Name: Palha Italiana de Maracujá
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 15 pedaços

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Passion Fruit Palha Italiana (Chocolate/Passion Fruit Salami)

The traditional Palha Italiana in Brazil is made with chocolate brigadeiro, cornstarch cookies (biscoito maizena - found in Brazil) coated in caster sugar.

Italian only in the name, this dessert was created in the south part of Brazil, in the same region that Brigadeiro was created. When the Brigadeiro was created, many recipes were influenced by the Portuguese and Italian culture. In Italy, a similar desert can be found as Chocolate Salami.

Let's add to this recipe a tropical taste replacing the chocolate with passion fruit.

Bitter and sweet at the same time, you'll love try this recipe easy to make.

Ingredients

1 can/box of sweetened condensed milk
3,3oz (100ml) of the pulp of passion fruit (or concentrated juice).
1 tablespoon of butter
4.5oz (130g) of digestive biscuits (this was the closest biscuits that I found outside Brazil for cornstarch cookies)
3,5oz (100g) of caster sugar

Steps

Step 1
Smash the digestive biscuits with your hand into tiny pieces and set aside.
Step 2
In a medium/small pan, add the sweetened condensed milk, butter, and the pulp of passion fruit and non-stop mix in medium heat for about 15-20 minutes.
Step 3
When the brigadeiro is done, turn off the heat and add the smashed biscuits.
Step 4
In a small baking pan layered with parchment paper add the dough from the pan, mold on the baking pan, and fold with parchment paper. Let it cool for about 40 minutes.
Step 5
When cooled, take the parchment paper off, cut into little squares.
Step 6
Coat the pieces in caster sugar.
Step 7
When done, store them in a food storage container.