Oven-Baked Brigadeiro
A Brazilian chocolate flan with an incredibly silky centre — as easy as a pudding and twice as indulgent. The oven-baked brigadeiro comes together in a blender in ten minutes, then the oven does the rest. Finished with chocolate sprinkles, it never lasts long.
🛒 Ingredients
10 servings
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (397 g)
- 200 ml (¾ cup) heavy cream
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 3 eggs
- 6 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- Chocolate sprinkles, to decorate
- A little butter, for greasing
- Aluminium foil
- 1 flan or pudding mould, about 20 cm (8 in)
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Directions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180 °C (350 °F). Blend the condensed milk, cream, melted butter, eggs and cocoa for 10 minutes, until completely smooth.
- 2
Grease the mould generously and pour in the mixture.
- 3
Cover tightly with foil and bake for 1 hour — the flan should be set but still wobble slightly in the middle.
- 4
Take the mould out of the oven and let it cool for 15–20 minutes.
- 5
Unmould gently and scatter over the chocolate sprinkles while the flan is still warm, so they stick.
💡 Chef's Tip
Brazilian 'medium oven' is roughly 180 °C / 350 °F. Don't bake it longer than an hour or the flan turns airy with bubbles. It looks soft coming out of the oven — that's normal, it firms up completely as it cools. Unmould it while still warm: it releases more cleanly and cracks less.
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