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Brigadeiros

Name: Brigadeiros
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: 14 oz Sweetened condensed milk, one can; 2 tbsp Unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 tbsp Unsalted butter, plus a little for the dish and your hands; ½ cup Semi-sweet chocolate chips, finely chopped, for coating

1 hr 30 minServes 10$23.96

Sweetened condensed milk is cooked with cocoa powder and butter, stirring constantly, until it thickens and pulls away from the pan, then cooled, rolled into small balls, and coated. Finely chopped semi-sweet chocolate is used in place of chocolate sprinkles (granulado), which are not a canonical ingredient, so the coating is coarser.

Ingredients

14 ozSweetened condensed milkone canBuy 1 can
2 tbspUnsweetened cocoa powderBuy 1 canister
1 tbspUnsalted butterplus a little for the dish and your handsBuy 1 package
½ cupSemi-sweet chocolate chipsfinely chopped, for coatingBuy 1 bag

Substitution

Semi-sweet chocolate chips in place of “Chocolate sprinkles (granulado)”. Finely chopped semi-sweet chocolate chips replace chocolate sprinkles, which are not a canonical ingredient; the coating is coarser and less even.

Method

Put the condensed milk, cocoa, and butter in a heavy nonstick saucepan and whisk until smooth.
Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly with a spatula, until the mixture is thick and glossy and slides away from the bottom of the pan in one mass, 10 to 15 minutes.
Scrape into a buttered dish, cool, then chill until firm enough to shape, about 1 hour.
With lightly buttered hands, roll heaping teaspoons into balls, roll each in the chopped chocolate, and set them in small paper cups.