A Spanish fried pastry dessert that is often dusted with sugar and sometimes filled with cream or fruit.
From Spanish buñuelo, diminutive of buño (a puffed-up fritter), possibly from Latin bulla meaning 'bubble' or 'swollen object.' The term entered English through culinary contact with Spanish-speaking regions.
Buñuelos show how food words travel: the Spanish word itself might come from the shape of bubbles, and the dessert became famous in different forms across Mexico, the Philippines, and the American Southwest, each adding their own twist.
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