BIZCOCHOS

BIZCOCHOS

The town of Cayambe is known for bizcochos (a not very sweet cookie with a particular shape.) Nothing in the factory is mechanized. Some of the bakery workers are up to their elbows mixing dough in a big trough, and others are shaping and cutting the bizcochos one at a time. Even so, this little factory produces 12,000 of them per day.

The bizcochos were pretty good by themselves, but wonderful with little tubs of dulce de leche to dip them in.

We stopped at a little place that sold bizcochos so Emily and Steve and family could have a taste!

Ready to go in the oven.

They cook them in a huge brick oven with the charcoal there on the left.  They were also cooking a chicken for lunch.

A pile of wood in the parking lot that they use for cooking.  I should have taken a picture of us all eating the bizcochos.  We bought some caramel sauce( dulce de leche)to dip them in and they were mighty tasty!!