Our History

A doçaria is a little family factory raised by a young pastry chef who had the dream of opening his own business. In 1964, the young pastry chef saw his dream come true starting by creating his own recipes for honey cakes, cookies, candies and pastries, and producing them in his owns home.
The life of a pastry chef was not easy, every day around 3 am, he, his wife, son and daughter were already working to ensure that the cakes arrive fresh and in time for the bakeries to open and pastries to whom it provided their products.
His son always followed closely his footsteps and had already started to do things perfectly, with the exception of making candies, because it was a job that required strength and a great tolerance to heat, inasmuch as the sugar syrup was made around of 100ºC. At the age of 16, due to a work accident that his father suffered and which resulted in a third degree burn that made it impossible for him to continue his work for 6 months, the pastry chef's son had to learn to endure the heat and handle the sugar syrup because the family breadwinner couldn't stop for that long.

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Time was passing by and business was running smoothly, until on February 20, 2010, a house / factory was completely destroyed due to heavy rains and all materials, products, machinery were lost. It was then that the pastry chef decided to end his 65 years of work, eventually retiring.
His son, doesn't wanted that the work of an intire life that his father created died, so he decided to rebuild and expand the house and make it unique and exclusively a larger factory. In 2017, the factory is named “A Doçaria” and focuses on making 13 varieties of candies (with Fennel and Eucalyptus being the typical candies of Madeira Island), of the most varied honey cakes shapes and weights (from the heart-shaped cakes to the Madeira Island-shaped cakes) and the 5 varieties of bread (honey, chestnut, butter, coconut and sand).
Now a days, A Doçaria favors the confection of all products in a handmade way so that the tradition of sweets and honey cakes is never lost or forgotten, even giving the opportunity to customers who pass by to see and even try the process of making the products.