Chocolate tart

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 chocolate tart, you will need:

• 1 300 g sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
• 2 100 ml milk
• 3 250 ml cream
• 4 200 g dark chocolate
• 5 10 g vanilla sugar
• 6 2 eggs
• Total weight: 960 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 55 min.	10 min.	25 min.	2 hours 30 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Blind bake 300 g sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) to obtain a cooked tart case, and allow to cool. Preheat oven to 150°C or 302°F.
2	In a pan, put 100 ml milk and 250 ml cream, bring to the boil.
3	As soon as it boils, remove from heat and add 200 g dark chocolate cut in small pieces. Mix until obtaining a smooth mixture.
4	Break 2 eggs into a bowl and add 10 g vanilla sugar.
5	Beat to mix thoroughly.
6	Then add beaten eggs to the chocolate mixture, and mix well.
7	Pour the mixture into the pastry case.
8	Cook about 15 minutes, watching carefully. The tart should still be the "trembling" slightly in the centre to be perfect.
9	Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a rack (careful - it's very very fragile). Serve warm or cold the same day, while the pastry is still crisp and the chocolate creamy, a pure delight!
10	For a professional look which eliminates small imperfections from the surface (like in the photograph), remember to pour the mixture into the tart through a very fine strainer.

Remarks

To decorate, you can sprinkle it, when cold, with a little cocoa powder, icing sugar and/or chocolate chips.
You can also add a delicious citrus fruit flavour to the chocolate, by adding a fine layer of candied grapefruit peel before pouring in the chocolate.

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