spanish snack you’ll make on repeat — whole milk and egg yolks, 30 minutes, big payoff. Each serving lands at 280 calories with 7g of protein, so it eats like a much heavier meal. Simple enough for a Tuesday, good enough to serve to guests — that is the whole idea.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 3 cups Whole milk
• 5 Egg yolks
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1 tbsp Cornstarch
• 1 Cinnamon stick
• 6 Maria cookies

Steps

1. Warm the milk with the cinnamon stick until steaming, then let it infuse off the heat for 10 minutes.
2. Whisk the yolks, sugar, and cornstarch until smooth, then temper with the warm milk.
3. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the custard thickens enough to coat a spoon — pull it before it boils.
4. Pour into individual dishes and top each with a Maria cookie.
5. Dust with ground cinnamon and chill at least 2 hours.
6. Serve cold; the cookie softens into the custard and becomes part of the dessert.

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