Brazil Nut Doughnuts

A family recipe that you’ll love!

40 min.

Super Simple!

Serving 50 Doughnuts

Ingredients

  • 250g (8.80 oz) butter

  • 250g (8.80 oz) sugar

  • 250g (8.80 oz) wheat flour without baking powder

  • 3 eggs

  • Thin ships of Brazil Nuts.

Instructions

  • Beat sugar and butter; then add 3 (three) egg yolks setting aside the whites.
  • Add the wheat flour, beat the egg whites stiff and blend to the other ingredients with a wooden spoon.
  • After blending well, put the dough into an icing bag and place small amounts into doughnut baking molds.
  • Molds shall be greased and sprinkled with wheat flour.
  • Place the brazil nut chips on top of them.
  • Note 1: Dough amount shall just be half of mold, otherwise it may overflow.
  • Bake at 120-130oC (248-266oF) for 40 minutes. Remove from the molds immediately after baked.
  • Note 2: Store into tightly-closed cans to avoid softening.

From the oven to the table! Run, it disapears!

Brazil Nut Rolled Cookies

A family recipe that you’ll love!

30min.

Super Simple!

Serving 2.2 lb of Cookies

Ingredients

  • 300 g (10.58 oz) grated Brazil nuts

  • 200 g (7 oz) wheat without baking powder

  • 200 g (7 oz) corn starch

  • 200 g (7 oz) butter

  • 100 g (3.5 oz) coarse sugar. 

Instructions

  • Put all the ingredients into a bowl, kneading until dough can be rolled.

  • Roll small amount of dough in your hands, placing them on a baking sheet, no greasing required.

  • Bake at 120°C – 130°C (248- 266°F) for 30 minutes, let cool down and sprinkle the coarse sugar.

Note: store into tightly-closed cans to avoid softening.

Delicious for your afternoon tea!

Brazil Nut Pie

A family recipe that you’ll love!

40min.

Simple!

Serving 12 Slices

Ingredients

  • 300 g (10.58 oz) Brazil nuts crushed in a kitchen processor
  • 3 narrowed cups of sugar
  • 4 tablespoons of bread crumbs
  • 12 eggs

Baba de Moça:

  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 cup of water
  • Drops of vanilla
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 1 small bottle of Coconut milk.

Instructions

  • Beat egg whites stiff. Add yolks without the membrane, one by one (as for sponge cake), then add sugar little by little.
  • Stop beating and whisk the bread crumbs and the crushed Brazil nuts.
  • Bake in two greased baking sheets or equal molds, and sprinkle bread crumbs on them.
  • Preheat oven at 200°C (392 °F) and bake.
  • When the toothstick test comes out dry, get the cakes out of the mold and fill them with “baba-de-moça”. 

In the meanwhile, prepare the Baba de Moça:

  • Put the sugar, the water and the vanilla on a saucepan and cook until thread stage.
  • Settle aside to cool down.
  • Then add the egg yolks (lightly beaten with the butter) and the coconut milk.
  • Cook again until thickening without boiling.
  • Put aside and add the remaining half of the cake, spread some baba-de-moça and decorate with whipped cream, and toasted and crushed Brazil nuts on top and side.

Superb dessert to eat with loads of whipped cream!