Fried walnut pastry · Anise in the filling
Casadielles
Photo: Amasuela - Luis Lafuente Agudín / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
La Foz de Morcín has held a casadielles contest every January since 2010, timed for its San Antón fiesta (17 January); it started as a provincial contest and now bills itself as the World Casadielles Contest.
Finger-length tubes of wheat dough stuffed with ground walnuts (or hazelnuts), sugar and anise, fried and dusted with sugar; confiterías across Asturias sell them singly or by the box all year.
Why it's made this way: A traditional Asturian sweet made above all for Carnival (Antroxu), and also at Christmas and Easter, and now a standard item in pastry shops across the Principality, especially in the central valleys.
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