With lots of sweets and typical ingredients, take a look at ten typical cakes of the June party
One of the most awaited moments by most Brazilians has arrived! The festival season in June is one of the liveliest and full of variety of good food. From savory recipes to sweets of all kinds, São João is a national phenomenon.
Also, it might. With chilly nights, hot drinks, seriously delicious food, flags, lively music, square dancing and bonfires, is there anything better?
So we took advantage of all the inspiration of the time to take a look at the typical sweets of the June festival, which featured breakfast with black coffee and samples of the snack with hot tea, for example.
We asked a few chefs to separate their favorite cake recipes that most resembled Festa Junina. We have divine options worth checking out: tapioca pie, apple pie, clove and cinnamon pie, souza lion pie, guava honey cornmeal pie, sweet potato pie, marble pie, mané pelado cake, “prego” cake, banana with breadcrumbs and iaiá finger.
Grab your partner, put on a plaid shirt and choose the tastiest cake to win this dispute. Check out the contestants below:
Tapioca cake
Tapioca is one of the ingredients that brings us back to the Festa Junina, bonfires, quentão and all the other typical themes of that time. Very sweet and creamy, the tapioca cake, by chef Joyce Galvão, is perfect for the breakfast of champions, even more so when accompanied by a delicious hot coffee.
Apple pie, cloves and cinnamon
The guava paste cornmeal cake with honey is a real treat. This cake is perfect for dessert, or for an afternoon coffee with black coffee or very hot tea. Água Doce Sabores do Brasil restaurant shows you how to make desserts step by step.
sweet potatoes cake
Chef Heloísa Bacellar, from the blog ‘Na Cozinha da Helô’, created a recipe for a vanilla-chocolate marbled cake using a blender, which made everything easier. Besides being quick to prepare, it is very tasty.
naked cake
Bolo mané pelado is a cassava cake recipe that was meant to go all wrong, but ended up being a critical and commercial success, even with its less fluffy way. The bolo mané pelado, by Dona Doceira, is a very easy recipe to make at home, ideal to be consumed with a freshly brewed coffee.
Nothing is cake’
The “nothing cake” is nothing like that. Chef Heloísa Bacellar says that this cake is always very tasty and uses few elements, nothing but the simplest ingredients that are most easily found inside any refrigerator. The secret of this blender cake is the filling you choose and it can be the one you like best, ranging from something derived from chocolate to a fruit filling, which also goes well together.
Sweet Peanut Pie
In Caruaru, Pernambuco, one of the traditions of the great June fiestas is the bolo pé de moleque. This dessert is made with cassava flour, egg, guava paste, coconut and cashew nuts. Chef Maria Eugênia da Silva, known as Dona Maria do Bolo, teaches you step by step:
little finger of iaia
There are never too many versions of cassava cake, right? Do you already know the little finger cake of iaiá? It’s a delicious version of cassava cake that’s very simple and easy to make. Because it uses egg whites in the recipe, it has a very fluffy and creamy texture. This recipe is almost a family heritage handed down for generations. Chef Chico Ferreira’s mother, from Le Jazz, Regina Ferreira teaches the recipe step by step.
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