Daily Archives: 20 March 2013

Recipe: Cheese Bread (aka Pão de Queijo)

Another recipe my friend and I worked on during the Bake-a-Thon was Cheese Bread… or more precisely: Brazilian Cheese Bread (aka Pão de Queijo). So how is this any different from a popover? Well in general:
Popover is a light, hollow roll made from an egg batter typically baked in muffin tins
Bread is prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and often additional ingredients, such as butter or salt to improve the taste.

After sifting through plenty of recipes I settled on one that I found via AllRecipes.com.
cheesebread
Since there was no tapioca flour on hand traditional flour was used instead… what happened in the end was that our version of the about (though tasted fantastic) didn’t look like the picture. Hmm… How did ours look? Well from my friend’s Facebook Wall
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