Brigadeiro

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (400 g) can sweetened condensed milk
• 3 tablespoons cocoa (for chocolate flavour) or 1 tablespoon vanilla essence (for coconut flavour)
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
• 4 tablespoons desiccated coconut (for coconut flavour)
• chocolate sprinkles
• desiccated coconut, extra

Recipe

• 1 for chocolate flavour: put condensed milk, butter and cocoa in a saucepan and cook on medium heat, stirring continually until mixture is thick and sticks to the spoon.
• 2 grease a plate well and put the mixture on it. refrigerate for 30 minute.
• 3 take the plate out and butter your hands well. taking a teaspoonful at a time with your hands, roll into a small ball and then roll in chocolate sprinkles.
• 4 for coconut flavour: put condensed milk, coconut, vanilla essence and butter in saucepan. proceed the same as chocolate flavour, only roll in dessicated coconut when done.