Taco Cookies With Fresh Fruit

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 3 cups fresh fruit, cut up (such as kiwi, strawberries, bananas, star fruit)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup whipping cream (or heavy cream)
• 3 (6 ounce) bars semisweet baking chocolate, broken up
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 325.
• 2 for the tacos; grease and flour three large cookie sheets.
• 3 cover the bakc spines of two 5/8 inch-thick books with foil. stand each book, spine up, between two additional books.
• 4 in large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, butter, water, eggs and vanilla. beat until smooth. gradually beat in flour and cocoa.
• 5 spoon 2 measuring tablespoons batter for each taco onto prepared cookie sheets, making 3-4 tacos per sheet. spread batter into 4-inch circles.
• 6 bake 15 minutes. immediately remove tacos from cookie sheets; drape two tacos, side by side, over each prepared book. press gently to fold.
• 7 cool; remove from books. repeat with remaining batter.
• 8 for filling; combine fruit and sugar. in a small bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form.
• 9 for chocolate sauce; in a small saucepan over low heat, melt semi-sweet chocolate with butter and milk, stirring constantly until smooth.
• 10 fill each taco with whipped cream and 1/4 cup fruit. top with chocolate sauce.