I can remember when my mom used to call our family to help make the docinhos (candy/sweet desserts) for parties! We would gather the whole familia to make what today I remember as one of the most fun times of my life!
My sister and I would patiently wait by the kitchen door while my mom was stirring the sweet mixture which would later, become several different amazing creations!
It was up to us to make the little balls and coat them with sugar, crushed peanuts, stuff them with a grape, stuff a dry prune with it … as much as we were making, we were eating, that was the most fun part of it!
I remember my mom saying, don’t touch, there will be nothing left for the guests! I would nod yes with a mouth full of brigadeiro!!! Such fond memories of a time which will never come to pass again!
Last year when I visited Brazil, my sister and I made brigadeiros together, to relive that tradition and remember those times when family got together to make sweet things: porque Lo que la dulzura une, nada lo separa. (What sweetness unites, no one can separate)
Those moments stay forever, so when I moved to the US, I decided to bring that tradition and get the family involved in carrying it on!
At our house, there’s no birthday party, no Christmas without a good brigadeiro, casadinho, doce de uva…..yummm!
So here, I stir the pot, my son adds the ingredients and my husband prepares the plates and the sugar for the recipe!
I know you’re curious, so let’s get to the easiest and most traditional Brazilian recipe: Casadinho. Which is a brigadeiro made in two different pots to be joined together later, with my own twist! You won’t believe how easy it is!
Casadinho
Ingredients
2 cans of La Lechera condensed milk
2 tbsp of butter
2 tbsp of cocoa powder
Granulated Sugar to coat
Thin slices of guava paste
Preparation
White Mixture
Place 1 can of La Lechera condensed milk, the butter and stir until the mixture detaches from the pot, you need to see it completely falling out of the bottom, not sticking when you turn the pot sidewards. Have another family member pass soft butter on a plate and reserve.
Chocolate Mixture
Do the same process with the chocolate mixture, just adding cocoa to the pot and stirring.
Place it on a plate previously coated with butter and let it cool off.
Spread butter on your hands and make the balls, basically the same size and coat them with sugar! We like making them small, so you can have just one or many of those delicious treats!
Coat them with sugar
Place your finger on both balls as you unite them and add the thin slice of guava paste to unite them better, forever … that’s what my mom used to say!
As we did when I was helping my mom, my son and I were eating as many balls as I was making! Because you need to keep the sweet traditions in the familia, right?
This super easy, no bake recipe only has a few ingredients and it’s soooo good you won’t want to miss trying it!
Hope you check our step by step video out:
As the name said: Casadinhos means newly wed, united together … perfect no bake dessert to keep your family together, celebrating the traditions you love the most!
That’s why I’m so excited to announce the Nestle La Lechera ‘No-bake’ Instagram contest and encourage you to share their own easy ‘no bake’ recipe for a chance to win cash and Nestle La Lechera prize packs. Themes will focus on spending more time in the kitchen together creating easy, kid-friendly summer recipes.
Read more: http://hispanickitchen.com/tag/lalecheranobake/
I’ve entered my recipe, can’t wait to see yours!
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This candy looks like a lot of fun to make and looks amazingly good!! Thank you for sharing the recipe, I will be trying it out with the family!
That looks delicious! No big and desserts for me are absolute when I’m going to have to give this a try.
When you put the words ‘no bake’ and ‘dessert’ together, you totally sway a terrible cook like me, these look divine.
Lovely recipe and it looks not so difficult. Nice family tradition 🙂 I bet everyone love it who would not love sweets;P)
As a baker I can honestly say I have never heard of these! You just KNOW they are going to be good, look at all that sugar!
Casadinhos look really lovely and tempting. Reading your post nostalgic memories of childhood came back where as a family ritual we cooked some special items together.
Sweets and candy making is also our family bonding when we were kids. Then my Mom taught us how to sell it and gain extra money 🙂
I miss those days 🙂
I love traditional sweets and though I have never tried casadinho before, I am sure I will love them. They have all my fave ingredients 🙂
Holy cow! We love that. My mom would be happy to do that candy dessert for all of us. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
I bet my son would love these, he has a sweet tooth. We make similar dessert like this in the Philippines.
