Cocada is a dessert or a small sweet made with - you guessed - coconut. There are a lot of ways of preparing these wonderful offerings from Bahia; this one happens to be a "big" cocada, that you eat with a spoon.
1 lb of grated coconut (the real thing, please, not the sweetened stuff from a package) Latino markets sell frozen grated coconut that tastes just like the ones I used to grate at home. Saves you time and grated knuckles...
4 egg yolks
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of milk
2 Tbsp of butter or margarine
Preheat oven to 350░ F. Mix sugar, butter, egg yolks, milk and coconut together with a spoon. Put the mixture in a beautiful soufflΘ dish and bake it until the top is a golden color. Remove and let cool before serving. That's it! Put some Olodum or Daniela Mercury music on and you'll feel as if you were in Bahia...