To fill the egg, place the ganache in the chocolate egg half and coarsely chop the 2 dark chocolate blocks on top of the ganache. Add the chilled white brigadeiro and crumble the paçoca on top.

Easter in Brazil means it's time to give your loved ones and friends chocolate eggs. ... In 2016, the average size of a Brazilian Easter egg has shrunk from 400 grams to 250 grams, ...

Easter time brings back my most remarkable memories of my brief childhood in Brazil. It was on Easter Sunday, when I was 4 year old, that my mother gave me my favorite doll that became my ...

A lot of Easter traditions — including hot cross buns and lamb on Sunday — stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern twist ...

Thirty years later, in 1873, Fry’s developed the first chocolate Easter egg as a luxury treat, merging the two gift-giving traditions. Chocolate eggs went mainstream in the 1960s.