Name: Double Chocolate and Lavender Tarts
Yield: makes 4
Ingredients: 75 g/3 oz plain flour; 50 g/2 oz unsalted butter; 25 g/1 oz cocoa; 1 egg yolk; iced water; 25 g/1 oz unsalted butter, softened; 150 g/5 oz dark chocolate; 50 g/2 oz lavender sugar; 50 ml/2 fl oz double cream; 2 egg yolks; 1 whole egg; 1 tablespoon caster sugar

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

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/

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