General information: Brigadier (Brigadier in Portuguese) is a very famous Brazilian dessert. It was first dated in 1940 and got its name, "Brigadier," after Eduardo Gomes (link here in Wikipedia about Eduardo Gomes), the famous air force Brigadier from Brazil, Which loved this small chocolate dessert. It is great for birthdays in Brazil, brigadier is a must in birthdays) and other parties, being easy to make and very delicious.
Preparation time: 30-60 minutes.
Ingredients:
- One 14-ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
- 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder (or you can use 7 tablespoons of the chocolate powder like "Nesquik")
- 1 tablespoon of butter saltless
- Chocolate sprinkles or of some cocoa powder or chocolate rasps (Which I preffer) for decoration.
How you do it:
1. First pour the sweetened condensed milk, the 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder (or the 7 tablespoons of chocolate powder) and the tablespoon of butter saltless in a big cooking pot.
2. Cook it in low heat / fire to Prevent boiling of the mixture and specially, keep mixing it (it is very important, or it may burn in the bottom of your pot). Keep it for around 10-15 minutes: in fact this is the trickiest part - When ready it is shiny and starts to pull away from the sides and the bottom of your cooking pot.
3. When it gets the right texture, take if off the heat and wait around 30 minutes. After que, butter your hands, get some of the brigadier mixture and start rolling it, making balls (a good size is around an 1 inch ball). Roll these balls in the chocolate sprinkles Either, cocoa powder or rasps and it is done chocolate. Ready to serve - some people prefer it in ambient temperature, but other prefer it cold.
Tips and observations: it may be hard to get the right "point" of the mixture in the first team, it may get too soft or too hard to be rolled into balls. You can Also use the brigadier mixture (cooked a bit less, in a cream like texture) in brigadier filled cakes (brigadier cakes are more common than regular chocolate cakes here in Brazil), cupcakes or even to eat it with ice cream.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadeiro
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