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Baba-de-moça
(Maiden's Kiss)
Baba-de-moça is a traditional dessert, a custard cream with eggs and coconut that is a common filling in numerous birthday cakes and pastries. It is made with coconut milk, sugar syrup, and egg yolks, developing a flavor that goes extremely well with sponge cakes.
The name of the dessert can be literally translated to a maiden's kiss. Baba-de-moça was also the favorite sweet amongst the nobles in the Second Empire, which lasted from 1840 to 1889.
WHERE TO EAT The best Baba-de-moça in the world (according to food experts)
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Recommended by Maria Emilia T. Lopes and 3 other food critics.
"Dessert is something like baba de moça or dessert with green coconut with small pieces of dark chocolate! You can't forget this feeling of wanting more and more and more."
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Recommended by Portal Gosto and 3 other food critics.
"Coconut foam with baba-de-moça is so light and it closes the meal nicely."
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Recommended by Roberta Malta and 1 other food critic.
"The star of the menu is among the desserts: Pernambucan baba de moça, made with coconut instead of egg yolks in the sauce."
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Recommended by Lílian Brasileiro
"My favorite is Baba de Moça, this one really is my order every time, and it is the only one I consider perfectly delicious."
