Last week my cousin said he wanted a dark chocolate tart, so I made one. I looked in my cookbooks but only good ol' TJOC had a recipe. So I looked online for variations and came up with this
Chocolate Tart
recipe, purportedly by Gordon Ramsay. I liked it better because the ingredients were measured by weight, and I didn't have to cut in butter for the crust. So I made it. This week's crust behaved alot better than last week's, partly because I learned from last week and rolled it out and placed it on the tart pan as fast as possible, before the dough became impossibly soft.
Tada! Actually I later put foil in the shape of my cousin's initial to make the tart a little more special. It got generally good reviews from the family, and because there are just about 16 people in for dinner, there aren't any leftovers to bring to church.
I think that it's a little bit too light and not very satisfying, even though the flavour isn't bad (it better not be, I bought branded chocolate to make the tart with). It's almost like a mousse, I guess. But this also means that it doesn't feel rich so you can eat more than one sliver (not that there was more than one sliver available for each person).
The tart wasn't the only dessert around; my aunt made mango pudding (adding fresh mangoes to mango pudding mix).
Watch for more in the coming weeks- my mum's birthday is this month! And I should fulfil a request that will enable me to use more of the 1 kg of Valrhona 70% that I bought today.