This tart was a breeze to make and involved making a chocolate custard by whisking egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch and salt in a sauce pan. The next step was to slowly introduce some warm milk into the egg yolk mixture and bring to a boil to thicken. After it reaches the right temp and consistency, chocolate is added and stirred until melted.
This chocolate custard was then chilled until ready to assemble the tart.
The chocolate shortbread crust that the custard sits on came together easily in my food processor. With only a combination of flour, unsweetened cocoa, confectioner’s sugar, salt, cold butter, and egg yolk, the food processor did all the work! Once the tart dough came together, I placed it in a pan and froze for half an hour before baking.
To assemble the tart, it was just a matter of filling the chocolate shortbread crust with the chocolate custard and topping it with a homemade whipped cream. I also topped it with some caramel toffee sprinkles…
I did make some adaptations to the recipe including:
– For the chocolate custard, I substituted half of the milk with chocolate eclair flavored coffee creamer (because I ran out of milk – oops!).
– I baked my tart dough in a springform pan since I don’t have my tart pans anymore.
– Topped the tart with caramel toffee sprinkles for additional flavor and texture.
Be sure to check out how the chocolate cream tart came out for my fellow Tuesdays With Dorie bakers!
I almost went with toffee sprinkles….but changed my mind at the last minute.
Wow…that looks seriously delicious! I feel a major chocolate craving coming on!!!
I like the addition of the toffee sprinkles – something to break up all that chocolate! Looks great Joelen!
WOW! That looks chocolaty!
What a lovely post…your tart looks so beautiful! It is fun to see what others do each week and I love that you included your subs!
i love how tall your tart is!
Yum…I love that you put on the toffee pieces. Looks great.
Oh! The toffee sprinkles are perfect. It looks so pretty.
Oooh … caramel toffee sprinkles. That makes me drool. Good job!
Yum! Your tart looks totally amazing. I love that you subbed part of the milk for your eclair coffee creamer–I bet that was totally delicious (what a happy accident that you ran out of milk). Wish I could have a slice of this tart right now!
Your picture of the chocolate cream is so rich-looking, I can practically taste it. Well done!
I love the way that looks – the high crust makes it seem so fancy!
This tart looks so good. I want to have a dinner party so I can make it!
This looks heavenly and I love how you were on your toes and found a substitute for being short on milk!