Cakes and Pastries Recipes - Chocolate and Chestnut Cream Tart Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 6:

• 8 1/2 oz sweetened pastry dough (refer recipe)

• 1 tbsp cocoa

•  2 tbsp confectioners' sugar

Chocolate ganache and chestnut cream:

• 3 1/3 oz cream

• 3 1/3 oz dark 70% chocolate

• 4 1/3 oz chestnut cream

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C.

2. Roll out the dough ad line a tart pan with it. Cover the base with baking paper and dried beans. Bake blind for 15 minutes. Turn out and cool.

3. Prepare the ganache: bring the cream to a boil. Drop the chocolate, broken into small chunks, into the cream. Stir. Fold 3/4 of this warm mixture into the chestnut cream

4. Fill the tart crust with the ganache. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

5. Spread the remaining ganache on the tart. Fashion the surface of the tart into spikes, using a spatula. Chill for another 15 minutes.

6. Before serving dust with cocoa and confectioners' sugar.