Brigadeiros Recipe

In a saucepan, melt half of the butter. When melted, add the condensed milk and chocolate powder and mix well and simmer over low heat for about 15 minutes until the mix achieves the right consistency (this happens when you pass the spoon across the middle of the pan and the space you created stays for a few seconds). Turn off the heat and set aside.

Prepare your work station. We'recommend covering a table surface with newspaper. On this place a large plate or tray and a bowl.

Fill the bowl with the chocolate sprinkles.

Also, put the remaining butter on a small plate which provides easy access.

When the chocolate mixture has cooled for about ten minutes and is warm enough to handle, bring the saucepan to your work station. Butter your hands thoroughly. Pick out a small bit of the mixture from the pan using your thumb, forefinger and middle finger. Roll this into a ball using both hands and toss into the bowl of sprinkles. Roll the ball in the sprinkles until it is coated and then place into one of the mini-cupcake holders or directly onto your tray or plate.

Repeat until you've finished the mixture buttering your hands as often as necessary to prevent the mixture from sticking to them.

Allow them to sit for about one hour at room temperature (if you refrigerate they will get hard and very sticky, like toffee).

Serves all the people who need some lovin’

Note:

(Women) If you have just been dumped, I recommend you save your sprinkles and eat the whole mixture straight out of the pan with a wooden spoon while sitting in front of the TV watching "Gone with the Wind" or a Meg Ryan movie on your VCR.

(Men) Clint Eastwood in "Play Misty for Me"