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Gluten-Free Cheesy Bread. Yep.

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Brace yourselves! The post you have all been waiting for! CHIPÁ! What is chipá?  I call it cheesy bread.   According to Wikipedia via Google: " Cheese buns ,   cheese breads,   pão de queijo  or   chipá  are a variety of small, baked, cheese-flavored rolls ”. I have a few problems with this definition: 1.       These are not cheese flavored. There is real cheese (and lots of it) in these bad boys. 2.      Cheese bun sounds like a version of a Danish and, again, these are not “flavored” or Danish-like In other South American countries there have variations on chipá so I give kudos to Wikipedia for associating them with Brazil’s popular pão de queijo. I discovered these bundles of joyful deliciousness while dining at Cabaña Las Lilas.  I asked if they had any gluten-free bread and they pointed to the chipá.  I was initially very hesitant because the consistency was li...