Portuguese sweet bread
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This Portuguese sweet bread recipe -- or Easter bread -- has been passed down through several generations; serve warm with a pat of butter!
This Portuguese Sweet Bread is just like the one from the bakeries. Serve as is or buttered and grilled. It's amazing!
Ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 4 Egg
Baking & Spices
- • 2 tbsp Active dry yeast
- • 5 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 tsp Salt
- • 3/4 cup Sugar
Bread & Baked Goods
- • 8 inch Cake pans, round
- • 1 Pastry brush
Dairy
- • 1/2 cup Butter
- • 1 cup Milk
Liquids
- • 1/4 cup Water
Other
- • Food thermometer

In Good Flavor saved to IGF Sweet Recipes
10 · 50 minutes · Easy Portuguese sweet bread recipe using all-purpose flour, eggs, sugar, yeast, butter, milk. Also called pão doce or massa sovada, Portuguese sweet bread is best served warm with butter. The perfect Easter bread!
Ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 3 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
- • 2 1/2 tsp Active dry yeast
- • 5 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 cup Granulated sugar
- • 1 tsp Kosher salt
Dairy
- • 1/4 cup Butter, unsalted
- • 1 cup Whole milk
In the Portuguese culture, food is the highlight of popular celebrations, with some dishes only making an appearance on special occasions. Massa sovada, or Portuguese Sweet Bread, is one such celebratory snack. Learn how to make this light and airy bread with its signature subtle sweetness.

liveLUSO saved to Portuguese Culture
2 · Growing up my mom would make Sweetbread aka Massa for every special celebration, and especially for Easter and Christmas. Truly these holidays would not be complete unless there was sweetbread to enjoy. I can recall especially, Easter where it felt like my mom would make enough loaves to feed our whole family, our extended family as well as all our friends!! I also remember the wonderful aroma of the baked bread… it would fill not only the house, but also that the whole Portuguese…
Ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 9 Egg
Baking & Spices
- • 3 packages Active yeast, dry
- • 10 cups All-purpose flour
- • 2 cups Granulated sugar
- • 3/4 tsp Salt
- • 1/2 cup Shortening
Dairy
- • 1/2 cup Butter
- • 2 cups Whole milk
Liquids
- • 9/16 cup Water

Trish Chaves Sultzbaugh saved to Portuguese
This Portuguese Easter Bread recipe makes 2 beautiful loaves; one for you and one for the neighbors. This also makes the most phenomenal french toast.
Marie Van Batavia saved to Cakes
This Portuguese Sweet Bread is just like the one from the bakeries. Serve as is or buttered and grilled. It's amazing!
Ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 4 Egg
Baking & Spices
- • 2 tbsp Active dry yeast
- • 5 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 tsp Salt
- • 3/4 cup Sugar
Bread & Baked Goods
- • 8 inch Cake pans, round
- • 1 Pastry brush
Dairy
- • 1/2 cup Butter
- • 1 cup Milk
Liquids
- • 1/4 cup Water
Other
- • Food thermometer

Christy Silva saved to Portuguese
11 · 60 minutes · Pão de Deus (Portuguese bread) #bread #Portugueserecipes #breakfast #coconut
Ingredients
Produce
- • 1 tbsp Lemon, zest
Refrigerated
- • 4 Egg
Condiments
- • 1/4 cup Butter or margarine
Baking & Spices
- • 3 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 Icing sugar
- • 1/2 tsp Salt
- • 15/16 cup Sugar
- • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- • 1 tbsp Yeast, dry
Nuts & Seeds
- • 2 cups Coconut
Dairy
- • 1/2 cup Milk
Beer, Wine & Liquor
- • 1 tbsp Rum
Liquids
- • 1/3 cup Water

Paree LaVonne saved to Just desserts
An authentic recipe for massa sovada, or Portuguese sweet bread. Plus, it includes instructions on how to adapt your loaf into an Easter folar. #liveluso #portuguesefood #baking

liveLUSO saved to Portuguese Food & Recipes
Grandmother’s Portuguese Sweet Bread Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 5 hours Yield: 3 dozen My Grandmother’s Portuguese Sweet Bread My grandmother’s Portuguese Sweet B…

Honiecrisp Unney saved to Sweet bread