Doce de Mocotó is a candy made with cow's feet collagen. It has both the appearance and texture similar to a marshmallow but it's much softer and sweet (also cheap too). Here you can either buy store bought or make the candy yourself at home, actually, you can find some recipes online but they are all in Portuguese and I never tried making it at home to add the recipe to my website (but I plan to make it someday).

Paçoca is a sweet made with crushed peanuts and sugar. It has a dry granulated appearance and can be easily crushed into a bunch of crumbs. It's a highly popular sweet here, and it can either be bought at a store or home made (I never tried to make one myself but I tasted a homemade version and didn't feel any differences between the industrial one). The store bought can be either corkscrew shaped (pictured) or box shaped, the pacoça most famous brand is Paçoquita.

Suspiro (aka meringue in English) is a dessert made with only sugar and egg whites (even though the ingredients are simple the process of making them is highly difficult). They have a crunchy texture and are really sweet (I used to add a bit of lemon's zest in my recipes to balance the taste). Here, beside making them at home, you can also buy industrial ones that you can buy in two different shapes: the classic one made with pastry bags and the square shaped colourful ones (pictured).

Nhá Benta (original name flødebolle) is a confectionary of Danish origin. Nhá benta is made of marshmallow covered in a chocolate coating with a waffle underneath. It has the mushy marshmallow texture with the crunch waffle bits and the chocolate can be either cracky or softer like the marshmallow. Here we have different type of brands that sells nhá benta from the common to the more expensive ones that can have different flavours.

Maria mole ice cream (original name sorvete de maria mole, aka as sorvete seco, lit. dry ice cream) is a sweet that consists of a colourful maria mole, covered in granulated sugar, inside an ice cream cone. It's texture is the same as a normal maria mole but the charming point is eating it and pretending that you're eating an ice cream (or being tricked by your parents that this is an ice cream when it's too cold to eat a real one). Sometimes it accompanies a balloon (pictured).

Coconut candy (original name bala de coco) is a candy made of coconut milk, sugar and water. It's a hard chewable candy that melts in your mouth and it doesn't taste at coconut at all (at least I think that it doesn't because I don't like the fruit that much). This candy used to be a common thing in children's birthday parties where it was wrapped in colourful paper and used to decorate the table.

Chocolate coins (original name moedas de chocolate) is a chocolate made in the shape of and wrapped with coloured aluminium foil to look like a R$1,00 coin. The sweet is cheap and made of cheap chocolate so it doesn't taste that good, the charm here is also nostalgia and pretending to be real money.

Chocolate soccer ball (original name bola de futebol de chocolate) is a chocolate made in the shape of and wrapped in aluminium foil to look like small soccer balls. The sweet are awful cheap and the chocolate is also cheap and leaves a grease after taste on the mouth (it's worse than the chocolate coins) but it's shape is also the charm of it.

Chocolate umbrella (original name guarda chuva de chocolate) is a chocolate made in the shape of a closed umbrella (it even has a plastic umbrella handle pictured here). Between the chocolate coins and chocolate soccer ball it has the worst greasy taste and is the cheapest between the three, but it's also the one with the most charming and nostalgic novelty shape.

Geléia de frutas (lit. fruit jelly and aka as geléia bicolor which is lit. two coloured jelly), this sweet is a gummy-like candy covered in granulated sugar, the texture is similar to a gummy candy and it can has different flavours (pictured here is orange and strawberry flavour). I confess that I never tried this one before making this page because I always thought that it was pineapple flavour and I felt really stupid when I bought recently it was written in big letters "orange and strawberry flavour".

Bananada is a candy made of bananas and usually coated in granulated sugar. It's texture and shape varies between manufacturers but the two most common shapes I've seen are: 1- small cubes coated in granulated sugar, they have a chewable texture and are cheaper, 2- medium rectangular shaped candy that has a more sticky wet texture, also more expensive. In my taste the smaller ones are usually best.

Nucita is actually the name of a branded product of a same name company, and it is a creamy mix of chocolate and hazelnut in a very small plastic container with a very tiny spoon. Think of it as the cheaper version of Nutella, that doesn't taste that good because it leaves a weird aftertaste but it isn't that bad either because of how cheap it is.

 Sonho aka Sonho de padaria (lit. dream, original name Berliner) is a jam donut that originated in Germany, but it is way better than the original version. The sonho dough is made using flour, baked in an oven, and fried, then it's filled with either doce de leite (milk jam), creme de pasteleiro (a type of pastry cream of Portuguese origin), or chocolate (though these are more rare). And it has tons of filing (as pictured), then it's covered in either flour or sugar or both.

