🍰 Bolo de bolacha (Portuguese biscuit cake)

Name: Bolo de bolacha (Portuguese biscuit cake)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: 400 g plain round biscuits (Maria-type); 250 g unsalted butter, softened; 150 g icing sugar; 300 ml strong coffee, cooled; 1 tbsp sugar for the coffee (optional)

Origin: Portugal

456kcal

per serving · 120 g

380kcal

per 100 g

6 gProtein5 g / 100 g

26 gFat22 g / 100 g

48 gCarbs40 g / 100 g

Bolo de bolacha is a no-bake Portuguese cake made by dipping plain round biscuits in strong coffee and layering them with a sweet butter cream. After a night in the fridge the biscuits soften into a cake-like texture under the cream, with a clear coffee flavour. It is finished with crushed biscuit crumbs on top and served in neat chilled slices.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: butter

Contains glutenbecause of: biscuit

Contains dairybecause of: butter

Not keto40 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

biscuitbuttercoffeesugar

Recipe

8 servings40 min

Ingredients

400 g plain round biscuits (Maria-type)
250 g unsalted butter, softened
150 g icing sugar
300 ml strong coffee, cooled
1 tbsp sugar for the coffee (optional)

Method

Beat the butter with the icing sugar for 5–7 minutes until pale and fluffy, adding 2 tbsp of the coffee at the end.
Sweeten the rest of the coffee if you like. Dip each biscuit quickly in the coffee — a second or two, so it does not fall apart.
Lay a layer of dipped biscuits on a plate, spread thinly with butter cream and repeat, building 6–8 layers.
Cover the top and sides with the remaining cream and sprinkle with a few crushed biscuits.
Chill for at least 4 hours, ideally overnight, before slicing.

How to make it lighter

It is rich — butter is about 100 kcal per tablespoon — so cut thin slices and log each one.
Spread the cream in thin layers and skip the cream on the sides to save a good share of the fat.
Leave the coffee unsweetened; the cream already brings plenty of sugar.

History

Bolo de bolacha is a homemade dessert found across Portugal and in Portuguese communities abroad, popular at birthdays and family gatherings because it needs no oven.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →