For Valentine's Day Chocolate Tart.
Ingredients of For Valentine's Day Chocolate Tart
- You need of Tart pastry.
- You need 50 grams of Unsalted butter.
- Prepare 30 grams of Powdered sugar.
- It’s 1 pinch of Salt.
- Prepare 1 of Egg yolk.
- Prepare 110 grams of Cake flour.
- It’s of Filling.
- You need 30 grams of Milk chocolate (I used Meiji milk chocolate).
- Prepare 20 grams of Unsalted butter.
- Prepare 1 of Egg yolk.
- Prepare 1 of Egg white.
- It’s 30 grams of Sugar.
- You need 10 grams of Cocoa powder.
- Prepare of Decoration.
- You need 150 ml of Heavy cream.
- Prepare 50 grams of Milk chocolate (I used Meiji milk chocolate).
- You need 1 of Fruits of your choice.
For Valentine's Day Chocolate Tart instructions
- Tart pastry: Bring butter to room temperature. Sift the flour..
- Put the butter into a bowl and cream until soft. Add salt and powdered sugar and mix until light and fluffy..
- Add the egg yolk and mix well..
- Add cake flour, fold lightly in a cutting motion with a scraper and bring it together. Wrap with plastic wrap and rest it in the fridge for 2 hours..
- Sandwich the dough in two sheets of cling film, roll out to 3 mm thickness. Press into a tart pan. Cut off the excess dough and pierce with a fork..
- Rest for 30 minutes in the fridge. Preheat the oven to 180℃ and bake for 10 minutes..
- Filling: Chop the chocolate finely. Combine with the butter and melt in a double broiler..
- Add egg yolk, then the sifted cocoa powder and mix well between every addition. Leave the bowl in hot water..
- Put the egg white in another bowl, add the sugar in 3 batches while mixing well and make a stiff meringue..
- Add the meringue into the chocolate mixture in 3 batches and mix well. Stir well with a whisk when you add the first portion of meringue. Mix well with a rubber spatula to break air bubbles when you add the 2nd and 3rd portions of meringue..
- Pour the filling mixture into Step 6 (about 80% full), bake in a preheated oven at 180℃ for 12~15 minutes..
- Done. It's puffed up when it's just baked, but flattens when cooled..
- Make the ganache cream. Chop the chocolate finely and melt in a double boiler..
- Heat heavy cream until it's nearly boiling and add to the bowl of melted chocolate. Put it over a bowl with ice water and whip until stiff peaks form..
- When the tart is completely cool, decorate with the ganache cream and fruit..
- You can make miniature tarts and they're cute too..