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Facturas

Name: Facturas
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Argentina
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 150ml Milk; 200g Butter (for laminating); 60g Sugar; 1 Egg; 1 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Honey (for glazing)

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

The umbrella name for Argentina's buttery sweet pastries, a must at breakfast and afternoon snack time.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Facturas are the many shapes of sweet pastry essential to Argentine breakfasts and merienda (afternoon snack). They grew out of the bread traditions brought by Italian immigrants and evolved into something uniquely Argentine. The crescent-shaped medialuna (a mini croissant) is the classic, alongside custard-filled vigilantes and spiral caracolitos. At cafés they're sold by the piece and tucked into paper bags.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Buenos Aires café, people start the day with a few medialunas alongside mate or coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Milk 150ml
Butter (for laminating) 200g
Sugar 60g
Egg 1
Salt 1 tsp
Honey (for glazing) 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead bread flour, yeast, milk, sugar, egg, and salt into a dough and chill for 1 hour.
Wrap 200g of butter in the dough and fold it in thirds three times to build layers, chilling between folds.
Roll the dough thin, cut into triangles, and roll each up from the wide end into a crescent.
Let rise at room temperature for about 1 hour.
Bake at 200°C for 15 minutes and brush with honey for a glossy finish.

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