Cocadas

 As I mentioned on my last post, for my niece's birthday party we had the kids decorate their own cocadas.

Cocadas are balls made out of different ingredients, often covered with coconut shavings (hence the name "cocadas").

You need a dry ingredient as a base, a sticky ingredient, a fruit and toppings to cover it.

For my niece's birthday we made vanilla cookies, manjar (dulce de leche) and a smashed banana. Mix it all together to form a dough and roll it into balls.

The kids chose the toppings, in this case chocolate and rainbow sprinkles and royal icing.


My favourite recipe however is oatmeal, condensed milk and smashed strawberries for the mix, covered with powdered sugar.

You can try many combinations. My boyfriend once made manjar, oatmeal and kiwi cocadas. They were a hit!


For a birthday activity you can also let the kids make their own ball and cover it with chocolate (this is what my 11 year old brother did with his cocadas).

Enjoy!

Pink birthday party

Hello!

Last saturday we had a party for my 4 year old niece's birthday. It was a lot of work because this was the first time my sister threw a party for her. Everything was great, guests had a really good time and Liliana, my niece, was ecstatic.

For the activities kids decorated vanilla cookies and cocadas with royal icing and sprinkles. They also could paint and draw on white canvases.

For food, besides traditional party food, such as chips, peanuts and cheetos we served mini cupcakes, marshmallows and fruit with a chocolate fountain, and cakepops.

The birthday cake was chocolate cake, with chocolate/manjar filling and Italian meringue on top. It had sugar paste flowers.

More pics on my flickr.