Hot Bitter Chocolate and Orange Tart with Hazelnut Pastry

Name: Hot Bitter Chocolate and Orange Tart with Hazelnut Pastry
Yield: Serves 8-10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 25 g/¾ oz cocoa powder; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 225 g/8 oz flour; 150 ml/¼ pint double cream; 100 g/3½ oz unsalted butter; cold and diced; pinch salt; 100 g/3½ oz caster sugar; juice of 2 oranges; 25 g/¾ oz ground hazelnuts; 5 eggs; zest of 1 orange, grated

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

Here’s one from the irrepressible Herbert Berger, Head Chef of I Lombard Street, in the City of London. Makes a tart with deliciously light pastry. Oranges go really well with chocolate. The orange filling needs to rest for 24 hours, so start this the day before you want to serve it.

Ingredients

The Filling

juice of 2 oranges
zest of 1 orange, grated

Europe
United Kingdom
Pie
Vegetarian
London
Summer
Winter
Spicy

Method

To make the filling

Whisk together by hand the orange juice, orange zest, eggs and cocoa powder Whisk in the cream. Pour into a glass bowl in the fridge and allow to stand for 24 hours.

To make the pastry case

Preheat the oven to