Chancaca

Chancaca
Central Chilean sopaipillas with and without chancaca sauce
Type	Dessert topping
Place of origin	Bolivia, Chile, and Peru
Main ingredients	Sugar, honey; usually zest of orange
Cookbook: Chancaca Media: Chancaca

Chancaca is a typical Peruvian, Bolivian, and Chilean sweet sauce made of raw unrefined sugar from sugar cane. It is often flavored with orange peel and is consumed on sopaipillas or picarones.

Chancaca is also a synonym for piloncillo, the unrefined sugar used to make chancaca syrup.^[1]

In Colombia, chancacas are a traditional coconut candy.

References

Dessert sauces

List of dessert sauces

Banana sauce Blueberry sauce Brandy butter Caramel sauce Chancaca Chocolate syrup Coulis Crème anglaise Custard Fruit curd Hard sauce Magic Shell Rumtopf Slatko Wet walnuts Whipped topping

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