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 2 kg 100 g, you will need:
- 1
600 g butter - 2
405 g icing sugar - 3
6 g fine (or table) salt - 4
150 g Egg ( How to... ) - 5
900 g flour - 6
75 g powdered cocoa - Total weight: 2,136 grams
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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: 600 g butter cut into small pieces, 405 g icing sugar and 6 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 150 g Egg and mix again.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Finish by adding 900 g flour and 75 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.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 9,793 Kcal or 41,001 Kj | 119 gr | 1,104 gr | 545 gr |
| 490 % | 46 % | 104 % | 83 % |
| 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 2 kg 100 g : 7.52 €
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: Soft apple cookies, Toffee apple upside-down cake, Muffin dough, "BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits, Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée), ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: "Buttonhole" quail eggs, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Filet mignon with asparagus, Italian toast, Citrus tart, ... All |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Arlesian Biscuits, Chocolate almond cookies, Gâteau Nantais, Swiss meringues, Stuffed prunes, ... All |
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Potato Waffles with Smoked Salmon, Rémoulette dressing, Eggs en Cocotte à la Française, Potato tortilla (Spanish omelette), Pâté de campagne, ... All |
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