Chocolate-Covered Honey Breads with Dulce de Leche Filling

Pão de Mel

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    20

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
My Rio de Janeiro: A Cookbook

By Leticia Moreinos Schwartz

Published 2013

  • About

If you grew up in Rio, then you certainly know the chocolate store Kopenhagen. You may also know lingua de gato, a milk chocolate in the shape of a cat’s tongue. How about nha benta? Another favourite of mine is pão de mel, wrapped individually for each solo indulgence. Many people swear that this tastes like honey, and while honey is a powerful ingredient in the recipe, the reason I love pão de mel is for the bigger pictur