chocolate tart

Chocolate, Cranberry & Walnut Tart, Cranberry Compote, Vanilla Ice-cream

As featured in Market Harborough Magazine

Serves 8 – 10

Ingredientschocolate tart

Pastry

  • 125g Soft Butter
  • 250g Plain Flour
  • 1 Medium Egg
  • 60g Caster Sugar
  • 10-11 inch fluted tart case

Filling

  • 40g Butter
  • 100g Caster Sugar
  • 100g Dark Soft Brown Sugar
  • 175g Golden Syrup
  • 3 Eggs Beaten
  • 100g Walnut Halves
  • 100g Dark Plain Chocolate
  • 100g Fresh or Frozen Cranberries

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°c or Gas 4.
  2. Rub flour and butter together until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Mix in the sugar and make a well in the middle of the mixture. Crack the egg into the well and need the mixture into a soft ball. (If the pastry has not combined together, add a sprinkle of water). Allow pastry to relax for 20 – 30 minutes in the fridge.
  3. Roll out the pastry onto a floured surface until 3-5mm thick and place into a pre greased tart case or line with grease proof paper ensuring the pastry lines the entire tin walls. Then leave in the fridge for 10 minutes to relax.
  4. Place grease proof paper on top of the pastry and either using baking beans or rice, bake the pastry case blind for 15 minutes until cooked. Allow pastry case to cool.
  5. For the filling, add all the ingredients except the eggs to a pan and cook on a low heat until all the mixture is melted and all incorporated.
  6. Take the mixture off the heat and beat in your eggs.
  7. Pour the mixture into the tart case.
  8. Put the tart in the oven to cook for approximately 25 – 30 minutes until the mixture is set and has no wobble left in the middle.
  9. When cooked leave it to rest for 5 minutes.
  10. Serve with either your choice of ice cream or clotted cream. In the picture we have chosen to serve this with homemade vanilla ice cream and cranberry compote.

Wine Choice

A dessert wine to accompany this dish would be Biegler Muller’s Ortega Trockenbeerenauslese from Germany. This particular wine shows intense aromas and flavours of stone fruits, apricots, orange marmalade, grilled fruits and honey plus some delightfully savoury hints. It is intensely sweet yet the high acidity and relatively low alcohol (10% abv) make this a seductively refreshing wine to cut through the richness of this tart. Again this wine is available from Duncan Murray Wines on Adam & Eve Street.