Vouzela Horseshoe Folar

Folar de Vouzela is a horseshoe-shaped cake of sweet yeast dough, with a thin golden crust and fluffy interior. Small mounds of butter and granulated sugar are placed at the centre of the rolled dough; when the circle is folded without flattening, that filling sits between the two layers and caramelises in the oven.

Flour, eggs, sugar, butter and yeast are kneaded and left to rise for about two hours. The dough is rolled, filled, folded in half with the lower flap slightly larger, curved into a horseshoe, dusted with sugar and rested again before baking.