I totally love this super easy to make recipes! Casadinhos looks really yummy. I absolutely love your story about eating these when your mom was making them.
I love cooking family traditions. And those sweets look amazing!
I’ve never heard of this type of dessert. Am always looking for baked goodies recipes so this is one to add to the list.
They look and seem so yummy am so excited. Especially cause I’ve never used guava pasta before
What a beautiful family tradition to get together to make something wonderful and tasty together. For my family this was tamales. I love learning about the making of Casadinhos. I’d never heard of these scrumptious little treats before. They look so delicious!
It sounds like you have a wonderful sentimental connection to this recipe. I love it and it makes me want to try it even more!
This looks so delicious. My kids would just eat this up and want me to make all the time. I love it’s so easy to make
I have never heard of this docinhos..Thank you for sharing the recipe, will try it soon.
I love your title! It looks easy to make, you might find me in the kitchen doing always doing this.
La Lechera is one of my favorite baking ingredients. Rich and creamy and adds a tasty flavor to any dish.
What lovely family memories to have! I need to try these sweets as they sound lovely!
this is delicious this is a new dish but i love to taste it.
these look and sound amazing! I’ve never heard of them or tried them but you have my mouth watering!
These treats look so delicious, I loved hearing about your families tradition . I love baking with my family and making all kinds of treats even as an adult .
I have never had these before. We love La Lechera brand condensed milk, we use it to make our Christmas desserts.
Those look delicious, I love that you wanted to bring the tradition along . Days in the kitchen with your family making all kinds of things is a great feeling.
I’d never heard of these desserts before but they sound so tasty! I’ll have to try making them sometime.
These sound delicious, and I love that they are a tradition you make with your family.
This is such a great tradition to keep going with your family. The Nestle La Lechera ‘No-bake’ Instagram contest sounds fantastic. I will have to check it out.
I have never heard of these. They look so tasty. This would be a great no bake snack for my kids.
I love that you have such great memories from your childhood. Some of my favorites are with cooking with my family also. I’d like to try your Casadinho recipe. This looks so delicious!
Wow! This looks soooooo good! I love trying recipes from different cultures and never heard of this. Can’t wait to try it! 🙂
This is perfect for my son’s birthday desserts table. So delicious and easy to make, I will try them! Thank you!
These Casadinhos look so good! I love sweets and would have loved to have a dessert party as part of my tradition. Yum.
I love my food and this looks delicious. I have never heard of it but I will definitely give it a go. Looks quite easy to follow too!
I love trying new sweets. I grew up on Portuguese food so I know I’d love this.
What sweetness unites, no one can separate….I love that motto! Not a lot of ingredients, and it looks easy to make!
This sounds so fantastic! I’ve never tried these before but I’d certainly be open to it! Yum.
I’ve never tried this but it sounds amazing! Anything with sweetened condensed milk is gonna be good!
This dessert is totally new to me and something I have never eaten before. Can’t wait to try making our own. Hope I pronounce it right.
Those look delicious! I love how we carry on traditions of our families. I will have to add these to the menu someday.
Talk about tasty! This is my first time seeing casadinhos, but I would love to try them. You can not go wrong with two sweet mixtures combining to make one delicious dessert!
I’ve never heard of these before. They seem very easy to make, and with little ingredients. I’ll have to give these a try before!
These look so yummy. I too would have a hard time not eating them as I made them
I’ve not heard of these before, I would love to reach through the screen and be able to pick one up and try it. I’ll have to just make some for myself.
This looks so decadent and so good. I will forget the calories and make this. Thanks for sharing the recipe
Ahhh! I have never heard of this before, but it will be in my belly by the end of the weekend! It looks so good. Om nom nom.
Haha I am so with you on that, it looks absolutely amazing and so delicious YUM!
What a great saying: “Lo que la dulzura une, nada lo separa.” I had never heard of casadinhos, but the ingredients all sound amazing!
I’ve never heard these before. They remind me of the truffles I make, but with different ingredients. I want to try these because they are unique and look so yummy.