Hot Chocolate and Marmalade Tarts

Name: Hot Chocolate and Marmalade Tarts
Yield: For 8 Individual Tarts
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 8 tbsp marmalade; 250 g/8 oz plain chocolate; 100 g/3½ oz caster sugar; 175 g/6 oz flour, sifted; 8 egg whites; few drops vanilla essence; 100 g/3½ oz unsalted butter, softened; 55 g/2 oz dark chocolate, grated; 2 egg yolks; 55 g/2 oz icing sugar; pinch salt; 4 egg yolks

Preparation info

For
8
Individual Tarts

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

This is a delicious recipe from Ernst Bachmann who owns the Bachmann Pâtisserie in Thames Ditton, Surrey (see Directory). Marmalade adds denseness to the chocolate without making it too ‘jammy’.

Ingredients

The Pastry

55 g/2 oz icing sugar
100 g/3½

Europe
United Kingdom
Surrey
London
Summer
Winter
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

To make the pastry

Sift the icing sugar into a mixing bowl and cream lightly with the butter and grated chocolate. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, and then the vanilla. Gently fold in the flour and salt. Bring together, wrap in cling film and allow to rest in fridge for at least 30 minutes.

Roll out the pastry and line eight 10 cm (4 in) tartlet t