Chocolate Coconut Tropicana Pastries

These pastries are made in a contemporary style in which the sponge sheet used to line the sides of the molds is cut slightly shorter than the height of the finished pastries so a portion of the top layer of filling is exposed on the sides. Another example of this idea can be seen in Wine Foam and Blackberry Bavarian Greystone. For this design to work to its best advantage when two layers of filling are used, it is important that the filling used on the bottom (in this recipe, the chocolate