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Bolo Souza Leão

Also known as: Souza Leão Cake

A dense cassava cake with coconut milk, egg yolks and butter syrup.

Bolo Souza Leão — illustrative food image

About Bolo Souza Leão

Mattu Macedo's bolo Souza Leao uses fresh puba, the fermented cassava dough associated with this Pernambuco cake. Her rendition extracts coconut milk from freshly grated coconut and combines it with egg yolks and a butter-enriched sugar syrup.

The coconut and butter give the cake its rich flavour, while the puba supplies the distinctive cassava character. A pinch of salt completes the mixture of sweet syrup, yolks and coconut milk.

The cake is baked in a ring-shaped mould within a water bath. It cools completely before unmoulding and serving, producing a dense cake with the pudding-like character associated with the dish.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Milk, Egg.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Bolo Souza Leão

Mattu Macedo's fresh-puba bolo Souza Leao.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Freshly grated coconut: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual147/156 source freshly grated form; broader coconut candidate. Full in-recipe coconut milk extraction166/169 supplied, not doublecounted as another prepared milk ingredient.
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual148/150 coconut extraction and syrup; explicit banhoMaria172 water-bath medium consolidated, no quantities.
  • Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual151/160 syrup plus selected butter-greased pan172, not margarine/caramelised mould branch.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Egg yolks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual153/162.
  • Fresh puba cassava dough: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual154/163 original fresh puba option selected over grated fresh cassava; broader fermented-cassava-dough candidate, precise prior product preparation unprovided.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Brazil
  • BrazilCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Equipe Mattu Macedo - Receita de Bolo Souza Leao