Mollitas cake: crunchy recipe 

The mollitas cake (also known as the bread crumb tart) is a traditional pastry product from the province of Alicante. It can be eaten for celebrating a feast day (such as the San Juan Fireworks) or for breakfast, as a snack or even as an aperitif at any time of year. It is made with water, oil and flour, and it is also common to include some white wine when making it, as it gives this dish aroma and enriches it.  

What makes the mollitas cake recipe so unique? Its appearance, perhaps. And the fact that it is a cake with a fine crunchy base, which has a thicker and softer layer of bread crumb-shaped dough on top.  It is essential that the bread crumbs remain spongy and loose on top of the base so that it is truly recognisable and you are in the presence of an official mollitas cake.  

To make an exquisite crunchy mollitas cake recipe you can prepare the dough at home or use a flaky pastry dough.  This time, we will choose the latter option, as this is the most popular version and makes it quick and easy to prepare this succulent dish. Despite what it might seem, the mollitas cake made with bread is extremely easy to make, as we will show you below:  

Ingredients for the mollitas cake

What do you need to make the mollitas cake recipe? The following ingredients: 

• 1 rectangular sheet of flaky pastry
• 500 g wheat flour
• 175 ml extra virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 soup spoon of white wine

Making the mollitas cake

To make the recipe for the crunchy mollitas taste excellent, follow the steps below.  

1. Firstly, spread the flaky pastry dough onto an oven tray which has been previously lined with vegetable or oven paper. Then turn on the oven to 180 degrees with top and bottom heat on, so that it begins to heat up.  

2. While the oven heats up, start preparing the mollitas. To do this, place the flour, oil, wine and salt in a bowl and mix everything together until the ingredients are well mixed. Start doing this with a fork and finish with your hands (which is preferable). Then start pulling the dough apart to resemble small crumbs of bread (the mollitas). 

3. After this, put the mollitas (crumbs of bread) on top of the flaky pastry. The idea is that they are loose and spread over it evenly.  

4. Lastly, bake for between 15 and 20 minutes, or until you see the surface beginning to go golden. Then, remove it from the oven, let it cool for 30 minutes and it is ready to eat.  

Mollitas cake with chocolate

Can you make mollitas cake with chocolate? Congratulations to the biggest fans of this ingredient, yes you can. The flaky pastry mollitas cake with chocolate is a perfectly possible alternative, and is more common. To give this recipe an additional touch, other sweet things can be added apart from chocolate. You could also include any other type of sweet thing (to your taste) to provide some contrasting flavours.  

To add chocolate, all you need to do is melt it beforehand so that it is in a liquid form. Then spread it over the flaky pastry before you add the crumbs of bread on top. This is how to make the mollitas cake with chocolate, another delicious option for enjoying this dish from Alicante.