Name: Maureen's Chocolate Galette
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 5 oz. butter; 3 oz. icing sugar; 8 oz. butter; 1 oz. butter; 4 tablespoons milk; 1 block expensive dark chocolate; 2 oz. icing sugar; 3 oz. cocoa powder; 1 measure brandy; 7 oz. plain flour; 1 oz. cocoa powder; 2 egg yolks, beaten

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd's Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 1981

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Ingredients

For the pastry

7 oz. plain flour
1 oz. cocoa powder
5

Method

Make the pastry: mix the cocoa, flour and icing sugar together. Add the beaten eggs and knead in the butter. Leave to rest for one hour before rolling out. Divide into three 10" rounds about ⅛” thick - in other words, as thin as possible. Bake for 5 or 6 minutes at 200°C/400°F/gas 6. Leave to cool.

Now mix the filling ingredients together to make a rich chocolate butter cream. Spread th