Desserts

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...

Marble cake is one of those cakes every Portuguese family seems to have a version of, and mine is no...