Ponte da Barca Capuchinhos

Capuchinhos de Ponte da Barca are small puff-pastry bundles made from a square whose four corners are folded over one another by hand. The fold leaves a succession of flaps and seams on top, distinguishing the sweet from a fully sealed pillow. Its shell is pale, dry and brittle; inside is a compact, moist ochre-gold filling of eggs, regional honey and chestnut.

This combination of pastry technique and local produce was presented as an innovation sweet, not as an old convent recipe. The photograph published during its Seven Wonders of Portuguese Sweets candidature confirms both the angular form and the dense cut filling.