Gordon's chocolate tart
Superchef Gordon Ramsay makes a gorgeous-looking and fantastic-tasting tart to impress your dinner party guests with
Difficulty and servings
Serves 12
Preparation and cooking times
Ready in 1 hour 40 minutes, plus chilling
- To make the pastry, sift the flour, a pinch of salt and the icing sugar into a large bowl. Rub in the butter until it forms breadcrumbs.
- Beat the egg and yolk with the vanilla seeds and pour through a sieve into a well made in the centre of the flour mix. Mix into a dough, then knead on a clean surface until the pastry comes together. Wrap and chill for a couple of hours.
- Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Roll the pastry so it's no thicker than a £1 coin and big enough to fit a 21cm tart ring or tart tin. Let the pastry overhang the tin by 1cm. chill for 15 minutes. Wrap the remaining pastry and freeze until you need it. Line with baking parchment and baking beans and bake blind for 20 minutes. Remove the beans and trim off the excess pastry and bake for a further 6 minutes. Cool. Turn the oven down to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2.
- Put the chocolate in a large bowl. Bring the milk and cream to the boil. Slowly add to the chocolate, mixing slowly with a spatula. Once everything is mixed, whisk in the eggs and caster sugar. Pour through a sieve into a large jug. Fill the pastry case almost to the top. Put it in the oven and then top up the filling to just below the top. Cook for 35-40 minutes, or until the mix is set but wobbly. Cool. Dust with grated white chocolate, cocoa or icing sugar and pile high with chocolate curls.
Gordon's recipe
'My recipe is for a dessert tart. It looks fantastic (even without the curls it has a glossy surface); has a rich, smooth, almost moussy texture, and cuts beautifully. We make it plain, as in this recipe, or using gianduja (hazelnut chocolate) as a variation.'
Per serving
452 kcalories, protein 6,4g, carbohydrate 43,4g, fat 29,3 g, saturated fat 16,1g, fibre 1,8g, salt 0,26 g
Recipe from olive magazine, November 2009.
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Ingredients
- 100g milk chocolate
- 200g 70% dark chocolate plus more for curls to decorate
- 100ml milk
- 200ml double cream
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp golden caster sugar
- cocoa or icing sugar to dust
SWEET PASTRY
- 250g plain flour
- 125g icing sugar
- 125g butter , chilled and iced
- 1 egg , plus 1 yolk
- ½ vanilla pod , split and seeds scraped out
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Difficulty and servings
Serves 12
Preparation and cooking times
Ready in 1 hour 40 minutes, plus chilling
Ingredients
- 100g milk chocolate
- 200g 70% dark chocolate plus more for curls to decorate
- 100ml milk
- 200ml double cream
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp golden caster sugar
- cocoa or icing sugar to dust
SWEET PASTRY
- 250g plain flour
- 125g icing sugar
- 125g butter , chilled and iced
- 1 egg , plus 1 yolk
- ½ vanilla pod , split and seeds scraped out
Per serving
452 kcalories, protein 6,4g, carbohydrate 43,4g, fat 29,3 g, saturated fat 16,1g, fibre 1,8g, salt 0,26 g
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