Double Chocolate Tartlets
Saturday, August 18, 2018
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Double Chocolate Tartlets
Perfect for sweet or meal, these tasteful Dual Potable Tartlets will bedazzle everyone who's lucky sufficiency to get a humour!
A drinkable dough remove filled with brownness ganache? Yes, this is one elegant cater. The layer is made with an egg which makes it many flexile and less fancy than your typical pastry. And the ganache filling is just paradisiacal. This recipe for someone beverage tartlets comes from the new reference from my healthy mortal, Jill Colonna, entitled Teatime in Town.
She's also the author of the unreal cookbook, Mad Roughly Macarons, that taught me how to straighten those iconic Gallic cookies. Between lovesome for her two lovely daughters and Country preserve, Jill also leads tours in Paris light brownness and macarons in St Germain-des-Prés. I was serendipitous enough to have up with her for a mini shift along with a sampling of blissful macarons, Carver pastries and hot brown. She was genuinely as delightful as I imagined! And she's one awful baker!
Ingredients
CHOCOLATE PASTRY CASES:
- 125g butter, at room temperature
- 75g icing sugar (confectioner’s sugar)
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- 240g plain flour all-purpose), sifted
- 20g unsweetened cocoa powder
- GANACHE FILLING:
- 160g dark chocolate (at least 60% solids)
- 80g milk chocolate
- 230g single cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
1. Using a stand mixer with a paddle beater, slowly mix the butter, sugar and salt until pale and creamy.
2. Just for a few seconds, gradually add the other ingredients until the dough is well mixed, then stop.
3. Form a ball, wrap in clingfilm and chill in the fridge for at least an hour. Cut out eight tartlets.
4. Bake the tartlets for 10–15 minutes at 160°C/320°F fan (Gas 4). Allow to cool, and remove from their molds.
5. To make the ganache filling, break the chocolate into chunks in a bowl. Heat the cream with the vanilla extract in a saucepan until nearly boiling. Pour over half of the hot cream directly into the bowl of chocolate.
6. Stir using a wooden spoon and combine until the ganache is smooth. Top with the rest of the hot cream and stir until completely melted and silky.
7. Pour the hot ganache into each tartlet and top with a cherry, berries or keep plain. Leave to chill in the fridge for at least an hour to set. Take the tartlets out of the fridge 30 minutes before eating.
