Below is a list of sweets and desserts found in Brazilian cuisine. Brazilian cuisine has European, African and Amerindian influences.[1] 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.[2]
Desserts and sweets
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 [pt]
- Bananada [pt]
- Bem-casado [pt]
- 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 [pt] – a typical Pernambuco cake
- Bom-bocado [pt] – 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 [pt]
- Cacuanga[7]
- Cajuzinho – a popular sweet made of peanuts, cashew nuts and sugar and is shaped like a tiny cashew
- Camafeu de nozes [pt]
- Canjica – a popular Festa Junina sweet dish prepared using canjica corn[8]
- Carolina [pt] – An éclair-like dessert
- Cartola [pt] – a typical Pernambuco dessert
- Cavaca [pt]
- Chuvisco [pt]
- 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 [pt] – 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
- Doces Cristalizados
- Doce de abóbora [pt]
- Doce de espécie [pt] – 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
K–O
- Mané-pança
- Manjar blanco – a term used in Spanish-speaking area of the world in reference to a variety of milk-based delicacies.[9]
- 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
- Nhá Benta or "teta de nega", a chocolate-coated creamy marshmallow
- 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
P–T
Close-up of a chocolate pavê
- Paçoca – a candy made out of ground peanuts, sugar and salt
- Palha italiana [pt] – 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.[10]
- Pastel
- 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
- 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')
U–Z
- Umbuzada [pt] – A drink made from cooked umbu fruit, milk and sugar
