Double Chocolate Tartlets
- 2 cups plus 1 tablespoon (297 grams) unsifted all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup (35 grams) unsifted cocoa powder
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounces ( 3/4 cup) blanched almonds, finely ground
- 1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, finely ground
- 6 fresh figs, thinly sliced
- Chocolate Miniature Tartlet Pastry: Put the flour, sugar, and cocoa powder in a food processor bowl.
- Process just to blend the ingredients.
- Scatter all the butter slices over the flour mixture, and process with on/off bursts until the mixture has the consistency of cornmeal.
- Whisk the egg and vanilla together in a small bowl.
- With the motor on, pour the egg mixture down the feed tube.
- Process until the ingredients form a ball.
- Remove dough to the work surface, and with heel of your hand press the dough together until it is smooth and cohesive.
- Adjust rack to lower third of oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Arrange four dozen ungreased 1 1/2-inch round fluted tins close together on a 12-x-15 1/2-x- 1/2-inch baking sheet.
- Pinch off 1 teaspoon of the dough and drop it into a tin.
- Repeat until all the tins contain dough.
- One by one, roll each piece of dough into a ball in the palms of your hands.
- (This step aids in shaping the tartlets more evenly.)
- With index finger, press center of dough ball into the tin, then press dough up the sides while rotating tin to distribute the dough evenly.
- Chocolate Frangipane Filling: Process all the filling ingredients in a food processor bowl until the mixture is smooth and free of lumps.
- Spoon about 1 teaspoon of it into each shell.
- Bake for 15 to 17 minutes, or until the crusts edges appear dry and slightly firm to the touch.
- Place the baking sheet with tartlets on a wire rack for about 10 minutes, or until tins are cool enough to touch.
- Squeeze each tin between your thumb and forefinger, turn it upside down, and let the miniature tartlet drop into the palm of your hand.
- Place on rack to cool completely.
- Repeat the filling and baking procedure with the remaining dough.
- Decoration: Just before serving, place a thin fig slice on top of each tartlet.
- Stack undecorated tartlets in an airtight sturdy plastic container and freeze up to 10 days.
- Store decorated tartlets in one layer in a covered foil-lined cardboard container, such as a cake box, at room temperature up to 3 hours.
flour, sugar, cocoa powder, unsalted butter, egg, vanilla, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, blanched almonds, chocolate, fresh figs
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/double-chocolate-tartlets (may not work)