Furnas Taro Queijadas

Queijadas de Inhame das Furnas are small, low, round cakes served in paper cups and generously dusted with icing sugar. Unlike queijadas with a clearly defined pastry shell, these are moist and soft throughout, built around puréed taro grown in the wet meadows of Furnas.

The commercial formula is proprietary to its creator. Published descriptions identify taro, almonds, cinnamon and lemon zest; the tuber gives body and a restrained earthy sweetness, while almond and citrus bring the cake into Portugal's broader queijada tradition.