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Dark chocolate and almond tarts |

Brunch, Vegetarian, Sweet, Chocolate, Cream, Biscuit Dough

Tarts with a sweet pastry base, garnished with almond cream and dark chocolate chips and topped with chocolate whipped cream.

Note

Roll out the dough on baking paper (parchment), this will help you handle it more easily without tearing it.

Always work the sweet dough when it's cold for easy handling. Feel free to put it back into the refrigerator a few minutes if you find that it begins to warm up.

Ingredients

Recipe for 4 portions

For the pie crust

60 Gr

Butter

40 Gr

Icing sugar

0.50 Unit(s)

Egg

15 Gr

Almond powder

1 Pinch(es)

Salt

105 Gr

Flour

For the chocolate whipped cream

200 Ml

Cream 35%

20 Gr

Icing sugar

15 Gr

Cocoa powder

For the almond cream

50 Gr

Almond powder

50 Gr

Butter

50 Gr

Sugar

1 Unit(s)

Egg

5 Gr

Flour

For the garnish

1 Handful(s)

Sliced almonds

1 Handful(s)

Dark chocolate

Preparation time: 45 min

Preheat your oven at 350 °F

General preparation

Cream the butter with sugar, add the eggs one by one. Then add dry ingredients. Form a disk with the dough, wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest 30 minutes in the fridge. Roll the dough to 3 mm using a roller pin and line small tartlet molds. Place them in the freezer.
For the almond cream

In the bowl of a mixer, cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs and dry ingredients and mix well. Place a spoonful of almond cream in the bottom of each tartlet.
For the whipped cream

Whip the cream in a mixer until it is firm. Place the cocoa and icing sugar in a bowl, add a small amount of cream and mix well. Add this mixture to the remaining whipped cream and mix well. Transfer to a pastry bag equipped with a fluted tip.
To serve

Garnish your tarts with some chocolate whipped cream using the pastry bag. Decorate with sliced almonds.

Roll out the dough on baking paper (parchment), this will help you handle it more easily without tearing it.

Always work the sweet dough when it's cold for easy handling. Feel free to put it back into the refrigerator a few minutes if you find that it begins to warm up.

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