Doce de Leite da Maria das Dores Paiva

Doce de Leite is a staple on the dessert tables of Minas Gerais. It is served as an accompaniment to the array of sweets that appear on the sideboard. In the fazendas, it is always made fresh, along with the cheese. It’s available in cans and used as a filling for rocambole—sponge cake rolled with the cream like a jelly roll or roulade. Street vendors use buckets of the stuff to fill hot hollow tubelike doughnuts in the streets of small towns.