Swan Terrace Chocolate Beggar's Purses With Raspberries

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 8 sheets phyllo dough
• 1/2 lb butter, melted
• 1/2 lb ganache or 4 chocolate truffles
• chocolate cake, four circles 2 inches in diameter (from recipe of your choice)
• 4 teaspoons grand marnier
• 2 pints raspberries
• 8 ounces good quality vanilla ice cream (4 small scoops)
• chocolate sprinkles, for garnish
• 4 ounces chocolate syrup
• 4 mint sprigs, for garnish
• powdered sugar, for garnish

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 450°f.
• 2 brush filo sheets with melted butter, repeat until you have 2 stacks, each one with 4 sheets of buttered filo dough.
• 3 cut each stack in half so you now have 4 stacks.
• 4 place a piece of chocolate cake sprinkled with grand marnier in the center of each stack.
• 5 place a ganache ball on top of each cake circle.
• 6 next, divide one pint of raspberries on top of the four ganache balls.
• 7 wrap each one in the filo dough so that it looks like a pouch-type purse, and brush the outsides with the remaining melted butter.
• 8 bake for 5 minutes.
• 9 present on individual plates garnished with the remaining raspberries, ice cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate decoration, mint sprigs and powdered sugar.
• 10 serve at once.