Chocolate-Raspberry Tarts

With their dark chocolate cases and their white-chocolate mascarpone filling, these look fancy enough, but when you eat them what strikes you is their cleanly balanced simplicity. The almost dry bitterness of the cocoa-darkened pastry balances the rich, fat creaminess of the filling, which in turn is perfectly offset by the tart, neatly-beaded berries.

I won’t pretend that the chocolate pastry is that easy to work with. Yes, it does tear easily, but that doesn’t matter, because it p