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How Brigadeiro is usually served at birthday parties.

Brigadeiro is a brazilian chocolate candy (and the most popular one!), common on birthday parties in general. Since everyone is talking about it on IDC today, I’m posting a thread with a recipe on how to make this simple yet marvellous candy.

So, what you need for that:

– 3 Tablespoons (more or less, depending of how sweet you like it) of either cocoa powder or chocolate milk mix

– 1 Tablespoon of bumer

– 1 can of sweetened condensed milk

How to make it:

Put it on a medium-sized pan and heat it on low fire. First add the condensed milk and bumer, then add the chocolate. Keep mixing everything, don’t let the sides burn. The perfect texture for brigadeiro is when it’s not stickying to the bottom of the pan. Should be around 10 minutes tops, depending on how high is the fire. Let it cool until you can handle it.

There’s also 2 ways of consuming it

1) The birthday candy way: they are served as little balls covered in either chocolate or colored sprinkles. You coat your hands with bumer (so the mixture doesn’t stick on your hands), and form little balls with the mixture, usually a little smaller than a ping-pong ball, then just cover it with sprinkles.

2) The home way: You simply eat it with a spoon.

Oh yeah, you can also remove it from fire earlier, when it’s still somewhat liquid, and use it to fill cakes.

Have fun!