page_title: List of Brazilian sweets and desserts
section_title: Desserts and sweets
hierarchical_section_title: List of Brazilian sweets and desserts / Desserts and sweets
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context_page_description: Below is a list of sweets and desserts found in Brazilian cuisine. Brazilian cuisine has European, African and Amerindian influences. It varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's mix of native and immigrant populations, and its continental size as well. This has created a national cuisine marked by the preservation of regional differences.
context_section_description: 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.
  Amanteigado – a cookie or biscuit
  Baba-de-moça
  Banana sweet
  Bem casado
  Beijinho – a common Brazilian birthday party candy
  Bijajica – a cookie
  Biriba
  Biroró
  Bolo de rolo – a cake prepared using guava, it is recognized as a national dish by Brazilian law.
  Bolo sousa leão – a cake
  Bombocado – a coconut torte that is commonly served during Brazil's Independence Day
  Brigadeiro –  a traditional Brazilian confectionery
  Broinha de coco
  Bruaca
  Cacuanga
  Cajuzinho – a popular sweet made of peanuts, cashew nuts and sugar and is shaped like a tiny cashew
  Camafeu
  Canjica – a popular Festa Junina sweet dish prepared using canjica corn
  Carolina
  Cartola
  Cavaca
  Chuvisco
  Cocada – a traditional coconut candy or confectionery found in many parts of Latin America
  Cocada branca
  Cocada morena
  Cocada preta
  Creme de papaya – a frozen dessert
  Cupulate
  Curau – a sweet custard-like dessert made from the pressed juice of unripe maize, cooked with milk and sugar
  Doces Cristalizados
  Doce de espécie
  Dutch pie
  Espuma de sapo
  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
  Mané-pança
  Manioc cake
  Manjar blanco – a term used in Spanish-speaking area of the world in reference to a variety of milk-based delicacies.
  Manjar branco – a pure white Brazilian coconut pudding
  Maria-mole – similar to a marshmallow, its base ingredients are sugar, gelatin and egg whites, and it is usually covered in grated coconut
  Ninho
  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‘ in Portuguese) is a Brazilian candy
  Paçoca – a candy made out of ground peanuts, sugar and salt
  Papo-de-anjo – a traditional Portuguese dessert made chiefly from whipped egg yolks, baked and then boiled in sugar syrup.
  Pastel de Santa Clara
  Pavê
  Pé-de-moleque – a candy made using peanuts, jaggery or molasses
  Pudim de leite moça
  Queijadinha – a candy that originated in Portugal, and is common in Brazil
  Quindim – a popular Brazilian baked custard dessert
  Rapadura – unrefined whole cane sugar
  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.
  Tortéi
  Umbuzada
caption: Olho-de-sogra
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