Ovar Sponge Cake PGI

Pão de Ló de Ovar PGI is made chiefly with yolks and whole eggs, sugar and flour. It bakes in a mould lined with almaço paper and emerges like a cornbread-shaped cake of light, fluffy yellow batter beneath an extremely thin, slightly moist golden crust.

The inside is deliberately wet and creamy: this is the pito that distinguishes Ovar from dry sponge cakes. The baker watches the baking continuously to control how much pito remains, cools the cake in its mould and only then trims the paper.