Holiday Sweet Surprise Chocolate Experience

We all know that Brazilian brigadeiro truffles are delicious on their own, however they can be even better when you add a secret surprise filling! This experience has all of the magic and fun of our classic brigadeiro experience with the added bonus of making your own speciality filled holiday brigadeiro truffles with limited edition Valrhona chocolate shells. It’s decadent, delicious, and guaranteed end of year holiday fun!

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Preparation

Activities

Kit Contents

Nutritional Information

Toppings

Instructional Videos

Decorating your chocolate shells

Filling your chocolate shells

Preparation

Let’s Do It!

Specialty Gourmet Filled Brigadeiros

specialty filled brigadeiros

Prep: Fill one quarter of your piping bag with brigadeiro by grabbing the middle of the piping bag with one hand and folding the top half of it over your hand to open it up. Gently spoon some brigadeiro into the piping bag, then twist the end until the bag meets the brigadeiro. With scissors, snip the tip off the bag and you’re ready to go!

Filling: Take one of your chocolate shells and fill it half way with your ‘secret center’ (think marshmallows, peanut butter, liquor, or jam) using a spoon or one of your pipettes. Cover the ‘secret center’ with some brigadeiro from the piping bag. Finally, wet or lightly butter your hands. Scoop a small amount of brigadeiro from one of the containers and gently roll it around the outside of your chocolate shell until it is covered with a thin, even layer of brigadeiro.

Decorating: Choose one or more toppings as a base color and roll your brigadeiro shell in the topping until it is evenly covered. Decorate the brigadeiro with individual sprinkles if you like and place it in a paper cup. That’s it. Try to change up the brigadeiro flavors and secret centers for your next two chocolate shells or even make a hot chocolate bomb (see Pro Tips for more info!)

Classic Holiday Brigadeiros

holiday themed chocolate brigadeiros

Filling: Wet or lightly butter your hands. Scoop some brigadeiro (not the spread) from the container and gently roll it between your palms into a ball.

Decorating: Place the ball onto a plate of topping and roll it around until it is evenly covered with the topping. Then gently roll the ball around between your palms to make sure the toppings have adhered to the brigadeiro. Add any individual toppings for some festive decoration and then place the finished briagdeiro in a paper cup. And that’s it. Just taste, repeat using different flavors and textures, and enjoy!

Bonus: For extra decoration and fun, fill one of your pipettes with liquor or syrup and stick it into one of your brigadeiros. To eat, just squirt the liquid into your mouth and then take a bite of the brigadeiro. Yum!

Pro Tips

  • If your brigadeiro is too soft to mold and shape, refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  • For the best flavor experience, cleanse your palate between sampling brigadeiros. Sparkling water, a slice of apple, or water with lemon work well.
  • The chocolate shells make great hot chocolate ‘bombs’. Just fill the shell with marshmallows and chocolate brigadeiro, cover it with extra brigadeiro, and drop it in a cup of hot milk!
  • The brigadeiro spread is great to use on toast, as a fruit dip, or as a coffee creamer. You can also warm it in the microwave for 10 seconds and turn it into a pourable sauce for ice cream!
  • You can use a pipette to fill your chocolate shell (like with liquor or jam) or stick a filled pipette directly into a brigadeiro as decoration. The pipettes can be cleaned and reused.
wine and chocolate truffle pairing experience

Activities

Holiday Creativity Challenge

Set a timer for 15 minutes. Choose any chocolate, toppings, props, or at-home pantry ingredients to make the most creative holiday brigadeiros. Present your creations and vote. Award categories could include: Best Overall, A for Effort, Best Sales Pitch, Most Colorful, Best Use of Tools, Most Original Flavor Combination.

The Snowman Battle

Building a snowman is a quintessential holiday activity. TBring your snowman-making skills inside by making a brigadeiro snowman. Using different brigadeiro, you can roll, coat, and stack your ‘snowballs’, before adding some decorations like accessories and colors for some extra personality. If you’re up for it, why not build a family?

Explore Taste and Texture

Foods can take on a number of different flavor and texture profiles when mixed together, such as sweet, salty, spicy, sweet & sour, fruity, classic, smooth, crunchy, and more! Choose 3 different flavor profiles and try to make 3 different brigadeiros with that in mind. What’s the most surprising flavor combination you can come up with? See how creative you can be!

Holiday Pairing

Try mixing and matching your brigadeiro with other classic holiday treats you may have around the house. Some of our favorites are mixing it in with hot chocolate or holiday blend coffee, using it as a cookie or fruit dip, drizzling it on ice cream or gingerbread, or pairing it with a full-bodied red or mulled wine.

A Holiday Story

Compete to see who can create the best Instagram-worthy holiday photo shoot. Style your brigadeiros with props and backdrops. Tell a story about the inspiration for your brigadeiro and your scene. After 10 minutes, vote for the funniest, most stylish, and most creative photos.

chocolate brigadeiro snowmen
Kit Contents

Makes 12 – 16 truffles

light blue brigadeiro cup

Dark Chocolate

yellow brigadeiro cup

Quatro Leches

Brigadeiro Chocolate

Toppings

Utensils

Makes 12 – 16 truffles

light blue brigadeiro cup

Vegan Dark Chocolate

yellow brigadeiro cup

Vegan Quatro Leches

Brigadeiro Chocolate

Toppings

Utensils

Makes 12 – 16 truffles

light blue brigadeiro cup

Dark Chocolate

yellow brigadeiro cup

Quatro Leches

Brigadeiro Chocolate

Toppings

Utensils

Makes 18-24 truffles

light blue brigadeiro cup

Dark Chocolate

yellow brigadeiro cup

Quatro Leches

light pink brigadeiro cup

Cranberry Milk Chocolate

dark pink brigadeiro cup

Pumpkin Spice Latte Spread

Brigadeiro Chocolate

Brigadeiro Chocolate Spread

Toppings

Utensils

Makes 18-24 truffles

light blue brigadeiro cup

Vegan Dark Chocolate

yellow brigadeiro cup

Vegan Quatro Leches

light pink brigadeiro cup

Vegan Cranberry Milk Chocolate

dark pink brigadeiro cup

Vegan Pumpkin Spice Latte Spread

Brigadeiro Chocolate

Brigadeiro Chocolate Spread

Toppings

Utensils

Makes 16-24 truffles

Makes 18-24 truffles

light blue brigadeiro cup

Dark Chocolate

yellow brigadeiro cup

Quatro Leches

light pink brigadeiro cup

Cranberry Milk Chocolate

dark pink brigadeiro cup

Pumpkin Spice Latte Spread

Brigadeiro Chocolate

Brigadeiro Chocolate Spread

Toppings

Utensils

Makes 16-24 truffles

Shelf Life

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neutral company

Nutritional facts

Toppings