"It's (not) Complicated" Strawberry Chocolate Croissants

 Often when watching movies filled with delicious food, I find myself inspired to copy their creations in my not so movie star life. Recently when watching two middle-aged adults with the munchies make chocolate croissants in "It's Complicated", inspiration hit! However, I can never leave things alone and have to make it my own, hence various changes to the delectable occurred.

                  Easy As Pie! First things first, grab some croissant rolls dough from your local grocery fridge section, strawberries, Hershey's dark chocolate bars, almond slivers, unsalted butter, salt, flour, sugar, and nutmeg. If you want you can buy frozen phillo dough for the triangles, but I find it easier to unroll the pre-made Pillsbury ones. Pre-heat oven to what the croissant roll package tells you, probably will say about 375 degrees. Mix together the sugar, salt, flour, nutmeg, and some butter, to make the streusel mixture that will go inside. Set that aside and melt the chocolate down in a bowl. The microwave is an easy way to do this just make sure not to burn it. If you put it in for 30 seconds at a time and then take it out and stir it the mix will hold up better against burns. While this happens cut the strawberries into thin slices that will fit inside the rolls. Set those aside, along with the melted chocolate, and melt a Tbl of butter in a bowl (this will be brushed over the tops). 

 Next on a flat, floured surface unroll the dough into triangles. Start by spooning in chocolate at the wide part of the triangle, then put two-four slices of strawberries on top, followed by a sprinkling of streusel mix, and a few slivers of almonds. Your filling is now done. Starting at the filled end roll the dough up in to a croissant.   

Make sure the filling is not spilling out of the sides. If it is you are putting too much inside and will not have those aesthetically pleasing treats that match their taste in beauty. Fold the ends into a crescent shape and place on a greased pan. Brush the tops of the croissants with the butter and pop in the oven for about 12 minutes ( should adjust baking time according to package of the dough). 

 Kick back and watch them bake, but not burn (yes that burnt to a crisp look that looks awful on over tanned Jersey Shore house mates looks bad on desserts too). When they come out of the oven you can take a spoon full of left-over chocolate and drizzle it on top for extra added decadence.     

                                      

Now Enjoy! A mastery of chocolate goodness to take you to the movies or to a blissful sugar comma.

Ingredients: 

3 tbsp sugar 

3 tbsp flour

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/8 tsp salt 

2 tbsp butter (plus another tbsp for melting and brushing on top) 

16 croissant rolls 

8 miniture bars of dark chocolate Hershey's chocolate (about 4 oz of chocolate  total)

1 small package of almond slivers 

1 pack of strawberries ( you will probably only use about 8 strawberries)  

Instructions above!