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Excellent Brazilian Brigadeiros with Almonds

Course Dessert
Cuisine Brazilian
Keyword Brigadeiro, Brazilian dessert, Brazilian treat
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 9
Author LDS’s Mom

Ingredients

  • 1 can ( 14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature plus more to grease your hands
  • 1/4 cup SIFTED unsweetened baking cocoa powder(special dark)
  • 1/4 cup almond powder

Toppings

  • Cocoa powder or coconut powder or chocolate sprinkles or pistachio powder or your favorite topping

Instructions

  1. Put the tablespoon of butter in a saucepan.

  2. Place the saucepan over medium low heat.

  3. Add condensed milk.

  4. Add cocoa powder and mix with a wooden spoon for about a minute.

  5. Add Almond powder and stir constantly until the mixture thickens. It took me about 20 minutes of stirring to get the mixture to thicken.

  6. Once the mixture thickens and takes a while to fall off the spoon, remove it from the heat.

  7. Place on a slightly greased plate and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.

  8. Grease your hands with butter.

  9. Use an ice cream scoop or just a spoon to scoop a small piece of the mixture at the time.

  10. Roll each piece into a small ball.

  11. Place the ball in cocoa powder and coat it well or use any of your favorite topping.

  12. Place the Brigadeiros in mini baking cups.

  13. Enjoy.

Recipe Notes

  • For the Almond powder, I have blanched and toasted the almonds then powdered them using a coffee grinder.
  • The total time to make these truffles didn’t include the chilling time.
  • I made 9 Brigadeiros that fit my mini baking  cups from the cited ingredients. If you form smaller Brigadeiros, you will get more than 9.