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Baking with Julia, chocolate tart, chocolate truffle tart, Dorie Greenpsan, Julia Child, tart, truffle tart
Let me just bullet this week’s thoughts on this Tuesdays with Dorie recipe! I will follow it up with my photos… try not to drool …. I said “try”…
- I thought I had all the necessary ingredients, because these are all items I keep in stock – usually in large quantities
- Turns out, I was two eggs short.
- I usually have 3 dozen eggs in my fridge at any given time, but we had just made a bunch of hard-boiled eggs for egg salad …. guess that left me with 6 eggs, since I used four for a lemon poppy seed cake after the egg salad
- The egg salad IS FINGER-LICKIN’ GOOD!
- So I only used 6 egg yolks in the tart
- 60-85% chocolate bricks fill one side of the top shelf of my fridge. There were only a few bricks of white and milk chocolate left after my last chocolate baking adventure.
- Mei and the baby in the belly have completely worn me out today and by the time dinner had passed and I got around to baking the tart, I was concentrating really hard to read and re-read the directions
- I used a food processor to make the dough and it came together wonderfully! I totally suggest this over the hand mixing – it just seems like too much work when you can just hit “pulse” a few times and viola!
- I have now tempered chocolate so many times that I could do this in my sleep
- The process of folding the egg yolks and sugar mixture into the tempered chocolate nearly put me to sleep, but it was smooth and decadent looking.
- Couldn’t find any biscotti (not really popular here) so I used Biscoff cookies that are a cinnamon spice cookie to be enjoyed with coffee and purchased to re-make the cinnamon crunch chicken that we so thoroughly enjoyed for French Fridays with Dorie awhile back
- Like sometime last year. It’s delicious. You should try it.
- You will first have to buy a copy of “Around My French Table” first… or bribe me to give you the recipe.
- And if you have just gone to Amazon to buy your copy of that book, you might as well join our group, French Fridays with Dorie. Our tight-knit group is fabulous and you know you want to be “in”
- I used a grown-up size fluted tart pan since I didn’t feel up to a visit to the kitchen store to buy a bunch of mini-tart pans -if they just happened to have them that day…
- The dough had to be patched a bit in the pan, but it worked out well and my fingers smelled so completely edible at the end!
- I kept the bottom on the tart pan and made sure the tart dough was cooked through before adding the filling and it worked out magically
- Oh I did poke the bottom of the tart dough with a fork for some catharsis.
- It worked.
- It also woke me up just a bit.
- Mei woke up from her nap and very, very quietly crawled up behind me and grabbed my calf and scared the living daylights out of me in my tired state while I was spooning the filling into the tart pan.
- I very nearly kicked her in the face.
- Mei is fine. Don’t worry, she was all smiles and very excited to see me baking something.
- She tends to get overly excited if she sees the oven door open.
- The tart cooled on a wire rack to room temperature
- Then we stuck it in the fridge since we read about people running into “runny” tart fillings… we don’t need that kind of trouble
- Mei and I thoroughly enjoyed the chocolate tart for a midnight snack in the wee-hours of Tuesday morning with some rose tea with milk over the latest episode of “Criminal Minds”
- A little piece of heaven… tasted like a cross between the decadence of a brownie with small bits of cookie and sweeter chocolate with crisp bits of tart dough all around. A perfect midnight treat!
The recipe is not posted on our blogs to encourage you to purchase your own copy and join in the fun – but if you are a rebel, or can’t wait then the recipe can be found on our weekly hosts’ blogs at: A Whisk and a Spoon, Spike Bakes, Good Eats & Sweet Treats, and Cookbook Habit.