The secrets of the Berlin Ball

No one can properly write about Berlin balls on the beach without feeling their fingers sink into the fluffy dough, coated in a gentle frying. It's impossible to understand the frenzy surrounding this sweet treat—the third best-selling pastry here, after pastel de nata and croissants—unless we finish savoring it, licking our fingertips one by one, slowly, to prolong the sensation of the sugar melting on our taste buds.

A sweet Berlin ball on the beach has the charm of perfectly matching the salt that clings to our skin every time we leave the sea. Have you ever noticed how those little grains of sugar that insist on remaining on our fingers and around our mouths at the end of this nutritional sin have the same consistency and size as the grains of sand that remain embedded in our feet while we enjoy the wonders of a summer day?

**Tradition in the North** The Berlin d'Anémona balls, in Matosinhos, are part of a family business with over 50 years of history. The ones from the North are sold between the beaches of Salgueiros and Miramar, in Gaia.

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