Sweet Egg Yolk Custard

Ovos Moles de Aveiro

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
My Rio de Janeiro: A Cookbook

By Leticia Moreinos Schwartz

Published 2013

  • About

Alda Maria Doces Portugueses is one of those rare shops that takes you back in time. You feel like you are in a past century with furniture, china and sweets that lived through more than two hundred years of tradition. The proud owner, Alda (read more about her opposite), shared this recipe for ovos moles de aveiro with me. As old as the convents of Portugal, ovos moles de aveiro is one of the most iconic sweets of Portuguese cuisine and one of the m