Dee's Chocolate Taco

Recipe Rating:	23 Ratings5
Categories:	Chocolate, Other Desserts, For Kids
Collections:	Terrific Toppings, 2012 Member's Choice
Keywords:	taco, DESERT, valentines
Prep Time:	1 Hr
Cook Time:	5 Min

Ingredients

1 pkg	prepared taco shells
1 pkg	16 oz semi sweet chocolate chips
1	8oz package cream cheese softened
1	8oz package cool whip or canned spray whipped cream
1 c	powdered sugar
1 can(s)	favorite pie filling (blueberry my fav,cherry etc)
1 jar(s)	chocolate syrup
1 Tbsp	paraffin wax

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Edie Ogborn

Lightly Salted

Bak, CA

Kcsnaunnie

Member Since Aug 2011

Edie's Notes:

I came up with this recipe 21yrs ago, a few yrs before my daughter went to Arizona to become a surgical tech. She called me one day saying, "Mom they have Choco Toco's here!" She was so excited.

My recipe is quite different and my family loves it for a special day. It has a great presentation. At our restaurant it was a dessert people loved to get for a newbie, knowing it was a special dish they had never had.

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

We used cherry pie filling when preparing these in the Test Kitchen, but fresh fruit like peaches or pineapple would also be wonderful! Yum!!

Directions

Get all ingredients and utensils together. That way you don't forget something. I always have my grandkids read over instructions first.

In a double boiler combine chocolate chips and paraffin wax. Heat until smooth and melted. I use a one-inch new paint brush to "paint" taco shells inside and outside with chocolate. Set them upside down on wax paper that has been placed on a cookie sheet. Place them in refrigerator until the filling is ready.

Filling: Mix softened cream cheese and powdered sugar until creamy. (You may need a Tbs or two of milk if too stiff). Fold in 1/2 of whipped topping (or 1c whipped cream).

Put cream cheese filling in a frosting bag (or you can spoon it into shells.) Put about 3 Tbs in a chocolate shell, add 2-3 Tbs of your favorite pie filling on top of cream cheese filling, add a dollop of whipped cream, then a cherry or a dollop more of your favorite filling. Drizzle with a chocolate syrup over top.

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Edie Ogborn Kcsnaunnie

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I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!

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deb baldwin messinthekitchen

Mar 9, 2012

Congratulations Edie, on your first blue ribbon!

Edie Ogborn Kcsnaunnie

Mar 10, 2012

Thank you it means a lot to me.! I see you have one of your own. Congrats to you also.Have you tried the taco's? They really are too good.
I was once married to a Baldwin. lol

Edie Ogborn Kcsnaunnie

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deb baldwin messinthekitchen

Mar 12, 2012

Edie, I have not tried your tacos yet..I do not know how my husband would like it. (He does not like mexican food) LOL.
There are lots of Baldwins..I do not know of to many far off relatives, they mostly live around here.

deb baldwin messinthekitchen

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Cat Ireland GyrlSmylee

Mar 13, 2012

Hi Deb, My hubby is the same way, you should make these for him anyway, because they aren't Mexican food, we can tell them it's dessert. ;) Edi, these are an original dessert, and they look great! I will make these.

Cherie Pickett Cherie3340

Mar 13, 2012

Congratulation on the blue ribbon... this looks like a must try and I will....

deb baldwin messinthekitchen

Mar 13, 2012

I think is I served him chocolate covered taco shells, he would think I was out of my mind.LOL I am the chocolate lover(I would eat every one!)
The cherries put this it over the top!