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Chocolate Tart - so good and amazingly rich and smooth

Easy Chocolate Tart - Bearby style!

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings: 10
Calories: 354kcal
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A rich and smooth Chocolate tart! Very easy to make!

Ingredients

  • 1 packet of chilled Sweet Shortcrust pastry or make it yourself if you have the time
  • 300 ml Double Cream
  • 25 g Caster Sugar
  • Pinch of Salt
  • 50 g Butter
  • 200 g good quality Real Chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons milk approx.

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven Gas 4/180°C/350°F.
  • Loose bottomed
  • Take the chilled Sweet Shortcrust Pasty out the fridge and roll out. Line the loose bottomed tin 23cm / 9 inch with the pasty. Try not tot have any cracks or pin over the top of the pastry in the tin and remove the waste pastry.
  • Bake blind (scrunch up some greaseproof paper and put in some rice, or baking beans).
  • Bake for 15 minutes, remove paper and rice and pop back in the oven for a further 10-15 minutes. Make sure its baked on the bottom and golden brown. Leave to cool.
  • In a saucepan add the Double Cream, Caster Sugar and a pinch of Salt and bring to the boil. Watch it! REMOVE from heat - add Chocolate & Butter, keep stirring until it is all blended and smooth.
  • Finally stir in the Milk. Let it cool a little.
  • Pour into the pastry case and leave to cool minimum 3 hours, pop in the fridge overnight.
  • Remove from fridge approx. 30 minutes before you want to devour it!!
  • Dust with Icing Sugar or Cocoa Powder - leave plain or decorate with raspberries! Serve very small portion with single cream, it's rich!!!!

Notes

*** All nutritional information is approximate and intended as a guide 

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Easy Chocolate Tart - Bearby style!
Amount per Serving
Calories
354
% Daily Value*
Fat
 
25
g
38
%
Saturated Fat
 
15
g
94
%
Trans Fat
 
1
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
 
1
g
Monounsaturated Fat
 
7
g
Cholesterol
 
46
mg
15
%
Sodium
 
182
mg
8
%
Potassium
 
198
mg
6
%
Carbohydrates
 
28
g
9
%
Fiber
 
3
g
13
%
Sugar
 
8
g
9
%
Protein
 
5
g
10
%
Vitamin A
 
581
IU
12
%
Vitamin C
 
1
mg
1
%
Calcium
 
43
mg
4
%
Iron
 
3
mg
17
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.