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Brazilian cornmeal cake (bolo de fubá)
Bolo de fubá — classic Brazilian cornmeal cake with milk, eggs, and fine fubá. Soft afternoon cake for cafezinho.
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Homemade guava paste (goiabada)
Homemade guava paste for Romeu e Julieta and bolo de rolo. A market block is the usual buy.
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Beijinho (coconut brigadeiros)
The coconut sister of brigadeiros. Condensed milk, coconut, and butter, rolled and set on the festa tray.
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Passion fruit mousse (mousse de maracujá)
Mousse de maracujá is a cold passion-fruit cream: condensed milk, table cream, and tart pulp, blended and chilled.
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Cocada (Brazilian coconut candy)
Cocada is coconut cooked with sugar until it holds a mound. The white home-tray sweet after a churrasco.
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Quindim (coconut custard)
Quindim is a small baked coconut custard of egg yolks, sugar, and grated coconut.
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Brazilian chocolate fudge balls (brigadeiros)
Brigadeiros are Brazilian chocolate fudge balls: condensed milk, cocoa, and butter, rolled in sprinkles.
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Romeu e Julieta (guava paste and cheese)
Romeu e Julieta is sliced fresh cheese with sliced goiabada (guava paste).
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Bolo de rolo (Pernambuco roll cake)
Bolo de rolo is a Pernambuco cake: many paper-thin layers of sponge rolled around melted goiabada.
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Cartola (plantain, cheese, and cinnamon)
Cartola is a Pernambuco dessert: fried banana, melted queijo coalho or queijo de manteiga, and a thick dust of sugar…
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Sagu de vinho (grape tapioca pearls)
Sagu de vinho is a Serra Gaúcha dessert: small cassava pearls cooked in red wine with sugar, clove, and cinnamon.
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Pudim de leite (Brazilian condensed-milk flan)
Pudim de leite condensado is the dessert that follows a Sunday churrasco: a cold caramel custard made from condensed milk,…
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Desserts after a Brazilian churrasco
A Brazilian churrasco is not followed by cobbler or banana pudding. The sweets that actually show up are a short…
