Funny how the world is.
Malassadas were actually brought to Hawaii by Portuguese from Madeira island (my hometown) and Azores as well, I believe.
My nanny used to cook them all the time for me (especially around this time of the year - Carnaval). We would eat them dripping with sugarcane honey:
However, what you're showing in your photo,
@TB, looks a lot more like a Bola de Berlim, which is the Portuguese version of the
berliner.
It even appears to have the traditional egg yolk-based cream inside, from the Portuguese variant. (I've just noticed yours is coconut cream)
Interestingly, a quick search shows that the malasada from Hawaii is, indeed, more closely related to the Bola de Berlim than it is to the original malassada.
Anyway, I miss eating a malassada so much now, with a lot of sugarcane honey... It is probably close to 35 years since I ate one.