My adaptation of a dish from a free recipe card from the grocery store! It is delicious, juicy, and choco-flavored. Warm tarts with crème fraiche are the best.
| Cook Time: | 50 mins |
| Additional Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 9-inch tart |
Ingredients
- 1 shortcrust pastry crust
- 6 ½ ounces 70% dark chocolate, chopped
- 1 ½ cups ground almonds
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup superfine sugar
- 6 ½ tablespoons butter, softened
- 3 pears – peeled, cored, and quartered
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Roll pastry out to 1/4 inch thickness and use it to line a 9-inch tart dish. Prick the pastry with a fork and then place into the freezer for 20 minutes to prevent pastry from rising during baking.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Set crust aside. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Heat a saucepan about 1/3-full of water to a low simmer, about 5 minutes, then reduce heat to lowest setting. Place a heat-proof bowl over the pan in such a way that it does not touch the water. Add chocolate to the bowl and allow to melt. Limit stirring to an absolute minimum to prevent chocolate from separating.
- Mix ground almonds, eggs, sugar, and butter together in a bowl. Add warm melted chocolate and stir to combine. Pour chocolate mixture into the baked pastry crust.
- Arrange pears on top of the tart by pressing them into the chocolate mixture.
- Bake in the hot oven until pastry is golden and mixture is firm, 35 to 45 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 561 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 53 g |
| Cholesterol | 73 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 7 g |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 203 mg |
| Sugars | 32 g |
| Fat | 37 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Followed it exactly, except for melting chocolate in microwave. Took longer to cook, choc filling never really firm. More like mousse/fudge. Delicious, but actually too much chocolate (never thought I would say that). I should have made a more artistic arrangement of pears – used 4, completely overwhelmed by chocolate. Used Scharffenberger chocolate. Probably would not make again. Why is this recipe not in app?
Very good. Very rich.