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Chocolate sweetcrust pastry

This simplified sweetcrust pastry gets its chocolate flavour simply from cocoa powder, added towards the end of kneading.

Chocolate aficionados will enjoy using this in all sorts of recipes that call for sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée).

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Last modified on: July 4^th 2018

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For 700 g, you will need:

1 1 cup butter
2 ²⁄₃ cup icing sugar
3 ½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt
4 ¼ cup egg ( How to... )
5 2 cups flour
6 2 tablespoons powdered cocoa

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put into a mixer bowl: 1 cup butter cut into small pieces, ²⁄₃ cup icing sugar and ½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt.

Mix together on slow speed until evenly mixed (pastry cooks say "to cream", as the consistency becomes like a cream).

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Add ¼ cup egg and mix again.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Finish by adding 2 cups flour and 2 tablespoons powdered cocoa all at once, then knead for a few seconds until evenly mixed.

Stop the mixer as soon as the dough is ready; it is important not to over-knead it.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Weigh out the dough into pieces of 10-12 ounces (250-300 grams). Shape into balls, then flatten into "cakes" and wrap in plastic film.

Refrigerate until needed or freeze for later.

Remarks

You can use this as the base for simple chocolate biscuits: make them more indulgent by adding chocolate chips to the dough at the end of kneading.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,264 Kcal or 13,666 Kj	40 gr	368 gr	182 gr
163 %	15 %	35 %	28 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
458 Kcal or 1,918 Kj	6 gr	52 gr	25 gr
23 %	2 %	5 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg, Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 700 g : 2.72 $

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	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Special small breads, Panettone, French onion soup, "BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits, Wiener Schnitzel, ... All
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