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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

For 700 g, you will need:

1 200 g butter
2 135 g icing sugar
3 2 g fine (or table) salt
4 50 g egg
5 300 g flour
6 25 g powdered cocoa
Total weight: 712 grams

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Time required

Preparation	Start to finish
16 min.	16 min.

Keeping:

Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Chocolate sweetcrust pastry : Photo of step #1

Put into a mixer bowl: 200 g butter cut into small pieces, 135 g icing sugar and 2 g 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.

Chocolate sweetcrust pastry : Photo of step #2

Add 50 g egg and mix again.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Chocolate sweetcrust pastry : Photo of step #3

Finish by adding 300 g flour and 25 g 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.

Chocolate sweetcrust pastry : Photo of step #4

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.

Nutritional information

% 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).

How much will it cost?

For 700 g : 7.32 €

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Source

Home made.

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	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Clarified butter, Tea and white chocolate biscuits, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Toasted almond cake, Almond cream or frangipane, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Oat financiers for Louise, Little Christmas biscuits, Macarons (the original French macaroons) , Finger biscuits, Succès praliné (praline meringue), ... All
	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gâteau Basque , Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Surprise eggs, Tatin apples with mascarpone cream, How to prepare egg glaze, ... All

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