Monday, April 7, 2008

Tarte Au Chocolat

This post, like my previous, is grace a G junior. Both the recipe and the pretty visual are hers; and it comes to me directly from France!

Crust:
200 g four
100 g butter @room temperature
50 g sugar
Mix ingredients together until it gets crumbly (sand) texture. Add 1 Tbs of water to obtain dough. Leave in plastic film and keep for about 1 hr.
Roll pastry as thin as possible and put in a baking dish.
Make holes in the base of the paste with a fork.
Bake for about 15 minutes in an oven at 200 c.

Chocolate Mix:
200 g dark chocolate
200 ml of whipping cream
20 ml of milk
1 egg

Method:
Put whipping cream and milk in sauce and heat together until it starts to boil (little bubbles). Incorporate the chocolate cut into pieces to the cream and milk mixture. Mix until a perfectly smooth texture is obtained. Add 1egg and whisk energetically to obtain a smooth mix. Pour this chocolate mix into the precooked crust. Cook in an oven at 200 C for 10-20 minutes, depending on the size of the tart. Garnish with fresh strawberries.

I haven’t tried this recipe as yet. I’ve never made a pie crust from scratch actually; from what she says, it wasn’t that bad. We shall see, until then, Bon Appetite.