Chocolate raspberry tart with chocolate caramel and sorbet
Preparation time is 2 hours.
Ease of preparation is Intermediate.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
Chocolate Sable Dough:
- 120 g butter
- 90 g icing sugar
- 235 g flour
- 30 g almond powder
- 2 g salt
- 50 g whole eggs
- 10 g cocoa powder
- 2 g baking powder
Chocolate Raspberry Ganache:
- 65 g cream
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 60 g raspberry purée
- 10 g glucose
Raspberry Chocolate Sorbet:
- 200 mL water
- 35 g sugar
- 75 g dark chocolate
- 75 g raspberry purée
Chocolate Caramel Fan:
- 50 g water
- 200 g sugar
- 25 g cocoa paste
Directions
Chocolate Sable Dough:
- Mix soft butter with icing sugar, flour, almond powder and salt.
- Make a well with this mixture, add eggs and incorporate.
- Finish kneading with sieved cocoa powder and baking powder.
- Refrigerate for minimum half-hour.
- Roll out and line small tart moulds.
- Bake in medium heated oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 15 minutes.
Chocolate Raspberry Ganache:
- Bring cream to a boil.
- Add to chopped chocolate and mix with wooden spatula until cream is smooth.
- Incorporate lukewarm raspberry purée and glucose, (sugar which does not crystallize, can substitute with corn syrup) in the same manner.
- Pour into previously baked tart shells (above) and bake in a 350 degrees Fahrenheit oven for 5 minutes.
- Serve lukewarm.
Raspberry Chocolate Sorbet:
- Boil water with sugar.
- Pour over chopped chocolate.
- Finish by incorporating the raspberry purée.
- Mix in mixer and transfer to ice cream machine when cooled.
Chocolate Caramel Fan:
- Cook water and sugar to 150 degrees Celsius.
- Add cocoa paste (100 % cocoa chocolate).
- Mix and bring sugar to 160 degrees Celsius.
- Spread out four fan shapes on parchment paper.
- While mixture is still soft, gather the parchment paper to make folds in the fans to give it a wavy look.
- Remove when hardened.