List of Brazilian sweets and desserts
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Below is a list of sweets and desserts found in Brazilian cuisine. Brazilian cuisine, influenced by European, African and Amerindian traditions,[1] varies significantly by region, reflecting the country's diverse native and immigrant populations and its continental size. This has created a national cuisine that preserves regional differences.[2]
A–E
- Açaí na tigela – a Brazilian dish made of frozen and mashed açaí palm fruit, it is served as a smoothie in a bowl or glass.[3]
- Amanteigado – a buttery cookie or biscuit
- Baba de moça
- Bananada
- Bem-casado
- Beijinho – a common Brazilian birthday party candy[4]
- Beijo de mulata
- Bijajica – a cookie
- Biriba or biribinha
- Biroró
- Bolo de rolo – a cake prepared using guava, it is recognized as a national dish by Brazilian law.[5]
- Bolo Souza Leão – a typical Pernambuco cake
- Bom-bocado – a coconut torte that is commonly served during Brazil's Independence Day[6]
- Brigadeiro – a traditional Brazilian confectionery
- Broinha de coco – a coconut-based biscuit-like dessert
- Bruaca
- Cacuanga[7]
- Cajuzinho – a popular sweet made of peanuts, cashew nuts and sugar and is shaped like a tiny cashew
- Camafeu de nozes
- Canjica – a popular Festa Junina sweet dish prepared using canjica corn[8]
- Carolina – An éclair-like dessert
- Cartola – a typical Pernambuco dessert
- Cavaca
- Chuvisco
- Cocada – a traditional coconut candy or confectionery found in many parts of Latin America
- Creme de papaya – a frozen dessert
- Cupulate – a chocolate-like dessert made using cupuaçu instead of cacao
- Curau – a sweet custard-like dessert made from the pressed juice of unripe maize, cooked with milk and sugar
- Cuscuz de tapioca – tapioca couscous, also known as cuscuz branco (white couscous), is a dessert made with tapioca granulada (coarse tapioca starch) and shredded coconut, served with sweetened condensed milk
- Doces Cristalizados
- Doce de abóbora
- Doce de espécie – typical dessert of the Northeast Region of Brazil
- Espuma de sapo
F–J
- Fatia de braga
- Fios de ovos – a traditional Portuguese sweet food made of eggs (chiefly yolks), drawn into thin strands and boiled in sugar syrup. They are a traditional element in Portuguese and Brazilian cuisine, both in desserts and as side dishes
- Furrundu
K–O
- Mané-pança
- Mané pelado
- Manjar branco – a pure white Brazilian coconut pudding
- Marmelada de Santa Luzia
- Maria-mole – similar to a marshmallow, its base ingredients are sugar, gelatin and egg whites, and it is usually covered in grated coconut
- Nhá Benta – a chocolate-coated creamy marshmallow also known as teta de nega (Black woman's teat)
- Mugunzá – a porridge made with white de-germed whole maize kernels (canjica), cooked with milk, sugar and cinnamon until tender. Other ingredients are also sometimes used.
- Olho de sogra (Mother-in-law's eye) – a candy
P–T
- Paçoca – a candy made out of ground peanuts, sugar and salt
- Palha italiana – A Brazilian variant of the chocolate salami, consists of crushed biscuits (usually similar to Marie biscuits) mixed in brigadeiro
- Pão de mel - A little cake made of honey, filled with condensed milk cream and covered with a thin layer of chocolate
- Papo-de-anjo – a traditional Portuguese dessert made chiefly from whipped egg yolks, baked and then boiled in sugar syrup.[9]
- Pastel doce
- Pastel de Santa Clara
- Passion fruit mousse
- Pavê – a dessert similar to Tiramisu made using ladyfingers (known as "champagne biscuits" in Brazil) or a Marie biscuit equivalent, chocolate cream and condensed milk
- Pé de moleque – a candy made using peanuts, jaggery or molasses
- Pudim de leite moça [pt]
- Queijadinha – a candy that originated in Portugal, and is common in Brazil
- Quindim – a popular Brazilian baked custard dessert
- Rapadura – unrefined whole cane sugar
- Romeu e Julieta – Goiabada eaten with cheese
- Sweet rice – rice pudding
- Sagu – a southern Brazilian dessert, made with tapioca pearls, sugar and red wine, it is typical of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
- Torta alemã (lit. 'german pie')
