Double Chocolate and Lavender Tarts

Name: Double Chocolate and Lavender Tarts
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz unsalted butter, softened; 150 g/5 oz dark chocolate; iced water; 1 egg yolk; 1 tablespoon caster sugar; 25 g/1 oz cocoa; 50 ml/2 fl oz double cream; 50 g/2 oz lavender sugar; 1 whole egg; 2 egg yolks; 75 g/3 oz plain flour; 50 g/2 oz unsalted butter

Preparation info

makes
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Scented Kitchen

By Frances Bissell

Published 2012

About

With both chocolate pastry and chocolate filling, these tarts will satisfy even the most ardent chocoholic. The filling should be made with good quality chocolate, that is to say one that has at least 70 per cent cocoa solids.

Ingredients

Pastry

50 g/2 oz unsalted butter
75 g/3

Dessert
Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Rub the butter into the flour and cocoa and then stir in the sugar and egg yolk. Add iced water, if necessary, to bind to a pastry and leave to rest for half an hour, then roll out and line 4 pastry cases about 10–12 cm/