Brigadeiro is a Brazilian sweet that tastes like
chocolate on
steroids. Mandatory in
children's
birthday parties, it is fairly easy to prepare (but for a small
catch *grin*), and is made countrywide by sweet hungry
youngsters.
It is named after the highest patent in the
Brazilian air force - that would be brigadier in English.
In its most elaborate form, it's presented as balls about 3 centimeters (1 and a little inch) in diameter, sprinkled with granulated chocolate. When prepared to be eaten immediately by children, chocoholics, people gathered to watch a video, and gwidions in general it is swallowed in cream form, with no one having time or patience to carefully shape the little balls, much less sprinkling. This granulated chocolate is mostly low quality and too sugar tasted to be usefull anyway.
The catch is that the main ingredient to making the brigadeiro is
condensed milk (a nodeshell as I write this). It is not common out of Brazil and East Asian countries (thanks to narzoz on this). Imagine whole milk. Now imagine the water removed to it until it's dense, too dense to fall when turned upside down, it can only flow slowly. This, I think, is known as evaporated milk (another nodeshell), and luckily can be found elsewere in the world. Now add sugar to that. A lot of sugar. It is now a white - light yellow cream that burn a little so sweet it is.
If you are in Brazil, just walk to your favorite supermarket or grocery store, pick your brand of condensed milk for about a buck and a half, and you are game. If you are not, them you may be able to find it in ethnic grocery stores