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    Home » By Category » Desserts & Sweets » Desserts

    Published: Jan 26, 2012 · Modified: Dec 27, 2019 by Usha Rao

    Chocolate Canapes

    Today was a disastrous day in the kitchen. I had planned on making chocolate pizza for day 4 of the marathon. I bought pizza dough yesterday and I was all set to bake this afternoon. I made myself a veggie pizza for lunch with half of the dough and for my dessert, I planned chocolate pizza. Then a brilliant idea struck me. I thought I would make floral or round mini pizzas; cut them into mini floral or round bases and wouldn’t those be cute little bites? I pre-heated the oven, greased the pan, rolled the dough and pulled out the cookie cutters to cut the dough into bite size bases. As I cut the rolled dough into bite size pizzas and tried to place them on the pan, the shrunk (dough came together) and I had to re-shape them. They did not look pretty at all.. 🙁 I abandoned the mini pizzas idea and rolled the dough again. That is when the problem started. Since I used little flour to roll out the dough first time around, the dough was no longer loose and rubbery/spongy any more. I managed to make a rectangular base and baked the pizza base. It just did not look good and it went straight into the trash can.

    Chocolate Mela, Chocolate Canapes, Phyllo Shell Recipe, Blogging Marathon,

    I quickly thought of plan B, to make either chocolate pizza tart with pastry sheets or chocolate puffs. I decided to bake the latter. I thawed the sheets as per the instructions, preheated the oven, made the filling and started to work on the puff sheets. The sheet did look right, the color was a little different and it smelled a little weird. The sell by date was till March but for some reason, I could bake those sheets and those went straight into trash.

    It was past 3 pm and I did not have a recipe to post for the today! 🙁 As I was frantically looking into fridge, pantry and the freezer, I spotted my favorite mini phyllo shells in the freezer. I had other plans for these shells but it came to my rescue today in the form of chocolate canapés. These little bites are perfect for late night chocolate craving or for a quick dessert for a chocoholic. Chocolate and walnuts are baked for 8-10 minutes in the phyllo shells just until chocolate begins to melt and walnuts are lightly toasted. Those were very addictive, without even realizing, I finished off 6 shells clicking the pictures. And I did not even take that many pictures today, no natural light as it was cloudy most of the day and started raining by the time I was ready to take some pictures.

    Chocolate Mela, Blogging Marathon, Chocolate Canape

    Total Time: 15 - 20 minutes
    Preparation Time: 5 – 10 minutes
    Bake Time: 10 minutes
    Yields: 15

    Ingredients:

    • 1 Mini Phyllo Shell packet
    • ⅔ cup Milk Chocolate (approx. I used 1 cup and had some leftover after filling the canapes)
    • ⅙ cup chopped Walnuts (approx. I used ¼ and had some left over)

    Preparation:

    • Preheat the oven to 350 F.
    • Line a baking tray with a parchment paper or a baking sheet.
    • Mix chocolate chips & walnuts.
    • Place the mini shells in the tray.
    • Fill each shell with ½ - 1 tsp. of chocolate mixture.
    • Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. I baked for 10 minutes and shell was a little crispy but the chocolate was perfectly melted, just soft enough to melt in the mouth. To avoid very crisp shells, check 8 minutes into baking. That might be right time.

    Suggestions:

    • I used milk chocolate but semi sweet chocolate chips can also be used. However, I have not tried those.
    • Mini chips might also be a nice idea as the shells are mini.
    • Adding more nuts might also be a nice idea, making it more nutty.
    • Serve the canapes hot or warm. When the canapes cool, chocolate chips solidify and are not as soft as they were when warm.
    • To re-heat, bake in the oven for few minutes at 350 F

    Recipes posted this day, in 2011: Miryala Chaaru

    Event Entries: Sending these brownies to Srivalli's Chocolate Mela, Pradnya's Bake Fest # 3, an event started by Vardhini, Srav's Cooking Concepts # 6: Chocolate Fest and Ramya's ABC Series: Desserts.

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    1. Hema says

      January 29, 2012 at 11:42 pm

      Sorry to hear your story. But remember the saying "All is well that ends well" so you ended up with a great recipe.

      Reply
    2. Anzz says

      January 29, 2012 at 1:27 am

      Looks lovely ans so easy to prepare. ope you will send it for my first blog event too. Would be absolutely great..!

      Reply
    3. sravani says

      January 28, 2012 at 6:12 pm

      so cute and yummy !! very unique too!! thanks for linking to the event !!

      Ongoing Event - CC-Chocolate Fest

      Reply
    4. Rajani says

      January 28, 2012 at 12:41 pm

      Despite the disaster, something really awesome came out of the kitchen - right :)? These really look yum!

      Reply
    5. rekha says

      January 28, 2012 at 12:03 pm

      Nice idea they looks so cute and beautiful.

      Reply
    6. veena says

      January 28, 2012 at 10:00 am

      Wow!!!they look so inviting Usha

      Reply
    7. Ramya says

      January 27, 2012 at 11:27 am

      wow..they look so cute...thanks for linking with my event

      Reply
    8. Pradnya says

      January 27, 2012 at 5:09 am

      what a disaster ? This has yielded you very good fruits indeed, thanks for linking to the event

      Reply
    9. Priya says

      January 27, 2012 at 3:25 am

      Wow those canapes looks damn cute and quite addictive.

      Reply
    10. priya srinivasan says

      January 27, 2012 at 2:21 am

      Perfect Party-Pleasers, especially Kids!!!! They look cute n Lovely!!!!

      Reply
    11. vidhya says

      January 27, 2012 at 1:56 am

      Vey inviting dishes, looks yum!!1

      Reply
    12. Srivalli says

      January 27, 2012 at 1:38 am

      Seriously Usha, for the disasters you had, it surely turned out superb!..I pray you have more such incidents to come out with innovative and inviting dishes..:))..

      Reply
    13. Divya Vikram says

      January 27, 2012 at 1:08 am

      Such disasters do happen while baking 🙂 Part of cooking and blogging. These phyllo chocolate cups look pretty!

      Reply
    14. Kalyani says

      January 27, 2012 at 12:50 am

      surely ! these mini sized bites are worth all the effort Usha...

      Reply
    15. Gayathri Kumar says

      January 27, 2012 at 12:03 am

      Those shells look very cute...

      Reply
    16. Mireille says

      January 26, 2012 at 11:20 pm

      these are so adorable

      Reply
    17. Smitha says

      January 26, 2012 at 10:31 pm

      perfect bite sized dessert!....look fantastic!

      Reply
    18. Cool Lassie says

      January 26, 2012 at 10:24 pm

      Perfect bite-sized treats!

      Reply
    19. harini-jaya says

      January 26, 2012 at 8:56 pm

      The last minute effort is certainly worth it !!

      Reply
    20. nalini says

      January 26, 2012 at 8:26 pm

      Wow!!looks so gorgeous and sounds interesting...

      Reply

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