Chocolate Calzone

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 lb pizza dough, premade at your grocery store
• 2 (15 ounce) cartons whole milk ricotta cheese
• 2 cups superfine sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup bittersweet chocolate, melted in microwave (or use double boiler)
• 3/4 cup bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 egg whites, beaten until frothy

Recipe

• 1 preheat pizza stone in 450 degree oven for at least 30 minutes.
• 2 or use a flat sided or upside down cookie sheet.
• 3 place ricotta in a bowl, add one hand full of sugar and the vanilla and whisk well.
• 4 add in the melted chocolate, little by little.
• 5 on a lightly floured peel or board, roll pizza dough out into two (2) 12" rounds about 1/4 thick.
• 6 spoon 1 cup of chocolate filling into center of each round.
• 7 place the remaining chopped chocolate on top.
• 8 brush to the edges of the dough with beaten egg and fold each round in 1/2.
• 9 fold edges over as you would a pie crust and press to seal completely.
• 10 brush off excess flour from dough and brush with more egg and sprinkle with sugar.
• 11 slide chocolate calzone onto preheated pizza stone or cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.