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Recipe of the Week – Chocolate Tart
(From the Dessert Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Chocolate Tart
Our friend from Philly is coming to town this week for a short visit. This is the same friend who was here last year for the Julia Child Weekend. (see The Julia Child Weekend -Lessons Learned) This time I hopefully will not be handicapped by a kidney stone and plan to prepare everything myself. The menu is set and posted on our official site, the frig, rumor has it if it is not on the frig it isn’t happening.
We have planned a Small Plates Party for Friday and a family dinner for Saturday night. I have my homemade breads for breakfast made and frozen and will start the grav lox today. I was searching for one more dessert for Saturday that I could also use on my dessert tray for Friday. This Chocolate Tart ( shown in miniature above) is ideal for a large tart but works very well when created in smaller tart shells.
So if you are looking for an easy, quick and satisfying dessert, whether in miniature, or in the full stick-your-face-in -the- pie variety this is a keeper.
Chocolate Tart
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Congrats (Celebration Meal Plans) |
| 1 | recipe | Tart Dough |
| 1 | recipe | chocolate ganache |
| 1 | cup | raspberries, fresh |
| 1 | Tb | sugar, powdered |
Preheat oven to 375 degrees; bake tarts shells in 41/2 tart pans for 8-10 minutes. Cool tart shells. Fill with chocolate ganache; arrange raspberries on top and sprinkle with powder sugar.
Chocolate Ganache
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Gluten Free |
| Meal: | other (General) |
| 10 | oz | chocolate, semi-sweet bits |
| 1 | cup | cream, heavy |
Heat cream until just below boil, remove from heat, and stir in chocolate until melted.
May be reheated slowly to melt.
To maintain the shine of the tarts don’t refrigerate before serving. The tart dough recipe can be found on this blog and also at emealsforyou.com.
Recipe of the Week – Hot Fudge Sundae
(From the Dessert Collection at emealsforyou.com)
We are having a going away party for a couple in our neighborhood group this weekend and I am responsible for the desserts. I have over 100 dessert recipes on my website (emealsforyou.com) so finding something to make wasn’t the problem, deciding what to make was. After kicking around several ideas we hit on having an old-fashioned Ice Cream Social. We will set up a dessert station with ice cream, hot fudge sauce, caramel sauce, whipped cream and of course cherries to top it all off. The perfect finish for the neighborhood party.
This hot fudge sauce is extremely easy it make and has always elicited rave reviews. Make a double batch, it lasts forever in the frig, well almost forever depending on your families addiction to chocolate.
Hot Fudge Sauce
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Santa Fe Feast (Share-a-Meal Plans) |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, white |
| 0.5 | cup | corn syrup, light |
| 1 | Tb | vanilla |
| 1.5 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 0.25 | cup | cream, heavy |
| 0.5 | cup | cocoa |
Heat sugar, syrup, vanilla, cream and butter in a heavy sauce pan until blended. Mix in cocoa and stir.
Hint: may be kept in the refrigerator for weeks. Re-heat in microwave.
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