Cocadas

Cocadas are a typical coconut candy or cookie that is served in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and over much of Latin America. They are oven baked but are served at room temperature to obtain their chewy and soft texture. Made with egg and shredded coconut, cocadas come in a variety of colors due to the modern use of food coloring,^[1] but the traditional ones are golden brown. They are often garnished with almonds, either whole or chopped.^[2] There are hundreds of recipes for cocadas which range in texture from the typical hard, very sweet balls to those which are almost the texture of flan.^[1] Other fruit, often dried, can be added to the cocadas to create variety.^[3] Cocadas are mentioned as early as 1878 in Peru.^[4]

In Colombia, cocadas are sold on the streets, and particularly on the beaches, by women who carry them on large aluminum trays.^[5]

See also

• Macaroon

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Mounts, Deborah "Cocada Dessert Recipe" BellaOnline, accessed 5 March 2010
2. ^ "Cocada Dulce" in Spanish, accessed 5 March 2010
3. ^ Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo and Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia (1961) The people of Aritama: the cultural personality of a Colombian mestizo village University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page 63, OCLC 1488921
4. ^ Raimondi, A. (1878) "Zur physikalischen Geographie von Peru - II" Globus 36: pp. 173-175 page 174, in German
5. ^ McCausland-Gallo, Patricia (2004) "Cocades Costeñas" Secrets of Colombian Cooking Hippocrene Books, New York, page 177, ISBN 0-7818-1025-6

External links

• Mexico Cooks!, photograph of cocadas.