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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Grade this recipe: Last modified on: July 4th 2018
For 700 g, you will need:
- 0
200 g butter - 1
135 g icing sugar - 2
2 g fine (or table) salt - 3
50 g egg - 4
300 g flour - 5
25 g powdered cocoa - Total weight: 712 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 16 min. | 16 min. |
At what time?
- When will I finish if I start the recipe at a certain time?
When should I start for the recipe to be ready at a certain time?
Keeping:
Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
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).
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 50 g egg and mix again.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
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.
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.
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 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 700 g : 2.51 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
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.
10,621 1 hour 18 min.
Source
Home made.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Bonnevaux apple tart, Bechamel sauce, Checkerboard biscuits, Hazelnut and orange cake, Ciabatta, ... All |
| Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sautéed Green Vegetables, Liège waffles, Baked apples from St Aubin le Vertueux, Winemaker's toast, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, ... All |
| Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pistachio madeleines, Chocolate madeleines, Paris-Brest, Macarons (the original French macaroons) , Little Christmas biscuits, ... All |
| Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rémoulette dressing, Surprise eggs, Chocolate and matcha tea biscuits, Pâté de campagne, Cramique, ... All |
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