Hello everyone, I’m so sorry for taking so long for posting a new recipe.

Time has been passing by really quickly and it was only today that I realized how long it’s been since I posted a new recipe to my food blog.

Well, I return with something worth the wait.

Another sweet recipe!

This is a recipe that you’ve probably never came across.

Cassava isn’t very common these days, I didn’t even know that that was the name in English for this root/vegetable. “Mandioca” is the name in Portuguese and this recipe is Brazilian, a popular cake in Brazilian parties and in the traditional “Festa Junina”.

It’s a very decadent cake, almost like those English sticky puddings.

A sweet and slightly chewy treat, that anyone would love.

Oh and it’s different, that’s a plus to me.

INGREDIENTS:

3 ½ cups sugar

¾ cup water

700g of peeled, shredded cassava

1 ½ cups butter/margarine

1 ¼ cups shredded fresh coconut

¾ cup coconut milk

8 egg yolks

Pinch of salt

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat your oven to 390ºF/200ºC

Mix the sugar and water in a pan and place over medium heat until it forms a thick syrup, don’t mix! When its done, add the butter/margarine and let it cool down for a while. Pass the egg yolks through a sieve (to get that thin casing out) and mix the cassava, coconut milk, shredded fresh coconut and the pinch of salt.

When your syrup reaches room temperature, mix it with the egg yolk mixture. To bake, smear some butter all over the inside of your cake mold and completely cover with some sugar.

Pour in the cake batter in the mold and place it inside of a half filled baking tray with water. Bake it like so for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Update: I recently learned that Cassava also goes by Manioc.