Description
Recipes for mini chocolate tarts with homemade shortcrust pastry (pate sablée) and chocolate ganache filling, decorated with whipped cream and chocolate curls (for about 6-8 tarts)
Ingredients
Sweet Shortcrust pastry
- 250 g (2 cups) Flour - All-purpose
- 90 g (3/4 cup) Powdered sugar
- 50 g ( 1/2 cup) Almond flour
- 1 pinch of salt
- 150 g (2/3 cup) Butter - unsalted cold
- 1 Egg - large
Chocolate ganache
- 200 g (7 oz/1 1/4 cups) Baking Chocolate - semi-sweet or bittersweet
- 300 ml (1 1/4 cups) Heavy cream - Full fat
- 1 pinch Sea salt - optional
Whipped Cream topping
- 1 cup heavy cream - full-fat and cold
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar
Chocolate curls
Follow my recipe for chocolate curls
Instructions
Sweet shortcrust pastry dough
- In a large container, place the flour, powdered sugar, almond flour, pinch of salt and mix with a tablespoon.
- Add the cold unsalted butter pieces and crumble it with your fingertips into the dry mixture until you have a sandy, lump-free mixture.
- Then add the egg and mix gently and just enough to gather the dough into a homogeneous ball without kneading it too much.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface or between 2 sheets of parchment paper to a thickness of 3-4 mm.
- Line the tartlet rings or mini tartlet pans with the dough and place them in the freezer for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 347°F / 175°C and bake the tartlets for about 25 minutes until golden brown.
- Let the tartlets cool completely before removing from the pan.
Chocolate Ganache
- Chop the dark chocolate with a knife and place in a large container.
- Heat the heavy cream in a saucepan over medium heat until it simmers.
- Pour the hot cream into the chocolate and sea salt at once and let it sit for a while.
- Mix the mixture with a spatula or hand whisk until the chocolate is completely melted.
- Blend the ganache with an immersion blender to smooth it out, avoiding incorporating too much air.
- Let the ganache stand at room temperature for 5 minutes, then fill the tartlets until they are completely filled.
- Place the chocolate tarts in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour and until the chocolate is firm.
Decoration
- In a large bowl, whip the cream with the powdered sugar for around 2 minutes until it forms a chantilly.
- Decorate the tops of the chocolate tarts with a little whipped cream and add the cocolate curls.
Notes
Storage: up to 5 days in the refrigerator and up to 3 months in the freezer.
- Add a layer of salted butter caramel before drizzling the chocolate ganache.
- Add pieces of fruit between the dough and the ganache, such as banana slices, strawberries or raspberries.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Tarts, tartlets
- Cuisine: French