Making the best conchas: the iconic sweet Mexican bread

Concha: The iconic Mexican sweet bread

The concha, one of Mexico’s famous pan dulces, is a traditional Mexican sweet bread roll with a round shape and a shell-like, sugary crust. The inside is soft and fluffy, making it a delightful treat for breakfast or as a snack. They come in various flavors, with vanilla and chocolate being the most popular.

The unique shell pattern on top is achieved by scoring the sugar paste before baking, adding a delightful texture contrast.

Most popular variations

🍫 Chocolate concha: This concha is perfect for chocolate lovers.

🩷 Pink Concha: Topped with a sweet pink sugar crust, adding a playful and colorful touch.

🍓 Strawberry concha: Flavored with strawberry essence for a fruity and sweet taste.

❤️ Heart concha: Shaped like a heart, this concha is both adorable and delicious, often given as a gift.

☕ Coffee concha: Incorporates coffee flavor for those who enjoy a hint of coffee in their sweet goods.

🍵 Matcha concha: Blended with matcha powder, offering a unique and slightly earthy flavor.

🟡 Custard concha: Filled with creamy custard, adding a rich and smooth texture.

🍬 Dulce de leche concha: Filled with sweet and creamy dulce de leche, offering a caramel-like flavor.

Ingredients for every concha

Ingredients to create the concha basis
Add flavor and texture to your concha

Soft'r Melting

Soft’r Melting technology is an improver solution that allows you to create the perfect melting texture for medium and sweet bread applications

Mimetic

100% plant based, 100% buttery indulgence, 100% cost efficient and convenient. Plant based specialty fat providing a real butter sensation – for lamination and incorporation. No additives on final product label.

Sapore

Sapore constitutes a wide range of sourdoughs that offer a natural, traditional and differentiating taste and structure to finished baked products.

Sproutgrain

Ready-to-use sprouted and fermented whole grains and seeds

Softgrain

Ready-to-use sprouts, whole grains and seeds infused with sourdough

Topfil

Fruit fillings with a delicious taste of nature. Perfect to use in fresh and frozen patisserie and bakery applications before and after baking. Discover them now!

Vivafil

Highly performing fruit fillings with exceptional bake stability and/or to use in long shelf life applications. Discover them now!

Cremyvit

Cremyvit is a range of deliciously smooth and creamy custard cream mixes that take only moments to prepare.

Deli

Deli is a top quality range of rich cream filling preparations that make good baking taste great.

Cremfil

Recognised by many leading equipment manufacturers as the most reliable cream filling, Cremfil offers outstanding stability during pumping, baking and freezing.

Carat - Fat-based fillings

Carat offers a variaty of delicious fat based fillings that can be applied in different bakery & patisserie applications, before or after baking. Fat Based fillings: dark, milk or white, with or without nuts, with or without chocolate, …

Puraslim

Bread made with Puraslim has fewer calories and less (saturated) fats. Moreover, as no fat needs adding, Puraslim mixes are so convenient to use.

Our Concha Recipes

Classic Concha

Discover how our classic concha recipe optimizes texture for a perfect melt and longer freshness.

Creative Concha

Discover Puratos’ way to reinvent the classic concha with tasty ingredients like Sapore.

Sustainable Chocolate Concha

Move to a fully plant-based concha and reduce your environmental footprint. Our innovative solutions include our dairy butter alternative solution and a plant-based bakery mix that enables the replacement of 100% egg and significantly reduce the fat content

Healthier Concha

Cater to health-conscious consumers by reducing fats and adding fruits, grains, and seeds to your concha.

Need a hand with your concha?

At Puratos, we pride ourselves on having the expertise and solutions to support every type of production, from artisan bakeries to large-scale industrial operations.

A story of the concha

Conchas, a beloved Mexican sweet bread named after its seashell shape, have a rich history deeply rooted in Mexican culture. This iconic sweet treat dates to colonial Mexico, where bakers blended European baking techniques with native ingredients.

They are part of the pan dulce family (meaning: ‘sweet bread’), the name of a variety of Mexican pastries typically consumed at breakfast, in the afternoon, or at dinner.

What does concha taste like?

A concha has a delightful flavor that's a combination of a sweet, buttery, and slightly vanilla-infused bread with a crunchy, sugary topping. The bread itself is soft and fluffy, similar to a sweet roll or brioche, while the topping adds a satisfying contrast with its crisp texture and sweet taste. Depending on the variation, it can also carry additional flavors like chocolate, strawberry, or coffee.