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"MMMM! I love plantains, especially sweet ones. This is a lower fat method of making "maduros" without the use of oil and frying in a pan."

Ingredients: cooking spray, plantains...

"A wonderfully delicious banana cake from Brazil. Nuts may be added into the batter or onto the cake if desired."

Ingredients: egg whites, egg yolks...

"This is a variation of the Rio-Style floats I found in Food & Wine magazine. I love ginger beer!"

Ingredients: crushed pineapple, pineapple sorbet...

"Cachaca is a Brazilian liquor distilled from sugarcane jice. If you cant get cachaca, substitute white rum or vodka."

Ingredients: kiwi fruits, limes, cachaca...

"I found this recipe on the World Recipes website, and thought it sounded like the perfect dessert to top off a nice dinner with a tropical theme. The recipe was listed as a Brazilian dessert."

Ingredients: fresh lemon juice, sugar...

"A drink from the bar Garota de Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Taken in a book"

Ingredients: passion fruit, lemon juice...

"I was on the beach at Porto De Galinhas Brazil when I found this recipe. It is amazing!"

Ingredients: coconut milk, condensed milk...

"This is a Brazilian version of a trifle. I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but I liked the sound of it. I found this recipe on (sadly departed) cleverchef.com a while back, but I believe it's originally from a cookbook called "Fiesta! A Celebration of Latin Hospitality". Note: allow for chilling time for assmbled trifle (minimum..."

Ingredients: cream cheese, egg yolks...

"This recipe is the only vegetarian dish I've been able to get my family to enjoy - and they really enjoyed it! Since sweet potatoes are so hard to chop up raw, I go ahead and boil them ahead of time until they're just tender enough that I don't need a chainsaw to get through them. Non-vegetarians can feel free to add 1/8 pound chopped sausage..."

Ingredients: fresh cilantro, mangoes...

"Dessert from Brazil. It's my own recipe.
I normally make this to save the bananas from going bad. when they start to get black on the outside and your family don't want to eat them, it's the right time to make this recipe."

Ingredients: sugar, water, bananas...

"This is a very refreshing and easy pie to make
Add which ever fresh tropical fruit you like to the top or a mixture traditioanlly they put on mango, papaya and guava slices. The recipe does not include a 2 hour chilling time in the fridge."

Ingredients: coconut, guava, eggs...

"Dulce de Coco - Brazil"

Ingredients: eggs, granulated sugar, milk...

"This is a recipe I found on the BigOven website. It's a sweet update of the classic brunch drink with a tropical twist, replacing the standard orange juice with passion fruit juice."

Ingredients: orange slices, passion fruit juice...

"This is from "Cuisines of Portguguese Encounters", which as recipes from the author's travels thru Portugal and its former colonies. This dish was made by Portuguese settlers combining their foods with the customs of the Tupi-Guarani Indians It's now part of Brazil's national cuisine. I haven't made it yet."

Ingredients: green bananas, rice...