1,436 easy and fully explained recipes, with 66,216 photos and 78 videos

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).

56K 1/5 based on 1 reviews

Last modified on: July 4^th 2018

Keywords for this recipe:

For 1 kg 400 g, you will need:

1 1 ¾ cup butter
2 1 cup + 3 tablespoons icing sugar
3 1 teaspoon fine (or table) salt
4 ½ cup Egg ( How to... )
5 0 kg 4 g flour
6 ¼ cup powdered cocoa

Change these quantities to make: 350 g 700 g 1 kg 400 g 2 kg 100 g

Change measures: Metric

Metric weight Metric volumes

How long will 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 ... ?
When should I start for the recipe to be ready at ... ?
Work this out...

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put into a mixer bowl: 1 ¾ cup butter cut into small pieces, 1 cup + 3 tablespoons icing sugar and 1 teaspoon 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.

Add ½ cup Egg and mix again.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Finish by adding 0 kg 4 g flour and ¼ cup 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.

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.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
6,529 Kcal or 27,336 Kj	79 gr	736 gr	363 gr
326 %	31 %	69 %	55 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
458 Kcal or 1,918 Kj	6 gr	52 gr	25 gr
23 %	2 %	5 %	4 %

% 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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg, Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg 400 g : 5.01 €

Change currency:

Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

Some other recipes using 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.
32K 1 hour 18 min.

See all recipes that use it

This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Oat financiers for Louise, Spring veal sauté , Génoise (Genoa sponge), Elsa's Comtoise galette, Sandwich bread, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach and cauliflower with sesame béchamel sauce, Chocolate eclairs, Artichoke Soup, Sesame cookies, Fruit crémeux, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Calissons, Walnut short bread, Millefeuille, Rich hazelnut buttercream, Coconut "croute à thé", ... All
	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rich hazelnut buttercream, Soufflée omelette with cheese, How to fry eggs well, Mascarpone fondant with two lemons, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), ... All

Other recipes you may also like

Marzipan (almond paste)

Very easy to do if you have a food processor which can slice or grate a lot of things.
623K 34.5 11 min. December 19^th 2021

Couscous

In couscous, the meat and vegetable mixture is rather long to cook, but not difficult. And the couscous itself (a kind of coarse semolina) is simple and quick to prepare.
507K4.3 2 hours 36 min. November 16^th 2017

Potato gratin

This classic French recipe is made with sliced potatoes baked in milk and browned on top.
1.1M 14.6 1 hour 47 min. February 21^th 2011

Morteau sausage

In this recipe Morteau sausage is cooked on a bed of potatoes cut into medium sized pieces. The idea of this recipe is that the pricked Morteau sausage cooks slowly, so that its smoky flavour seeps down onto the potatoes - it's a pure delight.
1.2M 34.1 1 hour 31 min. October 13^th 2010

You should not add raisins to recipes dry

Used straight from the packet raisins are too dry and hard.
251K4.1 36 min. February 21^th 2011

News list of cooking-ez.com

Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.