Ice Cream & Chocolate Puff Pastry Parcels

I enjoy a bit of a cooking challenge so when cool cookery set one which involved coming up with a dish that used only ingredients found in the freezer ailse of the supermarkets (plus maybe some condiments fround in your own store cupboard), I could not really refuse. Afterall, this is the type of thing I do on a daily basis when I am trying to think of food to feed my family with.

I decided to go with a dessert after browsing the freezer section of the supermarket at the weekend. I initially thought I would make a kind of fruit strudel using puff pastry, so I bought some ice cream, frozen fruits of the forrest and some puff pastry. However, when I got home and decided to make my pudding, I changed my mind and made some hot ice cream and chocolate spread parcels, which I served with a fruit puree. 

Serves 4

250g frozen puff pastry, defrosted

4 scoops of vanilla ice cream

4 dessert spoons of chocolate spread

icing sugar

1 handful of frozen fruits of the forrest, defrosted

1 tbsp icing sugar

sunflower or vegetable oil

Divide the puff pastry into 4 pieces and roll each piece out onto a board which has been dusted with icing sugar to make a square which is about 12 x 12 cm approx

Spread each pastry square with chocolate spread

Top with the ice cream

Fold in haf and crimp the sides together

Place on a icing sugar dusted plate and place back in the freezer for about 20 minutes or until you are ready to cook

When you are ready, heat enough oil in a deep pan to fry the parcles in 

When the oil is hot, carefully drop two parcels at a time into the oil and fry for a few minutes until the pastry turns golden brown (taking care not to split the pastry when removing as i did!), and then remove and serve.

I served my parcels with a fruity puree which I made by placing the defrosted fruit into my blender, added the icing sugar and blitzed until the fruit is smooth.

It tasted really nice -hot puff pastry with gooey chocolate sauce and ice cream which was still a little cool. It was just a shame I split the pastry parcels before I had a chance to break into them with my fork and spoon!

If you have a blog and fancy entering this challenge where you can win a Whirpool Freezer, please blog your recipe and then add the to www.coolcookery.co.uk somewhere within your post and make sure you tweet your entry to @cool_cookery

Good luck

I recieved a payment towards the frozen ingredients used within this post. The recipe is my own - I am sure a more professional cook would not have split the parcels!!