Cakes and Pastries Recipes - Chocolate and Spice Tart with Cinnamon Cream Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 4:

• 10 oz (280g) sweetened pastry dough (refer recipe)

• 1 1/4 cup cinnamon cream (refer recipe)

• Ground cinnamon

Spicy ganache:

• 3/4 cup cream

• 1 clove

• 1 cinnamon stick

• 1 pinch allspice

• Zest of 2 oranges

• 7 1/4 oz (200g) dark chocolate

• 2 oz (50g) butter

Chocolate glaze:

• 4 tbsp crème fraiche

• 1 tbsp sugar

• 2 oz (50g) chocolate

• 1/3 oz (10g) butter

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Method:

1. Prepare the ganache: heat the cream, spices, and orange zest. Allow it to steep, covered, for 20 min. Strain. Heat the cream to just below the boiling point and pour it little by little over the chocolate, broken into pieces. Mix and stir in the butter. Set aside.

2. Prepare the glaze: heat the crème fraiche and the sugar in a saucepan. Place the chocolate, broken into pieces, in this mixture. Mix well with a spatula and stir in the butter. Set aside.

3. Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C.

4. Roll out the dough and line a non-stick tart pan with it. Spoon in dried beans and bake blind for 10 min. Discard the beans. Bake for another 10 min.

5. Fill the tart crust with the ganache, smooth it out with the back of a spoon, and refrigerate for 30 min.

6. Coat the ganache with the chocolate glaze and smooth it out. Dot the center with knobs of cinnamon cream. Dust with cinnamon.