Bolo de rolo

Bolo de rolo (transl: rollcake) is a typical Brazilian dessert, from Pernambuco state.

The cakebatter is made with flour, eggs, butter and sugar. This mass is wrapped with a layer of melted guava, giving the appearance of a swiss roll. However, layers of pasta and guava are much thinner and taste completely different.

Its origin lies in the adaptation of Portuguese cake colchão de noiva (bride's mattress), a kind of sponge cake rolled with a filling of nuts. Upon arriving in Brazil, the Portuguese began to change the filling by guava fruit plentiful in northeastern Brazil, where dosed with too much sugar made in the factories of the region. Even today it is common to sprinkle the bolo de rolo with sugar in its outer shell, snapping up the presentation of the dessert.

Ordinary Law № 379/2007: bolo de rolo was recognized as intangible heritage of Pernambuco.[1]

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