Pé-de-moleque

'Pé de moleque' (Portuguese: [ˈpɛ dʒi muˈlɛki]) (literally "brat's foot" in Portuguese) is a traditional candy from Brazil. It is made of peanuts and rapadura or molasses.

The candy is prepared by mixing roasted, peeled peanuts with melted brown sugar, with or without the addition of macerated peanuts as well. The mixture is gently stirred over low heat until it gets close to crystallizing. Then the mixture is placed on a plain stone or metal surface (preferably thinly oiled with butter to ease removal) in pieces similar in size to cookies. This traditional preparation results in soft, irregularly-shaped sweets of a dark brown color. Softness results from the incorporation of peanut oil.

In India, mainly in the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, they call it chikki. In Portugal, pé de moleque is known as nougat. In Mexico, it is called palanqueta.

There is a derivation of the candy in the version of a cake, common to festa juninas from places in the Brazilian Northeast. Pé de moleque cake is also called "bolo preto" (black cake), in which cashews can replace peanuts, rapadura is kept and fermented cassava mass (pubada, puba mass) and other ingredients.