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I don’t do desserts here often, and when I do, they aren’t overly complicated or include a gazillion of intricate steps. It’s not because I don’t like baking, because I do, it’s just when given the choice of sweet or savory, I’m going with savory nine times out of ten.
Because I am more of a savory gal, my dessert choices are all over the board. Some days the only thing I crave is a piece of dark chocolate, other days I can’t stop thinking about a warm apple crisp with obscene amounts of crumbly topping. And call me crazy, but some days, I don’t want dessert at all and would much rather have another serving of pasta or glass of red wine.
Every once in a while I’ll get inspired and come up with a brilliant dessert idea like this Pumpkin Coconut Cream Pie with Chocolate Ganache or this Brown Butter Pear Upside Down Cake, but most of the time my sweet thoughts manifest themselves in desserts like these phyllo pockets. Simple, but not boring. Sweet, but not overly sweet.
Loaded with Nutella, peanut butter and marshmallows, these are kind of a grown up take on a s’more, but better. The peanut butter and nutella get all melty and warm inside the crisp phyllo dough, and the marshmallows ooze out the sides just touch, creating that toasted marshmallow flavor we all love. Even though I had originally planned for these to be semi mess-free, do not eat one over your couch, or your floor or your dog, little phyllo pieces will go flying everywhere and you’ll have a big fat paper-like mess on your hand – although it’ll be worth it.
I would also classify these as easy, but that comes with a disclosure – phyllo dough can be tricky to handle. The key is to move quickly so the dough doesn’t dry out, and only use what you need, keep the rest of the dough covered until it’s ready to be used.. Now, I don’t usually have too much trouble with it, but this time I was a little bit impatient when it came time for the phyllo to defrost, which apparently takes five hours – ummm yeah I don’t have that kind of time. Long story short, I tried to speed up the process, it failed and ended up causing the sheets to stick together and break into pieces. Luckily, broken phyllo is easily fixed with a little bit of melted butter. But for your sanity, may I suggest you plan ahead and pull the dough out in plenty of time to defrost naturally.
You can make these two different ways, the first way is to wrap everything up similar to a spanakopita. Familiar? If not, that’s ok, what you do is place the filling at the bottom of your phyllo strips, fold over to form a triangle and keep folding until it’s completely wrapped up. Not sure if you can picture that or not, so here’s a good tutorial. The second method is to take two strips of dough and place the filling in the middle of two strips of dough and fold over the sides. I’d actually lean towards the spanakopita route, because the filling stays put a little bit better than it does in the method I have shown here.
I served them with a sprinkle of powdered sugar and simple dipping sauce of more Nutella mixed with a little milk to loosen it up.
Now this is my kind of dessert.
- Phyllo Dough (6 sheets for pockets and 4 sheets for triangles)
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 8 teaspoons Nutella
- 4 teaspoons peanut butter
- 32 mini marshmallows
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- When working with the phyllo keep plastic wrap over the dough, covered with a damp towel until ready to work, do not leave the dough out longer than a few minutes or it will dry out.
- Cut sheets into four even strips vertically. Place three strips on top of each other and brush with melted butter.
- Place one teaspoon of Nutella, half a teaspoons of peanut butter and four mini marshmallows at the bottom of the sheet.
- Fold corner over diagonally into a triangle. Keep folding until completely wrapped and there is one neat triangle. Brush with butter and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
- Cut sheets into six even strips vertically. Place two strips of phyllo on top of each other. Do the same for two more strips. Place the two stacked strips in a plus sign so that the middle of both strips overlap. Brush with melted butter.
- Place one teaspoon of Nutella and ½ teaspoon of peanut butter in the middle, along with four marshmallows. Fold sides on top of filling overlapping, brushing with butter as needed to keep the dough from breaking. Once all sides are completely overlapped, fold the remaining dough under the square.
- Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
- Place on greased baking sheet, and baked until golden brown and crispy, about ten minutes.
- While the pockets are baking, place ¼ cup Nutella in a small dish, add one teaspoon of milk until desired dipping consistency is reached.
- Serve warm pockets with Nutella.
Chris @ Shared Appetite says
These sound absolutely amazing! Little pockets of sweet deliciousness! I don’t think I’ve ever worked with phyllo dough before… will totally have to try this!
Ashley says
I’ve never used phyllo dough – but I kinda feel like I need to now so I can try these babies out! I also haven’t had nutella in probably a year (crazy I tell you!) …. time to correct that mistake : )
Karen (Back Road Journal) says
These little pockets of goodness sound irresistible. 🙂
Karen @ The Food Charlatan says
I need more phyllo in my life. Starting now.
Usually I’m all about the sugar, but tonight you’re speaking to my soul. I had an awesome dinner tonight that is sadly gone. An entire pan of snickers brownies in the kitchen and all I want are more oven roasted potatoes.
Julie @ This Gal Cooks says
You know, I’m more of a savory gal as well. I think my desserts are all over the place too! These look so good. What a great idea for a sweet treat. And so easy to make. Pinned!
Nicole says
Thanks Julie!!
Martha A. Cheves says
I have the dough in my freezer, bad weather coming and plenty of time to give these a try. Look so good!
Nicole says
Thanks Martha! Let me know if you make them!
Christin@SpicySouthernKitchen says
These pockets look amazing! So flaky. I can never resist Nutella! This is my kind of Valentine’s Day treat 🙂
Nicole says
So flaky!!! And so easy too! Thanks Christin!
Danielle @ TheCharmItSpot says
These look so good! Thanks for sharing, I love Nutella!
Nicole says
Thanks Danielle!!!
Jocelyn says
Can you freeze these