Brazilians are crazy about cakes – or as they are called in Portuguese “bolos.” Much as the Portuguese have managed to create thousands of variation on the pastry, the Brazilians have created thousands of versions of cakes. You will know my now that we love street food and sweets, so we were tickled pink to see a mobile cake stand on our street. Sure, cupcake trucks abound in the US, but never before have we seen a mobile cake stand. At the little stand you can get entire miniature Bundt cakes (about 6″ diameter) in vanilla or chocolate for about R$ 2 (1 US Dollar). There is also a large collection of cookies for sale for snacking on the go. Check out the miniature chocolate cake we got, worth at least 5 times its price.
Chocolate Bolo – afternoon snack of champions
That’s funny. I am Brazilian and I have been in the US for the past 3 years. I never think of Brazil as having elaborate sweets, we love our brigadeiro and beijinho… I was wondering what you are calling cookies too, because I feel like what Americans usually call “cookies” is not something common in Brazil at all.
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Yes what Americans call cookies are not too common here, though I have seen them around. There is a bakery called “Poft Cookies” that specializes in the American-Style cookie. But this place I refer to had a ton of packaged “biscoitos”: Biscoitos Globo, A variety of Piraquê cookies (Recheados
Rosquinhas and Wafers), biscoitos de polvilho, biscoitos de maizena, casadinhos, and many more. I think Americans would definitely call the Piraquês, biscoitos de maizena and casadinhos cookies, but not the biscoitos Globo (especially since they also have a savory variety).