Brazilian Sandwich Cookie

Elvira Bona is a Maranhense (a person born in the state of Maranhao) who now lives in Rio de Janeiro, where she bakes up to 5,000 bem casados a week from her kitchen in Copacabana and ships them throughout the country.

The literal translation for bem casado is ‘well married’, meaning that one cookie should be perfectly fitted with the other, similar in concept to French macarons. They can be filled with dulce de leche, lemon cream, passion fruit curd,