Chocolate Tart
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Serves: 1 pie
 
Ingredients
  • Ingredients:
  • **For the pastry**
  • 250g Plain flour, plus extra for dusting and rolling
  • Pinch Salt
  • 125g ice cold butter (as cold as you can)
  • 3 free-range egg yolks (the whites are not needed)
  • 125g Caster Sugar
  • **For the filling**
  • 400ml Double Cream
  • Few drops Vanilla Extract
  • 100g Caster Sugar
  • 400g Dark Chocolate, minimum 70% cocoa solids, cut into pieces
  • 50g Butter, cubed
  • **For the White Chocolate Drizzle**
  • 100ml Single Cream
  • Few drops Vanilla Extract
  • 100g White Chocolate, cut into pieces
  • Cacoa Nibs (optional, to garnish)
  • To serve: Raspberries and ice cream, both optional, this tart is great on its own.
Instructions
  1. **For the Pastry*
  2. Place the flour, salt and butter into a large bowl and rub in the butter until it resembles breadcrumbs (this can be done in a food processor by pulsing, if you have one).
  3. Add the egg yolks and the sugar and (pulse if using processor) use a spatula to mix until it comes together and forms a dough. You may need a splash of ice cold water here if it's too dry.
  4. Place the ball of dough in the fridge, wrapped in cling film, for 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat the oven to 200°C(180°C fan assisted) whilst the dough chills.
  6. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out until it'll fit into a 25cm fluted pie tin.
  7. Cover with greaseproof paper and fill with baking beans (I use rice).
  8. Place in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove the paper and rice and bake for a further 5 minutes until it has lightly browned.
  9. **For the filling**
  10. Bring the cream, sugar and vanilla to the boil slowly over a medium to low heat. Stirring so it doesn't catch.
  11. Place the chocolate and the butter into a large bowl and pour the boiling cream mixture over them.
  12. Mix well until the chocolate and butter have completely melted and the mixture is smooth.
  13. Pour into the pastry case and smooth out the top.
  14. Place in the fridge for two hours until set.
  15. Towards the end of the chilling, make the white chocolate drizzle. Do this in a similar manner to the chocolate filling but minus the sugar.
  16. Use a spoon to drizzle this over the top. You'll likely have some left over, but hey... you've got a spoon, right?
  17. Place back in the fridge for 20 minutes until the top layer has set.
  18. Garnish and serve with ice cream and fresh fruit.
Recipe by The Bearded Bakery at http://www.thebeardedbakery.com/baking/pastry/pies/chocolate-tart/