Red Yellow Black

Episode 21 - Brigadeiro

“Ehm, a-sister .. and .. uncle did you wake up?” the boy looked alternately at the man and the girl who were still unconscious. Both of them were not far from them. The older brother turned his face towards the two men after hearing the boy's question.

“Kakak doesn't know either. But, since I woke up earlier they were like that,” replied the brother. They looked at both of them for a long time. It was like the boy was stroking his sister's hair, but what a power he was still weak. Seeing the sad look mixed with the boy's longing, big brother hugged him affectionately.

“You strong brother,” comfort the sister who was replied with a smile and a tear in the boy's right eye.

“Oh yes Kak ..” said the boy hanging, “This,” he continued while giving an object like brigadeiro to the brother. The older brother was a little surprised but also happy to mix curious about how he managed to bring that thing here.

“K-you brought that with you? how can?” ask the brother, “doesn't the representatives of the royal forces have been many?” continued the brother. He remembered once that the object had been forced to be given to one of the representatives of the royal forces who ambushed the family home of the two boys. Yes, exactly before the representatives of the royal forces reneged on his promise not to kill their parents.

*Flashback

“Kakak, look dong I have a sister cake not shalalala,” said the younger sister with her cheerfulness. The girl clasped a chocolate cake studded with a ball-shaped mess that was no bigger than a bekel ball. He was very carefree to find himself able to show off to his beloved older brother.

“Wah Brother sister got cake from where? brother wants dong,” replied the boy. He approached his sister to see the cake. The girl immediately pulled her hand behind her back to hide the cake she was carrying from her brother. He wanted to share it, but later after he was satisfied to show it to his brother.

“Cannot! Wlee wlee,” led by the sister who then ran away. The older brother who had longer legs easily caught the younger brother. He surrounded his sister in his arms while trying to open the tight grip of the right hand of the sister who was holding the cake.

“Kasir ngga, ntar sister gelitikin loh.” The real brother could have opened the hand of the sister and took the cake pretending that his sister was not sad. He slightly tickled his sister's waist who finally laughed.

“Hahaha, udah Kak ameli freelance me hahaha,” said the kegelian sister. The seven-year-old sister then stopped her tingling with her three-year-old sister. The sister then tried to split the two cakes but failed.

“Keras Kak, I can not be split,” said the sister handed the cake to brother. The brother then tried to split the round-shaped cake with both hands. Same with my sister, I couldn't do it either. In fact, he tried to bite the cake.

“Aw,” he said while holding the right cheek whose teeth in it had just been used to split the cake. He also could not split the cake and handed it back to his sister.

“That cake is really hard?” ask the brother.

“This chocolate cake balls Kak tuh no message as well,” replied innocently the sister.

“It's not a cake, Dek. Hard cake time really, weird.” The brother who used to add the word ‘aneh’ in his sentence made the sister sad to hear it. He tried to bite the cake but still failed to split it.

“This is a cake,” he said.

“Not,”

“Iya cake,”

“There is a hard cake so. Who wants to eat cakes that hard try, You just there eat yourself, weird.” The brother left the sister and continued his playing activities earlier. The little sister whose eyes were starting to glaze back home. He was sad often asked strangely by the brother even though this time he really just given a cake that looks delicious it from someone.

Arriving at home, their mother found her toddler crying. He guessed it was thanks to his son again. After seeing his mother, the girl ran over.

“Mother, bad sister,” is the. He hugged his mother who was drinking hot ginger water mixed with palm sugar in his home court.

“Why Dear?” ask the mother. The girl told her mother that. The mother smiled in response to the grievances of her cute child's heart.

“Yes already, later I make chocolate balls cake like this yes but soft and can be eaten the same Bubu,” comfort mom pinch gavel Bubu's nose, her second child.

At the same time, the mother had prepared the ingredients to make a cake requested by her son.

Brigadeiro Recipe (Gift, n.d.)

Material :

- 1 can of sweetened condensed milk

- 2 tbsp chocolate powder (cocoa powder). Dissolve with a little water.

- Messes enough

mini baking cup

Required tools :

- Wooden spoon

- Non-stick pan

How to make :

1.      Light a medium fire, melt 2 tbsp unsalted butter.

2.      Put sweetened condensed milk. Stir. Add the dissolved chocolate powder. Stir well. Continue to stir and cook the dough for approximately 20 minutes until the dough thickens. Characterized by dough that does not fall directly if spooned.

3.      Move the dough to a flat plate. Cool in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes until the dough is hardened and malleable.

4.      Cover your hands with a little butter. Take one small spoon of dough, round shape. Roll in chocolate mess, coat until flat. Serve in a beautiful mini baking cup. Cool before serving.

5.      After it is cold, then serve.

Triggs. Cake balls chocolate desire Bubu ready to eat. Bubu who helped mom make the cake and loved to round the dough was dirty with a sprinkling of messages around it. She was very happy when her mother said she would make a cake like the one she showed her sister but failed earlier.

“Taraa, done.” Mother served a basket of chocolate balls to the dinner table. Bubu was intending on his mother from behind.

“Please try Mr. Princess,” please mom on Bubu.

“Makasih Mommy, but Bubu wants to eat it later wait for brother. Mother do not eat first yes cake,” pinta Bubu prevents her mother to eat before her brother comes. Not long after, his brother came home from playing with his friends because it was getting late.

“I'm home,” he shouted from the back door. Hearing her brother's voice, Bubu ran over and pulled her brother to the dining table.

“Kakak, Bubu has a cake that can be eaten now, go to the dining table,” he said cheerfully. The Vedas drawn by his sister were astonished but still followed. Looking at the delicious-looking chocolate cake at the dinner table, he immediately washed his hands and took the cake.

“Well this new cake, Bubu.” The Vedas chew on their second cake. Bubu who was happy to see his brother so excited also eat the cake. I just smiled to see her two hearts happy. He put a hard object like a cake earlier on the study table his son thought it might be used for toys.

The day was getting late, the three people were already sleeping together. The Vedas wake up in the middle of the night wanting to go to the toilet. Finished from the toilet, he went to the kitchen to remember the delicious chocolate cake was still left. While eating the cake in silence, he thought why the chocolate cake that Bubu had brought was so hard.

“So it's shaped like this, but it's really hard.” The Vedas twirl the chocolate cake that sits on the clasp between their middle finger and thumb.

“Hm, this is soft,” he said while pressing the small cake, “try this cake is solidified and hardened, will be just like not ya like that?” ask in the heart.

Spring. Zutt's. “Eh!” Vedas throw cakes that should not have been round because he pressed it to the floor. “K-why is that?” his heart was racing grab a glance at the cake he threw. Just now the cake perfected its shape and texture exactly as the Vedas thought.

Realizing this, the Vedas were about to abandon the fallen cake. However, he stopped and took it because he did not want to make anyone know about the strange incident.

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