Chocolate Tarts

[SarahK]

Ingredients

Pastry:

250g plain flour

125g unsalted butter

2 tablespoons caster sugar

iced water

(or just be lazy and by some short crust pastry!)

Filling

75g unsalted butter

125g plain chocolate

90g caster sugar

2 eggs, beaten

75g plain flour

Method:

To make pastry sift the flour into a bowl, add butter, cut into small peices and rub in. Add the sugar and water and mix to smooth dough. Kneed lightly, press into a smooth dough, cover in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Roll out pastry and place into 10cm/ 4 inch pie tins and bake blind for 10 to 15 mins or until golden at 200 C (400 F)

For the filling, melt the butter and chocolate together over a low heat and stir in the sugar eggs and flour.

Add the filling to the pie cases, reduce the oven heat to 180 C (350 F) for 20 minutes.

Serve warm or cold.



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The filling in these is kind of like brownies, it should be gooey in the centre.

[Twitchin Kitten]

Sarah, you say plain chocolate. What do you mean by this?
Bakers chocolate?
Dark chocolate candy bars?
Milk chocolate?

[SarahK]

Plain chocolate is Dark Chocolate - preferable around 70% cocoa solids.

[Twitchin Kitten]

TY