Brigadeiro

Brigadeiro is a brazilian chocolate candy, best described as Chocolate Fudge Balls and is made using condensed milk, some butter und cocoa powder. These seemingly usual ingredients come together to form the always-delicious Brigadeiro, which is also an all-time favourite in Brazil, or so I heard from my brazilian friends, whom I knew from my language course.
It was these friends who taught me how to make them. In fact, it is so simple, there wasn't much to teach, just lots of sampling...
Esther loved these candy and ate three of them in succession. Her first compliment was: "The butterfly tastes good!" It was, of course, not really a compliment for me, since I did not make the butterflies, which are made of sugar. I just didn't like to cover them in chocolate sprinkles.

The non-chocolate variation is made without the cocoa powder but with grated coconut. It is also pretty good, but nothing like the chocolate ones. I will try again next time with some brandy I guess, but that will make them unsuitable for the kids...

In any case, a real calorie bomb! =)