Matcha Chocolate Amandine Tart
- 60 grams Unsalted butter or butter
- 50 grams Powdered sugar or castor sugar
- 1 Egg yolk
- 30 grams Almond flour
- 20 grams Cocoa powder
- 90 grams Cake flour
- 50 grams Unsalted butter
- 50 grams Caster sugar
- 1 Egg
- 50 grams Almond flour
- 10 grams Powdered matcha
- 30 grams Sliced almonds
- Bring the butter and eggs for the cookie crust and cream to room temperature.
- Combine the dry ingredients.
- Make the tart crust.
- Beat the butter with a whisk, add the powdered sugar, and mix.
- Add the egg yolk and mix.
- Sift the dry ingredients into the bowl and fold with a rubber spatula.
- It should become crumbly.
- Press the dough together with the palm of your hands.
- Squeeze it together, but don't knead.
- Wrap with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
- Make the cream in the same bowl and whisk without washing either.
- To prepare the pan, melt some butter (amount separate from listed ingredients) and brush over the pan's surface.
- Chill in the refrigerator.
- Use a tea strainer to dust the pan with flour, using a soft brush to brush off the excess.
- Chill in the refrigerator until just before you're ready to bake.
- To prepare the almond cream, knead the butter with a whisk, add the powdered sugar and mix.
- Add the egg a little at a time (so that it doesn't separate), mixing with each addition.
- Add the dry ingredients and gently fold them in with a rubber spatula.
- Chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
- You can complete the steps up to here the day before baking, if you like.
- Bake the almond slices at 110C for 15 minutes.
- Take the cream out of the refrigerator.
- While waiting for the cream to soften a bit, prepare the cookie crust.
- Line your working surface with plastic wrap and place the crust dough on top.
- Sandwich it with another piece of plastic wrap.
- Roll the dough out to a 3 mm thickness, turning the dough every so often to spread it evenly.
- Use the wrap to transfer and press the dough into the tart pan.
- Lightly press it into the edges with your fingers.
- Cut off the excess dough.
- You can bake the leftover dough later, so roll it up into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator.
- Poke holes into the dough.
- Poke a good amount.
- Pour in the cream and smooth the surface.
- Chill in the refrigerator.
- Begin preheating the oven to 180C
- Take the tart out of the refrigerator and arrange the almond slices along the edge.
- Bake at 180C for 45 minutes.
- Once baked, allow it to cool in the tart pan on top of a baking rack.
- It's done.
- Here is the cross-section.
- The balance of green and white is lovely.
- Try my related recipe, "Chocolate Amandine"The steps are basically the same!
- Or, try this related recipe, "Strawberry Amandine".
butter, sugar, egg yolk, flour, cocoa, flour, butter, sugar, egg, flour, matcha, almonds
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/146568-matcha-chocolate-amandine-tart (may not work)