Peladillas cakes or Kings' cakes

The peladillas cakes are the kings' cakes, which according to tradition are left on the night of the 5th, so that the kings can have dinner.

The peladillas cakes are made with ensaimada or coca bamba paste, and are shaped like a half orange. They are usually topped with four or five coloured sugared almonds and it is typical to eat them for breakfast accompanied by cooked chocolate.

These cakes, at least because of their half orange shape, as is still done in Mallorca with the Christmas cakes and aniseed cakes, were the antecedent of the cakes that were consumed in the main festivals of each of the island's towns, but without sugared almonds, and which had the name of the festival, such as the cakes of the San Juan festivals or the cocas de la Virgen de Gracia.

In the past, in addition to the cocas de los reyes, they also made cuartos, which were eaten accompanied by a cup of hot chocolate.

Another sweet that we have on that day, although more typical of the little ones in the house, is sweet coal, which is made with the same formula and preparation as the sugar cubes of San Juan, but with black food colouring, although we cannot say that it is a preparation typical of our gastronomy, since we will find it in the rest of the State, as well as the custom of giving or throwing sweets in the cavalcades of the kings of the East.