Chocolate Tart for Valentine's Day

Published article Friday 1^st February 2013 featuring myself in the February/March issue of “Xcite” C.ex Group Magazine presenting my “Chocolate Tart” is displayed below with story and recipe.

Chocolate is perfect to enjoy anytime of the year, especially on Valentine’s Day and why not create your own enjoyable chocolate dessert to guarantee Valentine’s Day is extra memorable. This chocolate tart is very easy to make at home by following this recipe, I wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day.

Ingredients

225 g dark chocolate

60 g cocoa powder

210 g butter

300 g caster sugar

300 g eggs

500 g shortbread

Method

Preheat oven to 145ºC Fan forced or 160ºC normal bake. Roll shortbread to a thickness of 3 mm and place in a 30 cm round flan base. Place chocolate, cocoa powder and butter in a bowl and melt in Bain Marie while stirring. Whisk eggs and sugar together in another bowl until sugar is thoroughly dissolved without over whisking. Combine the two mixtures and pour into the shortbread lined tart base. Bake in the oven for approx. 40 minutes and allow cooling. Remove the tart from the flan tin and place on a serving plate. Cut the chocolate tart in 14 slices and place a rosette of whipped cream with a heart shaped chocolate dipped strawberry.

Note: If you prefer a less rich chocolate tart, use milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate.