A queijada is a small tart — a thin, slightly crisp pastry shell filled with a mixture of fresh cheese, eggs, sugar, and cinnamon, baked until the filling sets into something dense and faintly grainy, sweet and faintly savory at once, with the clean dairy flavor of the cheese running through everything. It is palm-sized. […]

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A pastel de nata is a small custard tart — a flaky, laminated pastry shell filled with a custard of egg yolks, sugar, cream, and a little flour, baked at extremely high heat until the custard blisters and chars in irregular patches across the surface. That charring is not a flaw. It is the thing. […]

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