A fine dessert doesnt always have to be elaborate, or even pretend to be.
Theres something a bit fancy about a sweet that owns its simplicity, and parades around in its thrown-togetherness.
Treat yourself to buttery cinnamon phyllo chips, and revel in its fancy simplicity.
These phyllo chips are assembled within minutes and cooked with similar swiftness.
However, if you prefer instructions, proceed as follows.
Mix a spoonful of white sugar together with 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
Lay out one sheet of thawed phyllo dough and brush the entire side with a thin coating of butter.
Fold the phyllo in half, or in a letter-fold (in thirds).
Butter the side of the dough facing up, sprinkle with more cinnamon sugar and fold it in half.
Theres no need to be perfect.
In fact, phyllo dries so quickly, youll almost certainly have lovely irregularities in your butter parcel.
Butter the top, and scatter a final dose of cinnamon sugar onto it.
Cool the phyllo chips on a wire rack for a few minutes before cracking into them.
Its like a featherweight, cinnamon flavored funnel cake.
These chips are a perfect light dessert for when you want something sweet but arent all that hungry.
Basically, theyre the dough equivalent of popcorn; they look substantial, but dissolve on the tongue.
Substitute the cinnamon for cardamom, cocoa powder, zaatar, or lemon zest.
Top them with powdered sugar if you want a heavenly state fair kind of feeling.
Crunch on these in their messy simplicity, or tuck one into pudding or a bowl of whipped cream.
Roughly crumble a phyllo chip over ice cream for a wonderfully wispy, crisp garnish.
Mix the cinnamon and sugar together in a small bowl.
Lay out one sheet of phyllo dough and butter the surface.
Sprinkle the buttered surface with the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Fold the dough in half or in thirds.
Butter the side facing up.
Sprinkle that side with more cinnamon sugar.
Fold it in half.
Butter the new side facing up and sprinkle that with sugar.
Repeat with the other sheet of phyllo dough.
Put these in the air fryer, buttered-side up.
Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until evenly browned and crisp.
