Sweet potato pastries Food and drink · Ondara, La Marina Alta, Alicante Little pastries of oil and spirit dough filled with roasted sweet potato with sugar and cinnamon, closed in a half-moon shape and dusted with icing sugar. They are prepared at Christmas and for the patron saint festivities in the bakeries of the towns. Photo: Santiago Romani (CC BY-SA 3.0) What to see and do in Ondara