Milk Chocolate-Pecan Tartlets
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup pecans, toasted
- 1/4 cup sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (or more) whipping cream
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 9 ounces imported milk chocolate (such as Lindt), finely chopped
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped toasted pecans
- 1/4 cup (about) apricot preserves
- Pecan halves
- Grated milk chocolate
- Blend first 4 ingredients in processor until nuts are finely chopped.
- Using on/off turns, add butter; process until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Mix yolk and 1 1/2 teaspoons cream in bowl.
- Add to flour mixture; process until moist clumps form.
- If dough is dry, add more cream by teaspoonfuls to moisten.
- Gather dough into ball.
- Flatten into disk.
- Wrap in plastic; chill 4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Spray eighteen 3-inch tartlet pans with oil spray.
- Press 1 tablespoon dough onto bottom and up sides of each pan.
- Arrange tartlet pans on heavy large baking sheet.
- Bake until crusts are golden, piercing with fork if bubbles form, about 10 minutes.
- Transfer pans to rack; cool completely.
- Melt 9 ounces chocolate in top of double boiler over simmering water, stirring often.
- Remove from heat.
- Bring cream just to simmer in small saucepan.
- Pour hot cream into chocolate; stir until very smooth.
- Stir in chopped pecans.
- Transfer filling to small bowl.
- Cover; chill until filling is consistency of thick pudding, about 2 hours.
- Using small knife, loosen crusts from pans.
- Turn crusts out.
- Spread 1 teaspoon preserves in each crust.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon filling over.
- Garnish with nut halves and grated chocolate.
- Chill until filling is firm, about 1 hour.
- (Can be made 1 day ahead.
- Cover; chill.)
- Serve cold.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/milk-chocolate-pecan-tartlets-1218 (may not work)