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SWEETS

SARANSURÁVEL

(Steamed coconut cake)

COQUEIRA

(Coconut tartlets)

BEBINGA DE LEITE

(Coconut and milk pudding)

PÃO DE LÓ

(Sponge cake)
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GENETES

(Shortbread cookies)

Soft cookies that just melt in your mouth.

 

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BAGI

(Glutinous Rice sweet)

An old coconut sweet.

 

Lusitano (Ca) Bulletin

ARROZ DOCE

(Sweet rice pudding)

Making this delicious dessert with fresh coconut was once rather tedious, but is now simple with canned coconut milk.

 

Cecília Jorge in Crónicas Macaenses by Rogério P.D. da Luz

XAROPE DE FOLHA DE FIGO

Fig leaf cordial)

This delicious drink was reputed to have curative properties.

 

IIM

FIOS DE OVOS

(Egg threads)

 

 

Popo le Chien, CC BY-SA 3.0

CREME CARAMEL

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BOLO MENINO

(Sponge Cake)

This was named after the Christ Child (menino) and was served at Christmas time but there is no reason why it should not be enjoyed throughout the year. 

 

Kimberly Vardeman CC BY 2.0

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

(Shortbread biscuits)

Feather-light gluten-free corn starch biscuits, piped into wriggly shapes and called bicho-bicho (“worms” in the Macanese patois). 

 

From former site macaneserecipes.com, owner unknown.

FARTES

Eaten at Christmas, these are meant to represent the pillows of the baby Jesus. 

 

Marcin Floryan, CC BY-3.0

COSCORÕES

(Sweet pastry sheets)

These sweet, crisp pastries are traditionally served at Christmas time and represent the sheets on the bed of the baby Jesus.

Adriao, CC BY-SA 4.0

SONHO

(Sweet or savoury deep-fried choux pastry)

 

 

From former site macaneserecipes.com, owner unknown.

BICHO-BICHO

 
 
 

 

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Biscuit tart

A dessert made from biscuits that looks and tastes like cake, but needs no cooking.

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TORTA DE LARANJA

Orange roll
Lusitano (Calif) Bulletin

SERRADURA

“Sawdust” dessert

A rich, creamy dessert whose biscuits crumbs resemble sawdust

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BATATADA

A moist cake made with sweet or ordinary potatoes.

 

 

A dessert made from biscuits that looks and tastes like cake, but needs no cooking.

 

 

TORTA DE CÔCO

Coconut roll


 

 

 

TORTA DE LARANJA

Orange roll