docinhos

posted on: Thursday, September 9, 2010


If you've been to a Brazilian birthday party or wedding (maybe even funeral) you've probably had a brigadeiro which is a small chocolate fudge ball rolled traditionally covered with chocolate jimmies.

Unless you're my cousin, in which case you roll your brigadeiros on gold powder and serve them alongside other fabulous bite sized sweets that fall into the category of what we call docinhos.


That above is my sister, Ca. 
We had a really good time at my cousin's wedding.
My goodness!


Below are mini chocolate cups with strawberry jam inside.
I know!


And these little white pretty things 
were miniature coconut flans.


and the green grapes covered in some form of sweetened condensed goodness was heaven.
All of these treats have sweetened condensed milk as either the first or second ingredient.
It's a Brazilian thing.


I can make a mean brigadeiro and many other types of docinhos
but they never look this fancy!

12 comments:

  1. Wow, these are beautiful! I'm in awe of the golden ball. My wedding didn't have treats that lovely!

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  2. coisa fina neh
    os brigadeiros e olho de sogra nem foram convidados pra esta festinha kkkkkk

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  3. Thank you thank you thank you for finding my blog because I LOVE yours. I am your newest follower. I am very into eating and cooking, so this blog will be a great adventure for me.

    xo
    M

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  4. Marcie, I'm so glad. I hope you enjoy your stay.

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  5. Oh my goodness you actually tasted these things?! What I wouldn't give! Your blog is lovely, thank you so much for visiting mine, its quite the work in progress right now but it will pick up soon. Definitely going to follow yours!

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  6. Oh my goodness you actually tasted these things?! What I wouldn't give! Your blog is lovely, thank you so much for visiting mine, its quite the work in progress right now but it will pick up soon. Definitely going to follow yours!

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  7. Oh wow! how delightful! this all looks positively delicious!
    xo tash

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  8. WOW, that is heaven! I've never seen such beautiful sweet things. We have the cake and that is it. I would be so happy to be around one of those parties...

    (You van probably guess I have a sweet tooth!)

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  9. I never had brigadeiro until we came to Brazil and when we hosted Emma's first birthday party I could sense a hint of disappointment in the air because there were no docinhos... People politely described the party as... very American.

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  10. Da serio qdo vc chegar aqui, vamos comer coxinha, brigadeiro, pao de queijo, quarana e muito mais viu !!! Que bom que vcs estao se divertindo. Saudades.
    Beijos

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  11. That's a very elegant dessert table.

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