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Sunday, March 26, 2006

Pears and Chocolate Tart

This tart made of pears and chocolate is ideal for people who have a sweet tooth!

INGREDIENTS:
120 g of Sugar
1 Egg
1 Yolk
70 g of Butter at room temperature
250 of Flour
8 g of Yeast for sweet
2 Pears
200 g of Chocolate (dark or milk chocolate)
50 ml of Milk
25 ml of Passito wine

PREPARATION TIME: 20 minutes

COOKING TIME: 35 minutes

WINE: Passito

PREPARATION
Preheat oven to 220°C. Put the flour, the sugar, the egg, the butter pieces, the yeast and the wine in a bowl.
Then mix all together until you obtain a solid dough.
Divide the dough in two parts: one large part is for the tart base and the other (50 g) for decoration. Dampen a sheet of baking paper and put it on the bottom of a 24 cm diameter deep cake-tin. Then roll out the first part of the dough 1 cm thick and cover the bottom and the sides of the tin. Wash, dry and peel 2 pears. Then cut the pears into small slices
and put them on the dought as shown in the picture below.
In a pan put the dark chocolate (or milk chocolate as you prefer) with the milk and the yolk, and cook until the chocolate is melted and you obtain a cream (for about 4-5 minutes).
When the cream of chocolate is ready pour it on the pear.
Now roll out the second part of the dough on a table and cut it into thin strips. Then put them on the surface of the chocolate to decorate the tart.
Bake for 30 minutes This is the result:
BUON APPETITO!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi.
thinking of making my own one of these tarts, but i cant fine the wine, what could i use as an alternative?
thankyou
Harriet

Elena said...

Hi, you can use a Moscato wine with a sweet taste or other type of wine, the important thing is that their taste should be sweet. Let me know what you use
bye
Elena

Debbie said...

Hi there :)
Is there a particular yeast for making a sweet pastry that we do not know about in the UK? Is it OK to use ordinary quick-action yeast instead?

Elena said...

Hi!the yeast that I use in this recipe is the backing-powder for yeast and it is a quick action yeast so I think it's ok the ordinary quick-action yeast. Let me know.

Elena said...

what I mean for backing-powder for yeast is backing-powder for sweet...I did a mistake.