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 700 g, you will need:
- 1
206.4 ml butter - 2
135 ml icing sugar - 3
2.8 ml fine (or table) salt - 4
50 ml egg - 5
468 ml flour - 6
25 ml 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: 206.4 ml butter cut into small pieces, 135 ml icing sugar and 2.8 ml 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 ml egg and mix again.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Finish by adding 468 ml flour and 25 ml 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 |
| 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: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
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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: Dublin fruit scones, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, How to succeed in making sabayon (syllabub), Brownies, Peanut rolls, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Diplomat cream, Dipping bread with cheese, Nanou's apple and almond cake, How to prevent butter burning during cooking, Langoustine sabayon tart, ... All |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sweet pastry, Viennese Shortbread, Pink Reims biscuits, Rich hazelnut buttercream, Saint Honoré cake, ... All |
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Naan, Arlesian Biscuits, Cookies of the Camisards, Genoese croque-monsieur, French Family Cake, ... All |
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