Quindim is a popular Brazilian baked dessert, made chiefly from sugar, egg yolks and ground coconut. It is a custard and usually presented as an upturned cup with a glistening surface and intensely yellow color.

"Quindim" is a word of African origin. When it arrived in Brazil as a Portuguese sweet, its original recipe consisted mainly of eggs, sugar, and almonds. The almonds were not easy to find in Brazil, so the recipe was probably modified by the slaves in the Bahia region in the seventeenth century, thanks to the abundance of coconut in the region at the time. Bahian cuisine is a blending of African and Portuguese flavors and the Quindim is a sweet treat to be enjoyed after a meal as a dessert or in the afternoon as a rich snack.

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