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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 15 Minutes Servings: 18 |
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Small pastry case are filled with a rich chocolate filling to serve as petits fours.Use mini muffin pans to make the pie shells. Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups flour |
75 grams butter |
15 grams(1tbsp) sugar |
about 3 tbsp water |
filling |
100 grams soft full-fat cheese |
25 grams sugar |
1 small egg,lightly beaten |
50 grams dark chocolate |
to decorate |
1/3 cup heavy cream |
chocolate curls |
cocoa powder,for dusting |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 F,position oven rack in center.
2. Crust:
3. Sieve the flour in a bowl.Cut in the butter in small pieces and rub in with your fingers till it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
4. Stir in the sugar.Add enough water to mix a soft dough,then cover and chill 15 minutes.
5. Roll out pastry on a lightly floured surface and use to line 18 mini tartlet pans.Prick the bases with a toothpick.
6. Filling:
7. Beat together the cheese and the sugar.Beat in the egg for 1 minute.
8. Melt the chocolate and beat it into the mixture.Spoon in the pastry cases.
9. Bake for 15-18 minutes till the filling is set and the pastry is crisp to the touch.Cool.
10. Decoration:
11. Whip the cream till stiff peaks,place it in a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle.Pip rosettes on top of each tartlet and dust with cocoa or chocolate curls.Chill
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