Baked malasadas

soft fluffy malasadas rolled in sugar and filled with creamy homemade custard.

Savor the heavenly taste of malasadas—sweet, light, and fluffy Portuguese doughnuts. This easy, fail-proof recipe mirrors the deliciousness of Leonard's Bakery in Hawaii! With each bite, savor the irresistible sweetness and airy texture, transporting you to the sun-kissed shores of Oahu.

Another recipe for Hawaiian malasadas (donuts). These are filled with a luscious pastry cream!

Learn how to make these Plain or Haupia-Filled Malasadas. Malasadas are basically Hawaii’s version of a yeast doughnut. They don’t have a hole and more often than not, they are served plain with no filling. Instead of being glazed, they are dusted with sugar. It’s like eating a puffy, fried, sugary cloud.

One taste of these pillowy, sugar-dusted Hawaiian favorites and you may never go back to glazed raised. Balancing a soft and slightly chewy interior with a crunchy exterior was the key to success for these hole-less doughnuts, which originated in Portugal and found their way to Portuguese American enclaves all over the United States. Since malasada dough is traditionally very wet and difficult to work with, we used a ratio of wet and dry ingredients that yielded a more workable mixture…

The infamous Portugese donut is an inconic food of Hawai'i, these Malasadas from Aloha Kitchen cookbook give you a taste of the islands in your own kitchen!

This light and fluffy malasada recipe makes a small batch of 6 authentic Hawaiian donuts inspired by Leonard's Bakery in Honolulu! The malasadas are rolled in sugar and stuffed with passion fruit pastry cream.

Easy Hawaiian style malasadas are deep fried and rolled in sugar creating a light and fluffy donut. Perfect for Malasada day here in Hawai’i or anytime of year.

This Malasadas Recipe is a Portuguese dessert that's become a Hawaiian favorite. The fried dough rolled in sugar makes them irresistible!