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).
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 4th 2018
Keywords for this recipe:For 2 kg 100 g, you will need:
- 1
2 2⁄3 cups butter - 2
1 ¾ cup icing sugar - 3
½ tablespoon fine (or table) salt - 4
2⁄3 cup egg ( How to... ) - 5
6 cups flour - 6
1⁄3 cup powdered cocoa
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 16 min. | 16 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Put into a mixer bowl: 2 2⁄3 cups butter cut into small pieces, 1 ¾ cup icing sugar and ½ tablespoon fine (or table) salt.
Mix together on slow speed until evenly mixed (pastry cooks say "to cream", as the consistency becomes like a cream).
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 2⁄3 cup egg and mix again.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Finish by adding 6 cups flour and 1⁄3 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.
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.
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 |
| 9,793 Kcal or 41,001 Kj | 119 gr | 1,104 gr | 545 gr |
| 363 % | 34 % | 77 % | 61 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 458 Kcal or 1,918 Kj | 6 gr | 52 gr | 25 gr |
| 17 % | 2 % | 4 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 2 kg 100 g : 6.45 £
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
Some recipes that use this recipe
Chocolate cereal bars
These have a chocolate sweetcrust pastry base, topped with dried fruit, toasted nuts and seeds, bound with a brown-sugar and butter mixture, then gently baked. Once the flapjack-like cake has cooled, it can be cut into bars.
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This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sandwich bread, Cod loin with saffron, Ciabatta, Canadian apple crumble, Plum and hazelnut crumble, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pear and chocolate Paris puddings, Fried bread with leek and poached egg , Fruit crumble, How to fry eggs well, Turban of sole with langoustines, ... All |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Amaretti, Pistachio madeleines, Walnut paste, Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines), Croute à thé, ... All |
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Flaky brownie brioche, Curried tuna cubes, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Little Christmas biscuits, Mini Mont d'Or fondue with "spuds in blankets", ... All |
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