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 4th 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
How long does it take?
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 16 min. | 16 min. |
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Step by step recipe
| 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). |
5 min. |
| 2 |  | Add 50 g egg and mix again. | 3 min. |
| 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. |
3 min. |
| 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. |
5 min. |
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
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How much will it cost?
For 700 g : 2.51 €
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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: Cramique, Rich hazelnut buttercream, Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, Fraisier (French strawberry cake), Tomatoes Provençal, ... [All] |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines), Oat financiers for Louise, Financiers, Nanou's chocolate cake, Saint Honoré cake, ... [All] |
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cheese tart, Gingerbread, Scrambled eggs (Oeufs brouillés), Almond cream or frangipane, Alsatian apple tart, ... [All] |
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