Desserts

Folar da Páscoa is the sweet bread that means Easter in Portugal: soft, fragrant with cinnamon and orange, and traditionally...

Bolos lêvedos are soft, slightly sweet Portuguese muffins from the Azores, cooked on a griddle until golden — think of...

Bolas de Berlim are Portugal’s answer to the doughnut and, in my entirely biased opinion, they win. Inspired by the...

Farófias taste like my grandmother’s kitchen. She made them every Christmas Eve: clouds of poached meringue floating on a silky...

Leite creme is Portugal’s answer to crème brûlée — or perhaps the other way around, depending on which food historian...

Baba de camelo — “camel drool” — wins the prize for Portugal’s least appetizing name attached to one of its...

One of my fondest memories of growing up Portuguese is my mother making bolo de bolacha — a “cookie cake”...

Natas do céu means “cream from heaven,” and for once the name is not an exaggeration. This is one of...

Encharcada belongs to Portugal’s great family of doces conventuais — convent sweets. The nuns of Évora used egg whites to...

Honey cake is one of the oldest ideas in baking — honey was sweetening cakes long before sugar was affordable...