Week 1- Chocolate Phyllo Pockets

Hi, I'm Alexis. I am starting this new thing where I bake something new once a week for the next year. Why am I doing this? It's because I simply love to bake, and I need something in my life where I can control happily and enjoy. So, I started two days ago, Monday. I made my first dessert- Chocolate Phyllo Pockets. By the way, I don't make the recipe, I copy them from wherever I can find them (magazines, cookbooks, online, etc.) Sorry if I 'copy' a recipe of yours. Be flattered :) ! Anyways, I will also be making a short video of the baking process, for my own good (and anyone else who is interested). I'm not sure how to post videos, so I'll lay that off for a while. But let me tell you about my pockets.

First of all, the recipe I used calls for like this big ole bowl of butter so you can brush the pockets, I didn't use nearly half of it. So you just need a little bit (not 6 tbsp). Also, it was the perfect amt. of nutella-choc mix. The phyllo, as I heard before, was in fact kind of ahrd to work with because it is so thin, and it dries easily. So work fast! Maybe add a couple more layers of phyllo on each pocket, or at least a whole one. The end result was what it looks like, it tastes like. A little plain, the poundcake part that is. My suggestion for the next time I do this recipe-- add something in it. Maybe cut up fruit (ex. strawberries, bananas, apples, etc.), chocolate chips or other kinds of chips, or even some kind of cream in the middle (bavarian?). Makes about 12 pockets, and 210 cals per pocket (calories differ with different types of poundcake and chocolate and other things. You can always ask me what calories are in something, I'll always have an answer [eventually]). Thanks for reading! This is my first blog type of thing, so I appreciate anyone who is interested :) !


Ingrediants:
-5 oz semisweeet chocolate
-1/2 cup nutella
-1 box betty crocker poundcake (made already)
-6 tbsp butter (probably more like 3)
-4 sheets phyllo dough (I used like 7)
-2 tbsp conf. sugar
-optional: raspberries for decoration.