Today we will examine one of the more simple, though unknowingly equally famous desserts that have now spread around the world, being the filhoses, or in the islands of Portugal and in the United States, more commonly known as malassadas. Similar to the Canadian “beaver tail” (no beavers are harmed in the making of them), filhoses, or malassadas, are one of the oldest form of donut, predating the more common round form with a hole and being separate form Portugal’s “bolas de
