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Chocolate sweetcrust pastry

Name: Chocolate sweetcrust pastry
Prep time: 16 min
Total time: 16 min
Yield: 700 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 cup butter; 2&frasl;3 cup icing sugar; ½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt; ¼ cup egg; 2 cups flour; 2 tablespoons powdered cocoa

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).

74 K 1/5 (1 reviews)

20 min.

Easy

2.55 €

700 g

6 Ingredients

Last modified on: July 4^th 2018

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For 700 g, you will need:

1 1 cup butter
2 ²⁄₃ cup icing sugar
3 ½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt
4 ¼ cup egg ( How to... )
5 2 cups flour
6 2 tablespoons powdered cocoa

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 20 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put into a mixer bowl: 1 cup butter cut into small pieces, ²⁄₃ cup icing sugar and ½ 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 ¼ cup egg and mix again.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Finish by adding 2 cups flour and 2 tablespoons 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

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	40 RDI=20 %	370 RDI=40 %	180 RDI=30 %	3,260 RDI=160 %	13,670 RDI: 160 %
Per 100 g	5 RDI=2 %	50 RDI=5 %	30 RDI=4 %	460 RDI=20 %	1,920 RDI: 20 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, egg, Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 700 g : 2.55 €

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