The texture of the buns is like Portuguese sweet bread, and its filling is always sweet and sticky. It's one of my favourites pastries and probably one of the best in the country! It's also on my wishlist to learn how to make them myself. 

Bomba de chocolate (lit. chocolate bomb, original name Éclair) is a pastry originated in France (but in the same way as the sonho, the Brazilian's bomba is way better). The dough is made with flour, then fried, and it's filled with brigadeiro or doce de leite (milk jam) and covered in melted chocolate, yummy! The texture of the dough is crunchy almost like a biscuit and actually is really sweet and generous in it's portions (the reason is called bomba is because it explodes in your mouth when you eat it).

The only defect with it is that the doce de leite version doesn't taste as good as the brigadeiro one, and it's kinda difficult to find a place that sells bombas that are actually good. So I also wish to learn how to make these myself one day.

Swiss roll is a type of sponge cake that's rolled to look like a log and it has a variety of fillings and icing available. Some of the most popular flavors are brigadeiro, strawberry, red velvet and Prestígio (chocolate and coconut), doce de leite (milk jam), and goiabada (a type of jam made with guava). Different from a regular cake, a swiss roll has less filling and icing, and the dough has a lighter texture.

Brevidade is a type of cake made either of corn starch or cassava. starch, sugar, eggs, margarine, and yeast. It can be made as a full sized cake in a baking tray or in muffin trays (like pictured). Brevidade's texture is grainy and crunchy; it's similar to biscuits made of corn starch and are really, really dry. This cake has a special place in my heart because my grandma always used to make them, though it isn't my favorite.

Brigadeiro is an essential snack at birthday parties; a kid's a favorite and a national symbol (I think). It's a sweet made of condensed milk and chocolate powder heat in a pan at a low temperature, then rolled up in small balls and covered in chocolate. sprinkles. Some recipes add butter or creme de leite (milk cream) to it, but it's to make the sweet more shiny or more soft. respectively, and aren't exactly essential.

Brigadeiro is one of my favorite sweets ever, and I'd like to refute a famous chef that I saw on TV that said that "Brigadeiro is bad because is too sweet" or something, I think that there isn't such a thing as a dessert that is too sweet. Desserts are supposed to be sweet, and if you don't like sugar, don't eat them. Instead of badmouthing them! But anyway, the popularity of Brigadeiro in my country proves that he is wrong.

Besides the format pictured, a brigadeiro call also has different textures, we have a brigadeiro de copinho that has a more creamy texture, and it's served in small plastic cups and eaten with a spoon, and brigadeiro filling to cakes and pies (actually If you are buying something that says it's chocolate-flavored, that's a great chance that's actually brigadeiro-flavored). Also they're surprisingly difficult to make at home, and I suffered a bit to Learn how to make them myself (I'll add my recipe when I create my own recipes section).

Bicho de pé is a cute pink name with a not so cute name (so I won't translate it to English. This sweet is actually the strawberry version of a brigadeiro, it's made using condensed milk. with something strawberry-flavored like powder juice or Nesquik then sprinkled with granulated sugar or pink chocolate sprinkles. (Nesquik is a brand of flavoring mix to add to milk.).

I really like this, but I haven't managed to find the perfect strawberry powder to add to the recipe (and Nesquik is too expensive here), so I'm still searching for how to make the perfect recipe for it.

Bolinho de chuva (lit. rain bun) is a really simple recipe that I think exists in other countries with a different name. The ingredients are flour, milk, sugar, baking powder, and eggs, then you mix everything together in a bowl and deep fry small spoonfuls with it, that's it!

Bolinho de chuva is a common sweet made by grandmas for snacks. (just like cake and sweets), so it has a nostalgic factor for me. It is also really easy to make; the only flaw is that it has to be deep-fried, and I don't like deep-frying things, so I always ask someone else to fry them for me.

Maria-mole (lit. soft Maria) is a sweet made of sugar. gelatine and egg whites. It has a stick texture and mushy texture. (hence it's name), it's usually covered in grated coconut, and it's either naturally white or dyed with pink food coloring.

A maria-mole is like a marshmallow, but it's way stickier and softer; it's really soft and loose, and it can bend if you hold it. by the tip. I don't like it much since I think it's too much. sticky and I don't like grated coconut at all. It's really hard. to find one without it).

Spiral lollipops are a candy that is just made of purely sugar and food coloring and I think that only people who would enjoy eating raw sugar like it (at least where I live there are purely sugar lol), so that's the reason kids love it.

These types of lollipops are called Pirulito do Chaves here because they were featured in the famous Mexican TV show El Chavo del Ocho. As a kid I'd want them just because of the TV show and now I still like them but I think that they're too sweet.