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

• Put all the ingredients into a saucepan over a medium heat
• 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:

• Tip the mixture into a lightly greased bowl and leave to cool down
• Once its at a temperature were you can hold it, lightly grease your hands and roll the mixture into small (or large!) balls.
• Toss them in some chocolate sprinkles
• 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!