Easy Valentine’s Day Chocolate Balls

Looking for a unique Valentine’s Day present? Try these easy Valentine’s Day chocolate balls! They are softer than a traditional European-style truffle and don’t require a double-boiler to melt chocolate. Using just four ingredients, these may just be your new go-to sweet.

This is a minor variation on a traditional Brazilian brigaderio. Typically brigaderios are rolled in chocolate sprinkles, but substitue chocolate sprinkles for red, white, and pink ones and you have a delicious Valentine’s Day treat.

Brigadeiro Recipe

Makes: 16 chocolate balls
Time: 30-60 minutes, depending on cooling time.

Ingredients

Instructions

1. In a saucepan, combine sweetened condensed milk, cocao powder, and butter.
2. Heat over medium heat until thick and bubbly. Watch for the chocolate mixture to pull away from the sides of the pan. This should take 5-10 minutes.
3. Once mixture is pulling away from the sides of the pan, remove the pan from the heat.
4. Cool mixture until it is safe to touch.
   • I leave the chocolate mixture in the pan until cool. This results in less dishes and clean up for me. Other recipes call for spreading the mixutre on a buttered plate or chilling the mixture in the freezer. Both of theses methods speed the cooling process.
5. With buttered hands, take a spoonful of the chocolate mixture and roll into a ball(s).
6. Roll the ball(s) in sprinkles.
7. Put brigadeiro on a plate or in liner.

Initial Review

Of course you have to try them! My seven-year-old responded…

“Mmm, brownie bites. You made these better than last time!”

Me: “Well, they are not brownie bites, but glad you like them!”

There you have it, easy Valentine’s Day chocolate balls. They are kid approved.