Brigadeiro
The chocolate truffle that shows up at every Brazilian birthday and leaves with none of its friends. Three ingredients, one pan, and a spoon you will absolutely be licking.
- Total time
- 15 min
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
What you need
Written for 4 — nudge the counter and the numbers follow.
0 of 5 in the basket.
How you make it
Whisk the condensed milk, cocoa, butter and salt together in a cold non-stick saucepan until no lumps of cocoa remain.
Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly with a spatula and scraping the base, for 9 to 11 minutes.
Stop when dragging the spatula across the base leaves a clear line that takes a second to close up.
Scrape onto a buttered plate and cool for 3 minutes, then butter your hands and roll teaspoons of the mixture into balls.
Roll each ball in sprinkles and set in small paper cases.
Read all that and thought “absolutely not”?
Completely fair. Brigadeiro is sitting in the Brazilian kitchen right now, it costs nothing, and it will never arrive.
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