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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 1 kg 400 g, you will need:

1 1 ¾ cup butter
2 1 cup + 3 tablespoons icing sugar
3 1 teaspoon fine (or table) salt
4 ½ cup egg ( How to... )
5 4 cups flour
6 ¼ cup powdered cocoa

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put into a mixer bowl: 1 ¾ cup butter cut into small pieces, 1 cup + 3 tablespoons icing sugar and 1 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 ½ cup egg and mix again.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Finish by adding 4 cups flour and ¼ cup 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
6,529 Kcal or 27,336 Kj	79 gr	736 gr	363 gr
326 %	31 %	69 %	55 %

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 1 kg 400 g : 5.01 €

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	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Invisible apple cake, Galette Charentaise, Gâteau Basque , Madeleines, Fish in a sesame crust, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Galette Charentaise, Panettone, Béarnaise sauce, Pan-baked hash brown (Hash-brown casserole), Duet of creamed cauliflower and cabbage , ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little Christmas biscuits, Walnut short bread, Pistachio "Financiers", Chocolate almond cookies, Almond dacquoise, ... All
	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Lime (or lemon) curd, Quiche filling mixture, Sorrel omelette, Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart, ... All

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