Bakery Window · Portuguese Doughnut
Malasada
Photo: Arnold Gatilao from Oakland, CA, USA / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Leonard's Bakery in Honolulu, opened by Portuguese immigrants in 1952, still fries malasadas fresh to order, with lines out the door every Fat Tuesday.
Egg-rich dough is deep-fried until golden and puffy, then rolled in sugar while still hot, with no hole and no filling in the traditional version. Bakery walk-up windows sell them warm by the bag.
Why it's made this way: Portuguese immigrants who came to work Hawaii's sugar plantations in the 1800s brought the recipe, and it became a uniquely Hawaiian-Portuguese hybrid treat.
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