Chocolate Ganache Tarts
Author: Asha
Recipe type: Desserts
Cuisine: Global
Serves: 15
- Cooking Chocolate, 180 gms (broken into small pieces)
- Cream, ½ cup
- Butter, 4 tsps
- Flour, 250 gms
- Cold Butter, 120 gms
- Castor Sugar, 60 gms
- Egg,1
- Vanilla essence, ½ tsp
- Cold Water, 2 tbspns approx.
- Pinch of salt
- Pour the cream in a container and place it on medium flame.
- Once it starts boiling take it off the flame and add the cooking chocolate.
- Whisk it till the chocolate melts. (Alternately you can double boil it).
- Now add the butter and mix well.
- Your chocolate ganache filling is ready.
- Preheat the oven at 180C.
- Grease the tart moulds.
- Add the cold butter and flour in a container. Rub the cold butter into the flour till the whole mixture becomes crumbly.
- Add the remaining ingredients and knead well on a lightly floured work surface.
- Cover the dough with a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the tarts on a lightly floured work surface into a ⅛ inch thick sheet.
- Place the tart moulds on top of the rolled out dough. Press the mould on the dough and cut out small pastries.
- Line the tart moulds with these pastries.
- Prick the pastries with a fork so that it doesn’t rise during baking.
- Bake for 10-12 mins.
- Remove the tarts from the moulds and let it cool.
- Pour the chocolate filling into the tarts and refrigerate till set. Serve!
Recipe by Spice Counter at http://spicecounter.com/bakes/chocolate-tarts/
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