Desserts

Bolos de arroz are the tall, sugar-crusted rice muffins standing at attention in every Portuguese pastry case — humble next...

Ekmek kataifi is the Greek celebration dessert that refuses to choose: a crisp base of buttered kataifi (shredded phyllo) soaked...

Bolo de banana is the cake Portuguese households make when the fruit bowl gets ahead of them: soft, cinnamon-warm and...

Banana lumpia — better known in the Philippines as turon — is proof that great desserts do not need long...

Tarta de Santiago is Galicia’s 16th-century almond tart, stamped — literally — with the Cross of Saint James in powdered...

Alfajores are Argentina’s beloved sandwich cookies: two impossibly tender, crumbly rounds hugging a thick layer of dulce de leche, with...

Dulce de membrillo is one of the Iberian Peninsula’s oldest sweets: quinces slowly cooked with sugar until they transform into...

Pudim Abade de Priscos is the most audacious dessert in the Portuguese canon: a caramel-glazed pudding of fifteen egg yolks,...

Arroz doce is the dessert that measures a Portuguese cook: creamy rice pudding perfumed with lemon peel and cinnamon stick,...

Queijadas de leite are the queijada family’s gentlest member: no cheese at all despite the name, just a silky milk...