Cornmeal Cake (Bolo de Fubá)
A quick and easy Brazilian cornmeal cake recipe.
This recipe is from my cousin Kathy from Food For Every Season. Her grandma’s recipe from Brazil which used coffee cups for measurements so Kat had to translate this recipe into real measurements, and I’m glad she did. Everything goes in the blender, now that’s my kind of baking!
I love this cake. Every time I’m with her I ask her to make it for me. I even asked her to make this for my birthday. It’s similar in texture to cornbread only sweeter and moister. You can have it for breakfast, or eat it for dessert.
In fact, as I am typing this right now, I wish I had a piece right now. Try it and let me know what you think. And yes, there is parmesan cheese in here, I was surprised seeing that myself but it works! I wouldn’t change a thing!
Cornmeal Cake (Bolo de Fubá)
Ingredients:
- 3 cups skim milk
- 4 large eggs
- 1-1/2 cup yellow corn meal (coarse)
- 1-1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1-1/2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2-1/2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
- baking spray
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Spray a 13″ x 9″ x 2″ baking pan with baking spray.
- Add milk, eggs, corn meal, sugar, flour, and butter to blender.
- Mix all ingredients until blended well (about 1 minute).
- Then add baking powder and grated Parmesan cheese and blend on lowest setting or pulse for a few seconds.
- Pour mixture into baking pan and bake at 350° F for 50 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 30 minutes before serving (I like it warm).
- Cut into 21 pieces.
Nutrition Information
Yield: 21 servings, Serving Size: 1 piece
- Amount Per Serving:
- Freestyle Points: 7
- Points +: 4
- Calories: 162.7 calories
- Total Fat: 2.7g
- Saturated Fat: g
- Cholesterol: mg
- Sodium: mg
- Carbohydrates: 31g
- Fiber: 0.8g
- Sugar: g
- Protein: 4.3g
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Could almond milk be used or is it pointless? My husband has a slight dairy intolerance, but he definitely won’t die if switching to almond milk on this won’t work.
Oh my! I came to the site looking for a cornbread recipe and I found BOLO DE FUBÁ! Thank you! I’m from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil! And this put a huge smile on my face.
Great! Hope you enjoy it!
Hi. Is the 1 1/2 tablespoons of flour correct? It seemed like a small amount and I wanted to make sure before. Looks delicious. Thanks
Yes, it’s a small amount
Was hoping to find a cornbread recipe on the site… could the 1-1/2c of sugar be removed to adapt this for regular cornbread? Or would everything else need to be adjusted because there would then be way to much liquid.
I haven’t tried it without the sugar so I am not sure?
I tried this tonight and was surprised at how thin the “batter” was! It cooked up ok, though I had a thin eggy layer on top. Is that typical? It tasted good, so no complaints, just curious as to whether I somehow managed to screw up the world’s simplest recipe!