White Chocolate Tart
A showstyopper for your festive table!
Recipe by: Thando Manyoni
Serves: 8-12
Time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
- For the tart:
- 1 cup Golden Cloud Cake Wheat Flour
- 2 tbsp sugar
- ½ cup salted butter, cold
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tbsp cold water
- For the filling:
- 5x 80g Beacon Heavenly Ivory Cream Chocolate
- 1/3 cup cream
- 3 tbsp butter
- To decorate:
- Fresh mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries)
- Edible silver/gold glitter
- Icing sugar (to dust)
How To Make
- For the tart: Prepare a 24cm tart pan that has a removable bottom with baking spray.
- In a food processor, add flour and sugar. Pulse to combine.
- Add the butter and pulse until fine crumbs form.
- In a small bowl add yolk and water together, whisk to combine.
- Pour into the flour mixture and pulse until the mixture starts to clump together. Don’t over mix
- Press the dough into a ball, wrap in cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 190C. Roll the dough into a large circle that will fit in the tart pan.
- Gently pick up the pastry and place in pan, press pastry down and press into fluted edges.
Cut off any overhang. - With a fork, prick the bottom and prepare for blind baking.
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Carefully remove weights and parchment paper then bake for a further 5 minutes or until the base is golden brown and baked through. Cool completely
- Make the filling; place the cream in a saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer.
- Place the chocolate in a large bowl, pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into the tart tin and place in the fridge for 2 hours or until firm.
- Decorate with fresh berries, icing sugar and glitter.