When deciding what to make for last night’s Edinburgh Bakers Towers of Terrific Tray bakes (Take Two), I had wanted to make Fifteens since they are my most favourite tray bake in the world!! For my second choice I decided on Brigadeiros, which is what I took along – there was another Fifteen lover on the scene!!
Two years ago I was out in Brazil for a month working (hard gig I know!) and one of my colleagues girlfriend made these traditional Brazilian / Portuguese sweets for me, and I fell in love with them! What can be worse than the sweet creamy combination of condensed milk and chocolate?! (Note: Fifteens also contain condensed milk… I quite like it in case you hadn’t guessed!)
They are so easy to make and only contain really 2 main ingredients – Condensed Milk and Drinking Chocolate. Traditionally I believe in Brazil they use unsweetened cocoa powder, but I was advised that Brazilian Condensed milk was a lot sweeter than the UK version so Nesquik (other hot chocolates are available) would be better used instead.
Brigadeiros (Makes about 20 small ones, or 10 bigger ones)
Ingredients
1 tin of condensed milk
3 tbsp. Nesquik (or similar)
1 tbsp. Butter
Method
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Put all the ingredients into a saucepan over a medium heat
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Continually stir the ingredients until the mixture thickens up, which is around 10 minutes. When you drag a spatula through it it should do this:
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Tip the mixture into a lightly greased bowl and leave to cool down
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Once its at a temperature were you can hold it, lightly grease your hands and roll the mixture into small (or large!) balls.
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Toss them in some chocolate sprinkles
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Put them in the fridge for an hour or so to firm up a bit
And there you have it, an easy little morsel to have with a nice cup of tea!
