Chocolate Beggar’s Purse

"This is a fancy Greek dessert simplified. Inside a flaky pastry is a brownie topped with peanut butter and chocolate. The name comes from it looking like an empty purse. I serve these at dinner parties, and people are always impressed."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 15mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
8
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ingredients

  • 1 (19 1/2 ounce) fudge brownie mix
  • 12 cup oil
  • 14 cup water
  • 1 egg
  • 2 (8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
  • 12 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 2 12 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 cup chocolate fudge frosting
  • Garnish

  • vanilla ice cream
  • chocolate syrup, for serving
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directions

  • Coat bottom and sides of 9x9-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Combine brownie mix, oil, water and eggs. Beat 50 strokes. Bake according to directions on box, 350 for 30 minutes. Cool. Cut into 8 squares.
  • On a lightly greased baking sheet, separate dough into 8 rectangles. Firmly press perforations to seal. Place one brownie in the center of each rectangle.
  • Stir peanut butter and sugar in small bowl to blend.
  • Top brownies with 1 heaping tablespoon chocolate frosting and 1 tablespoon peanut butter mixture.
  • Pull four corners of dough to center of chocolate mixture. Twist firmly to form top of purse.
  • Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly golden. Let cool at least 15 minutes before serving, but serve slightly warm.
  • When serving, cut each “purse” in half, displaying the inside. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and drizzle with chocolate syrup.

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I'm a stay-at-home mother who loves to cook. I try to stay pretty active -- especially since I have 2 young boys and a baby girl. I love using my church's monthly pot-luck lunch as a testing ground for new recipes. I love American Test Kitchen's, Weight Watchers, Cooking Light, & Prevention cookbooks. I have an enormous pile of recipes from magazines I want to try someday.
 
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