I did a quick 3 day solo trip to Lisbon, Portugal earlier in the year and entered with only one goal: eat a pastel de nata (aka “custard tart”). Well, needless to say, I very much accomplished that. I even went above and beyond and had not one, not two, but 14 custard tarts. That’s right. In the 3 days and 2 nights that I was there, I managed to eat 14 custard tarts. To paint a better picture for you, I am a ~90lb., tiny asian female who had to fill basically 48 hours (arrived in the afternoon and left in the early afternoon) in Portugal alone, and decided to visit every pastry shop I passed. Not including hours spent sleeping, I was pretty much eating half a custard tart every hour (putting my grad. school smarts to use with that math). I learned the very important lesson that I’m not adult enough to properly feed myself when I’m alone and in a foreign country.

But, of course, I’m always thinking about my followers when I travel. I patiently went through a multitude of pastry shops in Lisbon (and one in Sintra) so that y’all wouldn’t have to. Which is why this blog post is dedicated to lovers of all things baked and sweet (and totally not to justify having about 2 custard tarts per meal).

So, there you have it folks. An entire blog dedicated solely to showing you guys that it is possible to eat all the custard tarts in the world and not get tired of them. Granted, I was only there for 3 days, but even now as I look back at these pictures, I long for the sweet and flakey crust, encasing that smooth, vanilla and caramel-y egg custard.

Cheers!