30 Easy and Delicious Italian Straw Recipes

Italian straw, also known as Brazilian straw, is considered an Italian-Brazilian version of a traditional Italian sweet, salami di cioccolato (chocolate salami), where the chocolate is stuffed with pieces of cookies and shaped into a salami shape.

Despite its uncertain origin, Italian straw has gained space and admirers in all parts of our country. Adding biscuits to the milk or cornstarch to the brigadeiro has resulted in a practical and easy-to-make candy that pleases even the most demanding palates.

Although its traditional recipe is based on these two ingredients, brigadeiro and biscuit, along with the creativity of the Brazilian, the candy has become versatile, being produced in various formats and combinations of flavors.


Check out some options of Italian straw recipes, in different interpretations, to try at home and enjoy:

Traditional Italian Straw

1. Italian Straw Recipe: Using only 5 ingredients, the owner of the recipe can represent the simplicity of this candy: simply add pieces of biscuit to the traditional brigadeiro, spread in a butter-greased refractory, cut to desired size and pass into refined sugar . Easier, impossible.

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2. Traditional Italian Straw: Another option of the traditional recipe, the author emphasizes the practicality and versatile preference of the candy, present from weddings to bakeries. Here, Italian straw is rolled into a brigadeiro shape and passed in icing sugar, ensuring a gourmet look.

3. Italian Chocolate Straw: In this recipe, you choose buttery biscuits to ensure more sweet flavor. The brigadeiro's flavor is accentuated by the choice to use dark chocolate in the brigadeiro recipe. Delicious!

4. Italian Brigadeiro Straw: For this recipe, blogger Daniele Noce uses sour cream, in addition to condensed milk. Again dark chocolate is featured in the recipe, ensuring that the candy is not too nauseating. To make it even more beautiful, the author decided to use larger pieces of cookie.


5. Italian straw with chocolate powder: For this recipe, chocolate powder was used as an ingredient in both the production of the brigadeiro and the finishing of the candy, sprinkling it all over the Italian straw.

6. Italian Milk Biscuit Straw: Seeking to make the most personalized and tasty Italian straw, this recipe brings a brigadeiro made with hazelnut cream. For a harmonious combination, milk biscuits were used. For sprinkling, chocolate powder adds even more flavor to the candy.

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Italian straw with different ingredients

7. Italian Nutella Straw: Here the Brigadier is made as easy as possible. Just cook the condensed milk and Nutella for about 2 minutes. Add the cookie into pieces, place in a refractory to cut it and sprinkle sugar. Simple and practical.

8. Italian white brigadier straw: the brigadier is white, and the chocolate chip cookie. This adaptation could not have worked out better! For the brigadeiro, only condensed milk, milk powder and margarine. Bring them to the fire until they come off the bottom of the pan. Worth a try!

9. Italian Almond Straw: Here, besides producing the brigadeiro using chopped dark chocolate, the author also adds vanilla essence and toasted and rolled almonds to give that special touch to the candy.

10. Italian Peanut Straw: In this recipe we used the cornstarch and peanut cookies, ensuring greater crispness and flavor to Italian straw.

11. Italian dulce de leche straw: For this delicious Italian straw, the author prepares a dulce de leche by cooking a can of condensed milk in the pressure cooker, mixing the dulce de leche with a can of condensed milk, leading to fire until it comes off the pan. Finally, chopped chocolate chip cookies ensure the crisp look to the plate.

12. Dulce de leche and cookies: another recipe with? Brigadeiro? of dulce de leche. In this version, instead of using chocolate chip cookies, the recipe owner adds soft cookies to the candy, making it even tastier.

13. Walnut Italian Straw: To make this Italian straw even more special, walnuts have been added, an oilseed rich in vitamin C, E and selenium, which helps to strengthen the body's defenses as well as leaving the candy with a textured texture. and a special taste.

14. Italian Oreo Straw: Based on the white brigadeiro dough, the author innovates using the famous chocolate chip cookie. To sprinkle, refined sugar. Besides being easy to do, it will surely please those who taste it.

