 "Jesuitas" are made with two layers of puff pastry filled with ham and cheese and covered with fondant icing.Tortas fritas (fried cakes) are a simple pastry, typical from Argentina and Uruguay and which has many variants along South America.The recipe for the sopaipilla, from which it descends, is argued to be from what is now Germany but they were introduced to Spain by the Arabs at the times of the invasion.