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White Chocolate and Cardamom Truffle Tarts
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White Chocolate and Cardamom Truffle Tarts
- Preparation time: 1 hour plus chilling
- Cooking time: 15 minutes for pastry
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Total time:
1 hour 45 minutes
Makes: 12
Ingredients
- 225g sweet pastry
- 5 cardamom pods
- 350g white chocolate
- 400ml double cream
- 1 tsp top-quality cocoa powder
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6.
- Roll out the pastry to 3mm thick. Use to line 12 holes in a medium muffin tin (the holes should be about 7.5cm wide). Prick the bases and chill for 10 minutes.
- Line the pastry with greaseproof paper and baking beans. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove the beans and paper and cook for 5 more minutes until golden. Cool completely.
- Meanwhile, remove the seeds from the cardamom pods and crush in a mortar until powdery. Break the chocolate into small pieces and put in a bowl with the cardamom.
- Heat the cream until just boiling, then stir into the chocolate. Keep stirring until smooth. Now whisk the mixture with an electric whisk until it thickens - this may take 10 minutes. The chocolate should leave a thick trail when the whisks are lifted. Chill for 30 minutes until it holds soft peaks.
- Spoon the truffle mix into the cold pastry cases and chill for another 30 minutes. Dust with cocoa, and serve.
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This recipe was first published in Wed Aug 01 01:00:00 BST 2001.
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