Chocolate Truffle Strawberry Tarts

Celebrate the begining of summer with this decadent desert using our delicious strawberries…

Ingredients – chocolate pastry

• 110g Butter
• 180g flour
• 60g icing sugar
• 1 tbsp cocoa
• 1 egg

Ingredients – tart filling

• 200g 70% cocoa chocolate, chopped
• 150 ml whipping cream
• 250g strawberries, hulled & sliced
• Additional whipped cream for decorating
• Chocolate shavings for decoration

Method – pastry

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees centigrade.
2. Grease and flour a loose bottom, 22cm, flan tin.
3. Place the flour, butter, sugar, cocoa in a bowl.
4. Work the ingredients together until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
5. Add the egg and bring dough together.
6. Rest dough in fridge for an hour before rolling out.
7. Roll out pastry to fit bottom & sides of tin, prick bottom of pastry case.
8. Place a piece of greaseproof paper over the bottom and sides of the pastry shell and fill the case with dry beans, rice or lentils.
9. Place the tart shell in the over with the dried beans and bake ‘blind the shell for 15 minutes.
10. Remove from the oven and remove the greaseproof paper and beans and return the pastry to the oven.
11. Bake for a further 10 minutes.
12. The first baking with the beans is to prevent the pastry side slipping down with no filling in the case. The second baking is to crisp the shell.
13. Allow to cool.

Method – tart filling

1. Bring cream to almost boiling point.
2. Add chopped chocolate and stir gently until melted and silky smooth.
3. Pour into cooled tart cases and allow to cool and set before decorating.
4. Decorate with sliced strawberries, whipped cream & chocolate.

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