In a tiny store called Maria Torta located in Teresópolis, I discovered a version of nhá benta that rose above the kind I grew up with. Bite into the chocolate shell-like crust and there is a surrender to the perfect combination of a slightly sweet creamy marshmallow mountain atop a crumbly cookie. They use a local cookie that is hard to find anywhere else but very easy to replace. Here I like to use small and crunchy vanilla wafer biscuits, and for the coating, I us
