Well it's sweet time again. And this is what we just had for dessert here at home. Cocada. It's sooooooooooooo brazilian, everyone eats it here. It's made from fresh shredded coconut and a lot of sugar then other things are added to flavour it.
It's bloody beautiful, sort of like an exotic coconut ice.
You can see here what we had today. The two white ones are the basic one made with just sugar, and the other white one is made with condensed milk. The orangey looking one is passionfruit - and today was the first time I had tasted this and OH MYYYYYYY - fantastic - the acid of the passionafruit cuts the sweetness and richness of the cocada - it was sort of like a beach party in my mouth!!
Now the best of all I've left till last. The dark brown one there. It's made with the skin still on the coconut and it's burnt....mmmmmmm that wonderful burnt flavour of not just burnt coconut but burnt sugar...just perfect with my coffee...sigh...does life get any better than this?????
I never really got into cocada when I was here last time, but clearly I bought them at the wrong place. This one came from a local food fair and was so moist and so sweet, with that wonderful coconut taste and texture, a perfect example of Brazil's dedication to all things sweet and decadent.
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