What is a sopaipilla?

Answer 1

Sopaipillas are a delicious sweet bread that is fried. The dough is made of flour, sugar, milk and baking powder--plus a few other ingredients. You mix the dough, and let it rest a couple of hours. Then, you roll the dough out, cut it into diamond shapes and fry it. The dough puffs up and browns. You can put honey inside the sopaipilla and eat it.

I suspect that these are similar to the Indian (native American) fry bread, which is used to wrap beans and other fillings. Also, in Utah, they call them scones.