Chocolate and caramel tarts

Mar 04 04:24pm
easterchoctart
Prep Time Cook Time Serves
20 mins plus 20 mins refrigeration time 35 mins Makes 24
Ingredients
  • 1 1/4 cups plain flour
  • 2 Tbsp cocoa
  • 1 Tbsp caster sugar
  • 60g chilled butter, cubed
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 Tbsp golden syrup
  • 2 Tbsp brown sugar
  • Extra 20g butter
  • 3/4 cup thickened cream
  • 180g dark chocolate,
  • broken into pieces
  • Silver oval dragées, to decorate
  • (sugar-coated almonds)

Here's how: 

1 Put flour, cocoa and sugar in a food processor and process for 30 seconds. Add butter and process until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg and process until dough just comes together. Turn onto a board and knead gently until dough comes together. Form into a 2cm-thick round. Wrap in baking paper and refrigerate for 20 minutes or till firm.

2 Preheat oven to 180ºC. Lightly grease 2 x 12-mould mini muffin tins. Roll pastry out between 2 sheets of baking paper to 5mm thick. Using a 6.5cm round cutter, cut 24 rounds of pastry. Put into prepared tins. Bake for 15 minutes or until firm to the touch. Allow to cool.

3 Stir condensed milk, golden syrup, brown sugar and extra butter in a non-stick pan over a medium-low heat until mixture comes to the boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes or until thick. Cool. Spoon caramel into pastry cases. Return to oven for 5 minutes. Cool, then spread tarts with ganache and decorate with dragées.

4 To make ganache, heat cream in a saucepan until almost boiling. Remove from heat, add chocolate, and stir until melted and smooth. Cool ganache at room temperature until thick enough to spread.

1 Comments Report Abuse
1. kathham2000 - Mar 07 10:52am
omigod! these tarts look so delicious! i'm going to make them on the weekend. thank better homes :)
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