Chocolate Brigadeiros Dessert
This BRIGADEIRO chocolate dessert is fudgy, delicious, and addictive. They are small chocolate fudge balls and loved in Brazil as cookies and brownies are within the United States.
Traditionally, brigadeiros are made of an easy combination of condensed milk, butter, and sweetened cocoa powder, cooked to a fudge narrate and then fashioned into small balls and rolled in chocolate sprinkles.
This incredible dessert is to give as a reward on any occasion. Children and adults just love it.
SERVES/YIELD: 25
Ingredients:
- 2 (14-ounce) cans of sweetened condensed milk
- 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons of heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons of gentle corn syrup
- 3 ounces of semisweet, chopped chocolate
- 1 cup of chocolate sprinkles, preferably Guittard
Instructions:
- In a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan, mix the condensed milk, heavy cream, butter, and corn syrup then boil over medium heat.
- When the mixture begins to bubble add the chocolate and the cocoa powder. Try to bound them properly, and make sure there aren’t any pockets of cocoa powder left.
- Immediatly decrease the warmth to low and cook, whisking constantly (or the perimeters of the pan will burn the fudge) for approximately 8 to 10 minutes until it miles the consistency of a dense fudgy batter. Important tip: If you undercook it, the brigadeiro shall be too snug and if you overcook it, it will be too chewy. When correctly done, you swirl the pan and the mixture slides as one soft piece, leaving a thick burnt residue on the bottom.
- Slowly pour the mixture into a bowl (with out scraping the bottom) and let it cool down at room temperature.
- When the mixture isn’t hot any more, cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge, but for no more than 4 hours.
- Scoop a spoonful of the mix and using your fingers roll into barely ball about 1 inch in diameter (just like a chocolate truffle).
- Put the sprinkles in a bowl and roll 4 or 6 brigadeiros at a time inside it, making sure they cover all the surface.
- Put your Brigadeiros in an airtight plastic container, and you may keep them for 2 days or as much as 1 month in the fridge.
ADICIONAL INFORMATION: The original Brazilian Brigadeiro has neither heavy cream nor corn syrup. The recipe is very simple: 1 can of sweet condensed milk, 1 soupspoon of butter and 3 soupspoon of ground chocolate (not cocoa). The instructions are pretty the same but a very important tip is to smear some butter in the dish where you are going to pour the dough after cooking it.
