Canillitas de Leche

Guatemala.com's canillitas de leche are small Guatemalan sweets made from milk, sugar and cinnamon. The article connects these elongated milk candies with the country's traditional confectionery and the sweets of Antigua Guatemala.

The three ingredients cook slowly while the mixture is stirred until it becomes a uniform mass. A short rest follows before the candy is cut and shaped into individual pieces.

The pieces finish cooling before they are eaten. Their slender shape gives canillitas their familiar appearance, with cinnamon flavouring the concentrated milk-and-sugar mixture.