17 childhood manioc cake recipes

Few things in life are as enjoyable as taking a mid-afternoon break and having a cup of coffee with a cup of coffee! Even better if it's a cake that has a face and smell of childhood, isn't it ?!

And it is this delicious, childhood-like feeling that the traditional cassava cake gives most people. Or would it be cassava cake? Or still, of cassava?

Whatever! Because, in fact, cassava has different names in various parts of Brazil. In Pernambuco, for example, people speak macaxeira; in Bahia, the name is wahoo; and in Sao Paulo, it's cassava.


But it is a mistake to think that cassava cake (or cassava or cassava) is always the same thing! While there are some very traditional (successful) recipes, some people like to innovate and give it a special touch. to the cake, for example by adding condensed milk, guava, cheese?

Get inspired by the recipes below and make your favorite cassava cake, allowing yourself the delicious feeling of remembering childhood!

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1. Mané peeled cake: a sweet always present at the June festivities of Minas Gerais and Goiás. The curious name honors an imaginary farmer who? for superstition or pure exhibitionism? harvested naked cassava!

2. Simple Cassava Cake: An easy recipe for a very tasty cake. You will only need wahoo, eggs, coconut milk, sugar, butter and chopped dry coconut. Great choice for an afternoon coffee!

3. Wahoo cake with condensed milk: mouth-watering! And the detail is that consuming it the next day is even better, because the cake has a crunchy cone on top, and soft inside. Good tip for when you will receive visitors.


4. Cheese Cassava Cake: To make this delicious cake you will only need butter, eggs, fresh coconut, condensed milk, Parmesan cheese, grated raw cassava, wheat flour, baking powder, salt, coconut milk and sugar.

5. Cassava Cake with Coconut: A cake that is simple to prepare but delicious and goes well with a coffee for breakfast or even breakfast. Alternative to when you will be visiting at home and want to serve something that pleases you, but also leaves you hours in the kitchen.

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6. Cassava cake with coconut and cheese: wet and tasty. A combination that has no mistake! You will only need eggs, butter, wahoo, coconut milk, sugar, grated coconut, parmesan, wheat flour, baking powder and salt.

7. Cassava cake with coconut and guava: a small variation in the recipe of this famous cookie. Good choice for those who love very sweet flavors! The tip of the author of the recipe is to use coconut fruit (in natura) instead of grated coconut in package, to make the cake even more delicious.

8. Creamy Cassava Cake with Coconut: A wonderful and very Brazilian cake. It has a crunchy texture, given by coconut, and silky, coming from cassava. The syrup is made only with crystal sugar, freshly grated coconut and water.

9. Creamy Cassava Cake with Coconut and Condensed Milk: To make this cake that is sweet and wet just right, you will need milk, eggs, sugar, wheat flour, condensed milk, shredded coconut and, of course, cassava. A recipe for success!

10. Banana Cassava Cake: A Way to Change (Increment) the Famous Wahoo Cake! In addition to cassava and bananas, you will use eggs, sugar, grated coconut, milk, butter, salt and baking powder.

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11. Light manioc cake: Who says you can't eat manioc cake without escaping the diet? This version is made with boiled cassava, eggs, demerara sugar, ghee butter, light coconut milk and fresh or dried shredded coconut without added sugar.

12. Blender Yucca Cake: A practical, common cake that's ideal for making when you're in a hurry, for example, or for the day when a visit arrives or kids have to bring a cupcake to school.

13. Gluten-free Wahoo Cake: A delicious cake that looks very wet. Best of all, it won't flour, so it's a gluten free cake. You will only need cassava, crystal sugar, oil, eggs, grated cheese, milk and yeast.

14. Lactose and Gluten Free Creamy Wahoo Cake: The recipe is simple, yields a medium cake and you will only use cooked wahoo, coconut milk, demerara sugar, rice flour, flaxseed flour, coconut oil, egg, yeast and grated coconut.

15Cassava cake with coconut and gluten-free sugarcane syrup: stays wet but light, considering the absence of gluten. This is, by the way, an excellent choice for celiacs (who have gluten intolerance). For the most daring, it is worth putting some ground cinnamon or some other spice.

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16. Puba cake: puba is cassava dough, which you already find ready for sale in some supermarkets. In this recipe, in addition to it, you will use coconut milk, butter, eggs, sugar, yeast and grated coconut.

17. Unleavened puba cake: Another recipe option for those who find it easy to find puba dough. The recipe does not take yeast and yields a large cake, with about 40 pieces, not to mention that it is quite simple to make.

The cassava cake is a guarantee of success, being ideal to serve the visitors or even to eat with the family, in an afternoon coffee. Simple to prepare and tasty, it's that kind of recipe that will keep going from generation to generation!

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