Easy Appetizer Recipes
Appetizing Dessert Nachos with Chocolate
These nacho stacks with Mexican sweet pecans are great at any party and kids especially love them. Appetizers can be sweet or savory and popular sweet appetizers are made with fruit, preserves, or other sweet ingredients. These appetizers can also be served as a dessert but they are ideal for people with a sweet tooth. It is nice to have the option of something sweet anyway.
This is a great recipe to have on standby because it can work as a dessert or as an extra appetizer if you run out of them. You can use Mexican chocolate in this dessert nachos recipe for extra authenticity but unsweetened chocolate is fine, especially since Mexican chocolate is not available everywhere. Mexican chocolate is not as sweet as other kinds of chocolate and it often contains cinnamon.
Maybe you were wondering which easy party appetizers to make for your party and you had not considered having sweet appetizers as well as savory ones. A lot of people like to make shrimp appetizers, seafood appetizers, various dip recipe and other holiday appetizer recipes but do not rule out the option of making something sweet. You might be surprised just how popular these tasty dessert nachos are.
Tortilla Stack with Mexican Sweet Pecans
Ingredients -
7 tablespoons melted butter
½ cup heavy whipping cream
6 flour tortillas, 8 inches across
½ cup pecans
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 oz unsweetened chocolate
½ teaspoon cinnamon
⅓ cup brown sugar
6 tablespoons white sugar
Preparation:
Break the chocolate into pieces and chop the pecans.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Brush 4 tablespoons of the melted butter over the tortillas.
Mix 2 tablespoons of the white sugar with the cinnamon and put this powder in a salt shaker. Shake it over the buttered side of each tortilla.
Stack the tortillas on top of one another with the cinnamon sugar side up.
Cut them into wedges and layer the wedges on an ungreased cookie sheet in one layer. Bake until crispy.
This takes about 10 minutes. Set the tortillas to one side to cool.
Whisk the rest of the white sugar, cream, brown sugar and the rest of the butter in a pan over a medium heat and bring it to a boil, stirring all the time.
Keep cooking until thicker.
This takes about 5 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla and chocolate.
Keep stirring until the mixture is smooth and the chocolate has melted.
Let it cool a bit. Arrange half the tortillas wedges on a serving plate and pour half the chocolate mixture over the top.
Sprinkle half the pecans over the top, and then repeat these layers.
These dessert nachos are perfect for any children at the party because a lot of the other appetizers might be too spicy or rich for them.
(Serves 12)
