At Christmas, there was bolo-rei, at Easter, Olhão is getting ready to sweeten the mouths of residents and visitors with a giant Folar. Similar to what happened in December, the cake is once again in the hands of the young pastry maker Filipe Martins, who will join the Câmara de Olhão and ACRAL and offer, on March 23, four types of pastries next to Largo da Restauração and the Mother Church of Olhão.
Those who visit that place on the weekend before Easter can choose between the traditional Olhão folar, rolled and with lots of sugar mixed in, honey and olive oil, a specialty of the Kubidoce bakery by Filipe Martins, the Serra folar and the chocolate cake.
To ensure that these delicacies can be tasted by everyone who wants to, which the local authority estimates to be thousands of people, we have to think big. «There will be around 300 kilos of folar, in total, with 70 to 80 meters in length and made in shapes measuring 70 by 13 centimeters, reveals the pastry chef, winner of the Óbidos Chocolate Festival in 2010.
«Many kilos of flour and yellow sugar, eggs, yeast, arbutus and fig brandy, Port wine, cinnamon, fennel or dark chocolate are some of the ingredients that will go into the making of this typical Easter sweet. In total, there will be around 24 hours of cooking the dough, which first has to rest and rise”, illustrated the Chamber of Olhão.
«It will be an even more time-consuming and laborious process than the bolo-rei and the cooking method is also slower and with other types of molds, but we are going to make it», considered Filipe Martins.
The young businessman from Olhano opened his first bakery a year ago and in April he expects to open the third space for the Kubidoce brand, a factory for baking bread and cakes and selling to the public, in one of the main arteries of the city, Avenida da República.
In addition to pastry, Filipe Martins has a special passion for chocolate and will launch some new products during the Easter season. Among them, chocolate turróns, unique in the Algarve region, which are available in black, white, milk, almonds, hazelnuts and spices, as well as chocolates of various types.
Filipe Martins considered that the execution of the giant bellows «is another challenge». «As it went well with Bolo-rei, I know that people liked it a lot, I decided to bet once again on this initiative to promote my space and my city of Olhão», said the young entrepreneur.
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