Salted Licorice Brigadeiros

I prepared these as an additional dessert for the holidays, selected mostly because it looked easy and odd. Happily they turned out to be delicious, too. You need a strong food processor, by 25+ yr old food processor nearly croaked trying to pulverize soft black licorice, and I felt that I was failing when trying to melt the small fragments on my cooktop. But the recipe said to not worry, so I didn't, and the end result was quite good. The licorice is mixed first with sweetened condensed milk, and then with unsweetened chocolate. After refrigeration, balls are formed and then rolled in chocolate sprinkles, and flaky sea salt applied. The end result is an interesting combination of licorice and chocolate.

Be sure to try it unsalted before you salt all of them. The salt brings out the licorice flavor, and you might like them better without.