Chocolate Tart

Photo: flickr user theskinimin

Ingredients

1 tart shell baked blind (qv short crust sweet p

375 mls double cream

2 level tablespoons caster sugar

the smallest pinch of salt

115 grams butter softened

455 grams bestquality cooking chocolate broken up

100 mls milk cocoa powder for dusting

Preparation

Place the double cream sugar and pinch of salt in a pan and bring to the boil.

As soon as the mixture has boiled remove from the heat and add the butter and chocolate.

Stir until it has completely melted. Allow the mixture to cool slightly stirring in the cold milk until smooth and shiny.

Sometimes this mixture looks like it has split.

Allow to cool down a bit more and whisk in a little extra cold milk until smooth.

Scrape all the mixture into the cooked and cooled pastry shell with a spatula. Shake the tart to even it out and allow to coot for around 12 hours until it is at room temperature.

Dust with the cocoa powder.

Ultimately the pastry should be short and crisp and the filling should be smooth and should cut like butter.

This chocolate tart is great for those choco freaks who turn up out of the blue as it is dead quick to make. I think this particular tart cries out for a slightly thicker pastry shell. The better the chocolate you can buy the tastier it wilt be.