Chocolate tartlets with praline spread and ganache
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Read about pastry-shop tarts in the BrightCulinary Book
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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
- butter
- powdered sugar
- almond meal
- salt
In the food processor, smooth the butter with the powdered sugar, almond meal and salt.
Making the chocolate crust
- egg
- vanilla
- flour
- cocoa powder
Add the egg, vanilla, flour and cocoa powder and process to a chocolate crust dough.
Shape half the pastry into a log and roll it between a baking mat and parchment paper into a thin rectangle 2 millimetres thick; freeze. Repeat with the rest.
- hazelnuts
- almonds
- sugar
Toast the hazelnuts and almonds; meanwhile cook sugar into caramel. When set and cool, break the caramel into pieces.
Process the toasted nuts, adding the caramel, and run for quite a while until it turns into a paste.
Cut one frozen pastry sheet into strips slightly taller than the tart ring; refreeze. Cut the other sheet into 8 centimetre (3 1/4 inch) discs; keep all cuts frozen.
Lining the tart rings
Line six tart rings with a frozen disc and a strip each, taking strips from the freezer one at a time and refreezing any that go too soft.
Freeze the shells 20 minutes, trim off excess pastry, and freeze again until ready to bake.
- 1 parts heavy cream
- 1 parts chocolate
Blind bake 30 minutes: 20 minutes with pie weights and 10 minutes more without.
Bring the heavy cream and honey to a boil; pour half over the chocolate, wait about a minute, and stir until incorporated.
The ganache
- honey
- butter
Add the remaining cream, stir, add the butter, and blend in a narrow container with an immersion blender to emulsify.
- 1 tbsp hazelnut spread
- cocoa nibs
Put about a tablespoon of hazelnut spread in each tartlet, fill with ganache, and garnish with a little lightly toasted cocoa nibs.
Filling and garnishing