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Recipe: Chocolate mascarpone tarts
Serve your guests these delicious and oh-so-simple to make chocolate tarts!
Recipes
Recipe: Chocolate mascarpone tarts
Enjoy these simple to make and easy to customize chocolate mascarpone tarts
We’ve all been at a dinner party and witnessed the dessert snub – a guest’s nose not-so-subtly turned up at something the host or hostess has laboured over. That will never be the case with these delectable mini tarts, thank you very much. Simple to make and easy to customize, they come with options to suit every palate. We’ll raise a dessert fork to that!
Ingredients
Chocolate pastry
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- Pinch salt
Mascarpone filling
- 275 g mascarpone cheese
- 1/2 cup icing sugar
- 3/4 cup 35% whipping cream, whipped
Directions
1 To make the pastry, beat the butter with the sugar in a medium bowl until light and fluffy; beat in the egg yolk and vanilla until combined.
2 In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt; add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and stir until smooth.
3 Divide the pastry among eight 4" mini tart pans with removable bottoms, pressing the pastry into the bottoms and up the sides of the pans; prick the bottoms all over with a fork.
4 Refrigerate the pastry shells on a rimmed baking sheet until chilled, about 30 minutes.
5 Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line each shell with foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake on the bottom rack of the oven for 8 minutes. Gently remove the weights and foil; continue to bake the shells until the pastry is no longer shiny, about 10 minutes more. Let the shells cool in the pans on a rack.
6 Meanwhile, make the filling. In a large bowl, beat together the mascarpone cheese and icing sugar until smooth. Fold in the whipped cream in three additions. Divide the mascarpone mixture among separate small bowls. Add your flavourings of choice and scoop the mascarpone filling into the tart shells.
7 Add your desired toppings; serve.
Makes: 8 tarts
Try one of our four favourite flavours
1 Double Raspberry: Fold a dash of raspberry liqueur into the mascarpone filling; top the tart with fresh raspberries, strawberries and blueberries.
2 Rose & Pistachio: Stir rosewater into the mascarpone filling; top the tart with edible rose petals and chopped toasted pistachios.
3 Mocha: Leave the mascarpone filling as is; top the tart with chocolate-covered espresso beans and white chocolate shavings.
4 Pomegranate Mint: Add a few drops of mint extract into the mascarpone filling; top the tart with pomegranate seeds.
Have fun experimenting with your own flavour combinations - the possibilities are endless!
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