White Pilgrimage Cake
Also known as: White Pilgrimage Cake · Minho White Fair Cake
A light pilgrim-fair cake hand-marked with white lemon glaze.
- Origin
- Braga · Minho
- Region
- Braga · Minho
- Season
- Pilgrimages · Holy Week · year-round
Doce Branco de Romaria is a small, flattened round cake made with eggs, yolks, sugar, flour and lemon. After baking, its top receives a fluid glaze of egg white, sugar and lemon juice. Before it dries, fingertips draw circles or stripes through the glaze, exposing bands of golden cake.
The result combines a light sponge crumb with a thin, brittle white topping.
- eggs
- egg yolks
- sugar
- wheat flour
- lemon zest
- egg white
- lemon juice
Sweet and light, with egg and fresh lemon beneath a crisp glaze.
A yellow pilgrim-fair version also exists; on the white cake, the glaze pattern varies with the baker's hand.
At pastry shops in Braga and Barcelos and at Minho fairs and pilgrimages.
Coffee, lemon tea or white Vinho Verde.
This is a fair and pilgrimage sweet found across northern Portugal, with a notable presence in Braga and Barcelos confectionery. The official Visit Braga guide includes Doce Branco among the city's traditional specialities, beside cavacas, fidalguinhos, talassas and viúvas.
Sources: visitbraga.travel · workinbraga.com · casa-e-cozinha.pt · receitas.globo.com
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