Strawberry tart with chocolate-nut bonnet

AUTHOR
Pat Ware
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 250 g + some flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp 1 P. Vanillin sugar
  • 25 g + some icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 4 Eggs (Gr. M)
  • 125 g cold + 50 g soft butter
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
  • 500 g small strawberries
  • 50 g Dark chocolate
  • 125 g (approx. 15 g) + 2 tablespoons ground hazelnuts
  • 1 coated Tsp Baking Powder
  • 50 g Sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Rum or brandy
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Knead 250 g flour, vanillin sugar, 25 g icing sugar, 1 pinch of salt, 1 egg, 125 g butter in pieces and 1 tablespoon cold water first with the dough hooks of the hand mixer and then briefly with your hands to a smooth shortcrust pastry.

  2. 2

    Wrap in foil and chill for about 30 minutes.

  3. 3

    Grease a tart mould with a removable base (26 cm Ø) and dust with flour. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured sheet of baking paper to a circle (approx. 30 cm Ø) and line the tin with it.

  4. 4

    Press the dough into the grooves so that it is approx. 1⁄2 cm above the edge. Prick the dough base several times with a fork. Chill for about 15 minutes.

  5. 5

    Wash, clean and halve the strawberries. Bake the tart in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/circulating air: 175 °C/gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 20 minutes.

  6. 6

    Coarsely grate the chocolate. Mix with 125 g nuts and baking powder. Separate 3 eggs. Beat 3 egg whites and 1 pinch of salt until stiff. Mix 50 g butter and sugar until creamy. Stir in 3 egg yolks separately. Stir in rum and nut-chocolate mixture.

  7. 7

    Fold in the beaten egg white.

  8. 8

    Remove the tart from the oven and sprinkle with 2 tbsp. nuts. Spread strawberries on top and spread with the nut-chocolate mixture. Continue baking at the same temperature for about 25 minutes. Leave to cool in the mould.

  9. 9

    Dust the strawberry tart with some icing sugar.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
260 kcal
CARBS
21 g
FATS
17 g
PROTEINS
5 g