Chocolate Tart with Cardamom

Name: Chocolate Tart with Cardamom
Yield: Serves 10-12
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 55 g/2 oz caster sugar; 1 tsp concentrated coffee; 8 cardamom seeds, peeled and crushed (see method in recipe for Pistachio and Cardamom truffles); 85 g/2 oz caster sugar; 75 g/2½ oz unsalted butter; 225 g/8 oz bitter chocolate; 55 g/2 oz unsalted butter; 3 large eggs, separated; 30 g/1 oz ground almonds; 85 g/3 oz plain flour, sifted together with 45 g/1½ oz cocoa powder; 1 large egg, lightly beaten; 6 tbsp double cream

Preparation info

Serves
10-12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

Cardamom has been part of the English food scene since Richard the First’s Crusades brought it back with them. It was popular in Medieval cooking here and seems to have made a comeback. Cardamom, also known as Grains of Paradise, adds subtle depth to this chocolate tart.

Ingredients

85 g/3 oz plain flour, sifted together with 45 g/1½

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegetarian
Winter
Summer
Pie

Method

Butter and flour a 23 cm x 2.5 cm (9 in x 1