What Banderilla means
Banderilla is a Mexican bread name of Spanish origin meaning "little flag". It is built from Spanish bandera (flag) and -illa (diminutive). It is pronounced bahn-deh-REE-yah, and it is most associated with the whole country.
A long strip of puff pastry. The same word names the barbed dart planted in the bull during a corrida, itself named for the paper flags wrapped around the shaft.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Mexican pan dulce is named by shape, and the names are pure visual poetry: concha (shell), oreja (ear), cuernito (little horn), ojo de buey (ox eye), corbata (necktie), puerquito (little pig), bigote (moustache).
