Samoa Tartlets - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter, or as needed
1 cup toasted shredded coconut, plus more for garnish
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons firmly packed light brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
5 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 quart coconut ice cream
3/4 cup warm dulce de leche

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups with 1 tablespoon butter.
Pulse 1/4 cup coconut, flour, brown sugar, and salt together in a food processor until just-combined. Add cold butter pieces to coconut mixture and pulse until mixture resembles wet sand. Spoon 1 heaping tablespoon of coconut mixture into each prepared muffin cup and press into cup to create a crust.
Bake in the preheated oven until crusts are golden, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from oven, turn off oven, sprinkle chopped chocolate into each crust, and return to the oven until chocolate melts, 3 to 5 minutes.
Divide remaining coconut between crusts. Freeze in the muffin cups until set, about 15 minutes. Gently remove each crust from the muffin cup with a thin spatula. Place a scoop of ice cream in each crust, drizzle dulce de leche over the top, and garnish with coconut.