Chocolate Coconut Phyllo Triangles

Submitted by Diana Adcock

"Here's a yummy dessert to serve with ice cream or dusted with powdered sugar!"

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 8 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares
• 1⁄2 cup shredded coconut
• 2⁄3 cup sliced almonds or 2/3 cup slivered almonds
• 1⁄2 cup room temp butter
• 12 sheets phyllo pastry sheets
• 1⁄3 cup oil

directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. In a food processor add the chocolate, coconut, almonds and butter.
3. Process until smooth.
4. Place one sheet of dough on the counter and brush with oil.
5. Place another sheet on top and cut lengthwise into 4 long equal strips.
6. Spoon 1 tbsp of the chocolate nut mixture onto the end of one strip and fold flag style into a triangular shape.
7. Place on a baking sheet and repeat using the remainder of the phyllo sheets and chocolate mixture.
8. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
9. Cool slightly and serve with ice cream or cool completely.

Reviews

[mamazee]

I am "cooking out of my pantry" this week, while we get ready for a trip with the family... i had a package of phyllo dough in the freezer and thought i'd make a dessert... i was all out of coconut? but i chopped up some almonds - i only had one baking square of unsweetened chocolate so i subbed 3 T cocoa powder and 1 T melted butter for each of the other squares - and mixed in a good dollop of sugar :) - they turned out really really good... a little adult i thought since the chocolate wasn't as sweet as it could have been, but my children gobbled them up and my husband loved them. I dusted them all with powdered sugar and they were a sweet treat :)

 

[Debbb]

Very good! I served these pastry triangles with butterscotch ripple ice-cream & whipped cream for Easter dessert - very rich. Everyone loved them! This was my first attempt at phyllo so they weren't the prettiest triangles to look at but I still managed to impress my family.