15Italian milk powder straw and chocolate topping: Based on this, you get white brigadeiro made from a mixture of powdered milk, margarine and condensed milk. The chosen biscuit was cornstarch and, seeking to add more charm and sweetness to the dish, after cutting, the straw is dipped in melted chocolate. Beautiful and delicious.

16. Italian straw with coffee: In this version, cookies are ground in the processor, thus making their presence less pronounced. To add flavor to the candy, a soluble coffee spoon is added to the brigadeiro, making all the difference in the end result.

Italian straw without chocolate

17. June Straw: Unusual version, is a great option for the June holidays. Here the mixture is made up of corn brigadeiro, guava stuffing and the crushed cookie in the processor is used to "bread". the sweet. The result is amazing!

18. Italian Coconut Straw: With the pasta made basically of kisses, this Italian straw does not contain chocolate in its preparation, but remains as tasty as the traditional. To confection them and to caprice in the finishing, use grated coconut.

19. Italian Lemon Straw: Named by its author as Sicilian straw with dulce de leche, this recipe has the Sicilian lemon as the highlight of the dish. The differential is to join two squares of the straw using the dulce de leche as a filling. The mixture is delicious and irreverent.

20. Italian dulce de leche straw: Once again the conventional brigadier loses his place for that of dulce de leche. The recipe suggests using pressure-boiled condensed milk to make the candy even tastier. The biscuits chosen were cornstarch and for sprinkling, the elected was refined sugar.

21. Italian Passion Fruit Straw: To make the passion fruit brigadeiro, simply add concentrated fruit juice to the familiar mixture of condensed milk and margarine. Bring it to the fire until it comes off the bottom of the pan. Add the cookies in pieces and confection with refined sugar.

22. Functional Italian dulce de leche and lemon straw: For this recipe the author sought to use functional ingredients such as green banana biomass, coconut milk, almond vegetable milk and gluten-free crackers. The result: a candy to please even those who are on a diet or have some kind of dietary restriction.

23. Italian Guava and Cheese Straw: Using the Famous Guava-Cheese Mix or? Romeo and Juliet? An easy and delicious recipe was made. In addition to the two featured ingredients, a cup of cashews and chopped almonds is added, making the candy even tastier and crunchier.

Italian straw in different presentations

24. Italian straw wrapped: the recipe is traditional, but the presentation not so much. To make the candy even more appetizing how about wrapping it as a brigadeiro and serving it in pans with different colors and designs?

25. Italian Straw Pie: This version is for Italian straw lover no blemish. It is assembled in a round shape with removable bottom. The differential is also due to the use of whole cookies, only dipped in milk and arranged in layers.

26. Vegan Italian Straw: Made from plant-based foods only, this Italian straw proves to be a versatile and delicious dish, even with adaptations. Ideal for those who do not consume animal foods or are on a diet restricted group.

27. Iced Italian Straw Pie: Served in a pie shape, this Italian straw comes with cream ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate drops as a topping, leaving the dish visually flawless and mouth-watering.

28. Italian Scoop Straw: Want a more elaborate presentation? Then serve the Italian straw in cups. This version is made with melted dark chocolate and dulce de leche, cornstarch biscuit and topped with sprinkled icing sugar.

29. Gluten-free and lactose-free Italian straw: Using lactose-free ingredients such as special condensed milk, almond milk, green banana biomass and gluten-free biscuits, the dish gains adaptations for lactose and celiac intolerants.

30. Light Italian Straw: If you are on a calorie restricted diet, you can eat this candy without fault. The recipe brings green banana biomass, brown sugar and chocolate powder, healthy ingredients that guarantee fewer calories to the dish.

Whether choosing the traditional version or even adapting it, changing a few ingredients or adding new ones, Italian straw is a sweet and easy to prepare and unique flavor, ideal for special occasions or when the urge to eat a sweetie attacks. Choose your favorite and get to work!

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