Malveira Trouxas
Also known as: Malveira Tortas · Soft Pillows
Small sponge-cake pillows rolled around vanilla and almond cream.
- Origin
- Malveira · Mafra
- Region
- Malveira · Mafra
- Season
- Year-round
Trouxas da Malveira are soft sponge-like rectangles about 8.5 by 5.5 centimetres, 8 millimetres thick and roughly 80 grams. Each piece wraps a cream of milk, eggs, flour, vanilla and nuts, especially almonds.
The surface is golden and soft, sometimes dusted, and a cut piece reveals cake curled around a pale filling. They are sold individually or in boxes of four or six.
- wheat flour
- corn flour
- eggs
- sugar
- milk
- vanilla
- almonds and other nuts
Soft sweet sponge with milky vanilla cream and gentle almond texture.
Also called Tortas or Travesseiros Fofos; the revived recipe emphasises almond in the cream.
At bakeries in Malveira and around Mafra.
Coffee, tea or milk.
Local tradition attributes the recipe to two women from the Odivelas convent. Old boxes carried a popular rhyme encouraging travellers to take Trouxas da Malveira home. The original recipe has been revived after years of altered versions.
Sources: tradicional.dgadr.gov.pt
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