Brigadeiros [First Meeting]

Hello folks!


So here we are with our first post. We had our first meeting last Saturday and quite a few of us managed to come on such a wonderful day. We took our time to present ourselves, talk about our cooking experiences and preferences, reaching the conclusion we're all here to share all we know about cooking and eating :D


Our first recipe was Brigadeiros, a very simple-three-ingredients-super-yummy one, and here follows the recipe.



All you need is:

• 1 can of condensed milk
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 3 tablespoons of cocoa power



Don't stop stirring!

• lots of chocolate sprinkles :D

Mix the condensed milk, butter and cocoa powder in a pan and bring it to the oven at medium temperature (no need to pre-heat this one), and stir. Stirring for this recipe is for a long time, you may need a second person there to take turns with you if you get tired of it. Make sure you do this in rapid movements and non stop, reaching every corner, bottom and sides of the pan so it doesn't burn (that's very easy to happen if you don't stir it properly). The condensed milk heating process goes like this: it's kinda hard as it's still cool, goes a little more liquid like as it heats up, begin to boil (CAREFUL HERE: make sure your spoon is long enough so you don't burn yourself with the bubbles popping at this stage) and then it hardens as the sugar in it caramelizes with the other ingredients. And that's when you know it's ready! Usually you can see the bottom of the pan when it's hard enough (this usually takes from 10 to 20 min after it starts boiling). 

Yummy Brigadeiros

After this you take your pan and let it cool down. You can spread all the hot-chocolate-melted-fudge-looking mix on a baking tray or any other clean surface so it cools down faster. After it's cool, you can now get some butter, rub it in the palm of your hands so you can roll small portions of your mix without it sticking to your hands. So you roll them in your hands first and gently roll them on the chocolate sprinkles. They should get a nice and homogenic layer of the sprinkles for a nice presentation of them.

Some more fun pics of us, all by Mariana Greif:

And that was it for our first session. Result? A bunch of sticky hands a smily faces :D

Bon Appetit!