250px|thumb|Assortment of alfeñiques for Día de Muertos.
250px|thumb|Assortment of alfeñiques for Día de Muertos.
Alfeñique, or Alfenim in Brazil and Portugal, is a type of confection or sweet originating in Spain molded into a long or twisted shape made of cane sugar together with other ingredients. This sweet has been used in Hispanic America in folkloric events since colonial times.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).