Chocolate Tart with Cinnamon Crust

Name: Chocolate Tart with Cinnamon Crust
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 3 oz (75 g) caster sugar; 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) cinnamon; 4 oz (100 g) plain chocolate; 2 oz (50 g) soft dark brown sugar; 2 oz (50 g) unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) water; 3 oz (75 g) plain flour; 3 oz (75 g) ground rice; 3 oz (75 g) butter; the yolks of 3 eggs; ½ pint (300 ml) double cream

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1985

About

This is wickedly rich, but nevertheless no one can resist a second helping. The crust of ground rice and cinnamon holds a soft, dark chocolate and egg yolk filling, topped with whipped cream.

Ingredients

For the crust

3 oz (75 g) butter
3 oz (75

Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven. Melt the butter for the crust and put on one side. Mix the ground rice, flour, caster sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Pour the butter into the mixture and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. Spoon the mixture into a 9–10-inch (23–25 cm) flan tin with a loose base and press firmly and evenly all over and up the sides.

To make the filling, break the chocolate into