Baba-de-moça

Description

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.