Alexandrina Outback Portuguese Chocolate Tarts
Alexandrina Autumn Recipes Series
This recipe was given to use by Nanna Judy, about a decade ago – when she worked for the Port Augusta School of the Air. This recipe comes from one of the School of the Air (SOTA) cookbooks – Feeling Hungry? If you have someone visiting your home, you best turn on the oven, and whip these up – your visitors will be impressed by these, ultimately the pastry should be short and crisp, and the filling should be smooth and should cut like butter. We always make these once a year around Mother’s Day, it’s a tradition.
You will need Alexandrina Milk & Alexandrina Pure Jersey Cream for this recipe
OUTBACK PORTUGUESE CHOCOLATE TARTS
Ground work - 10-15 minutes prep; First Bake 10-15 minutes; Second Bake 10-15 minutes.
elements
For the pastry case crust:
150 gm puff pastry
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons caster sugar
pinch of cinnamon
pinch of all spice
1 orange, zested
For the filling:
300 ml Alexandrina Pure Jersey Cream
150 gm best quality baking chocolate broken up
50 ml Alexandrina Pure Jersey Full Cream Milk
2 tablespoons caster sugar
pinch of salt
cocoa powder, for dusting
technique
*cut 12 pieces of baking paper to line your moulds
For the pastry case crust:
dust surface of the bench with flour, and roll out the pastry to a bit bigger than 25cm x 25cm
brush with egg yolk and scatter with caster sugar, cinnamon, all spice and zest
roll the pasty up tightly like a swiss roll to make a long sausage shape
with a knife, cut across the sausage into 2.5 cm pieces
take 8-12 pieces aside, and freeze the rest of the pastry for a rainy day
preheat the oven to 200 C
turn all the pieces of pastry swirl-side up and flatten them slightly
dust the surface of the pastry with flour, then roll each piece out into a thin circle (teacup saucer size)
the idea is to pleat, pinch and hug the pastry around a mould,
you can use proper pastry moulds, or glass tumblers, or use an upside-down muffin tin to bake the cases. *a little sheet of baking paper will make removing the pastry from the pastry mould, once they are out of the oven
place the cases on a baking tray, with the pastry at the top, and put into a preheated oven until crisp and golden, for around 10-15 minutes
allow to cool, and carefully remove the pastry cases from around the mould
you may wish to take a tea towel and gently pat the bottoms of each pastry case
For the filling:
place the Alexandrina Pure Jersey Cream, sugar and a pinch of salt in a pan and bring to a simmer
as soon as the mixture is near to boil, remove from the heat, and add the chocolate
stir until it has completely melted, allow the mixture to cool slightly, stirring in the cold milk until smooth and shiny
sometimes the mixture looks like it has split, if this happens allow the mixture to cool down a bit more, and whisk in a little extra cold milk until smooth
divide all the mixture into the cooked pastry shells
gently shake to even the mixture out, and put into a preheated oven until crisp and golden, for around 10-15 minutes. Once cooked allow to cool for 1-2 hours, until the tarts are at room temperature.
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