Learn how to make Andean bread babies during a cooking class in the village of Tipón. Discover the history of these bread treats, which have been a tradition in Cusco since the Inca Empire. Play a traditional game and take your bread baby home.
Be picked up from your hotel in Cusco and set off on the 40-minute drive to the village of Tipón. Once you get there, your Andean bread baby cooking class can get started. Learn all about the history of these bread treats, which have been one of Cusco's traditions since the period of the Inca Empire.
These bread babies are usually eaten at the beginning of November, on All Saints' Day, and their shape is related to Catholicism. Learn all about this history and lots of other fun facts during your cooking class.
After hearing about the origins of the ancient tradition of making bread in the shape of a baby, be able to make one of these traditional treats yourself. To begin, soften the dough by kneading it against a wooden table and shaping it so it looks like a baby.
Decorate it with sprinkles and sesame seeds before putting it into the wood-fired oven. During the 15-minute wait for the bread babies to bake, play a traditional Cusquenian game. This would be guinea pig tombola, or “tómbola de cuy” in the local Spanish.
To play this game, several boxes will be placed in a circle with a guinea pig in the middle. The winner is the owner of the box that the guinea pig decides to enter. Following a fun game, take your Andean bread babies out of the oven.
Be able to take your sweet treat home to enjoy later. Return to your hotel in Cusco and be dropped off after 3 hours of fun.
