Chocolate Dipped Fruit in Orange Sweet Pastry Shells
- 200 g flour, plus extra
- flour, for dusting the surface
- 50 g unsalted butter
- 75 g caster sugar
- 1 free range organic egg
- 1 orange
- 50 g fair trade divine milk chocolate
- 50 g fair trade divine dark chocolate
- 50 g strawberries
- 50 g kiwi
- 50 g mangoes
- 50 g pineapple
- Preheat oven to 220C.
- Put a pan of water on the heat and wait for it to simmer.
- Grease the pastry cases really, really well, so that when you take them out they dont stick.
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Zest the orange and fold in the flour, egg and orange zest.
- When the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, gently work it together with your hands until you have a ball of dough, and flour it lightly.
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl suspended over the boiling water.
- Sprinkle some flour onto the work surface and roll out your dough, sprinkle flour on the rolling pin if necessary.
- Keep turning your dough round as to stop it sticking to the table.
- Roll it out to approximately 0.5cm thick.
- Carefully line the tart tins with the pastry,cutting off the excess by rolling a rolling pin over the top.
- Prick the base all over with a fork.
- Bake blind for 10 minutes put the beans on top of the greaseproof paper inside the pastry cups to hold the pastry down.
- Slice up the fruit and half dip them in the melted chocolate, put on a rack to solidify.
- Remove the pastry cups from the oven and VERY carefully remove the pastry from the tins leaving it to cool for a moment.
- Spoon a small amount of chocolate into the base of each pastry cup then place the chocolate fruit in the pastry cups and serve with a drizzle of chocolate and dollop of whipped cream.
- Enjoy!
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-dipped-fruit-in-orange-sweet-pastry-shells-295399 (may not work)