Chocolate Ganache And Ginger Tart Food

CHOCOLATE GANACHE TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Make dough: In a food processor, pulse almonds until finely ground. Add sugar, flour, and salt; pulse until combined. Add butter, pulsing until coarse crumbs form with no large butter lumps (dough should clump together when pinched with fingers).
• Immediately transfer dough to a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Using a measuring cup, evenly press dough into the bottom and up the sides of pan.
• Bake in center of oven until golden brown and firm to the touch, about 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Make ganache: Place chocolate in a large mixing bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream to a boil. Pour hot cream, through a sieve, over chocolate. Stir until smooth and creamy in texture. Mix in vanilla.
• Pour chocolate mixture into center of cooled tart shell (if chocolate is lumpy, pass through a sieve). Let stand until set, about 2 hours, or refrigerate for 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream, if desired.

CHOCOLATE GANACHE AND GINGER TART

Steps:

• Method Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Prepare a 13 x 35 cm loose-bottomed rectangular tart pan. Chocolate pastry Combine the butter and sugar in a blender and, with the motor running, add the whole egg and the egg yolk. Add the flour and cocoa powder and blend until it forms a dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Press the pastry into the prepared pan and bake blind for 10 minutes (no need to use baking paper and beans). Glacé ginger Slice the peeled ginger as thinly as possible. Place the ginger into a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Drain and repeat. Place the sugar, water and salt into a saucepan and add the ginger. Cook until the liquid is the consistency of thin honey and the ginger is transparent. Remove from the heat and carefully scoop the ginger out of the liquid. Place the strips on a cooling rack and keep to one side to dry overnight. Chocolate ganache Melt the chocolate in the microwave and heat the cream slightly. Add the cream to the chocolate and combine gently with a whisk. Pour a 1-cm thick layer of ganache into the prepared tart pan. Layer generously with the glacé ginger and cover with the rest of the ganache. Keep to one side until set. Serve with vanilla or chocolate ice-cream.

SALTED CARAMEL CHOCOLATE GANACHE TART

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the crust, whisk to combine the flour, cocoa powder and salt; set aside.
• In another bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Add in the egg yolks and vanilla and mix until combined. Little by little, add the dry ingredients until incorporated. The dough may look crumbly, but it should come together easily when you pinch the dough between two fingers.
• Press the dough out into a tart pan. Prick all over with a fork and put into the freezer for 10 minutes. Bake chilled crust for 15 minutes, then cool completely on a wire rack.
• For the caramel, place the sugar, corn syrup and salt in a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium high heat. Stir to combine, but onces the mixture begins to bubble stop stirring for the remainder of the cooking process. The sugar will first turn clear, then it will noticeably start bubbling and eventually take on color. Continue to cook, without stirring, until a candy thermometer inserted into the syrup reads 340°, stir in the butter. Remove the pan from the heat and carefully (watch the sputtering) add the heavy cream and vanilla. Pour the caramel into the cooled crust and refrigerate for about 3-4 hours or until set.
• To make the chocolate ganache, heat the heavy cream to a simmer, then pour it over the chocolate. Let it sit for 60 seconds, then stir until smooth. Pour the chocolate ganache over the caramel tart and refrigerate for a few hours until set.
• To serve, cut into slices and garnish with sea salt.

CHOCOLATE GANACHE PUMPKIN TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking cocoa, pie spice and salt. Stir in butter until crumbly. Press onto bottom and up sides of a 9-in. tart pan with removable bottom; place on a baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes; cool on a wire rack., Meanwhile, in another large bowl, whisk pumpkin, eggs, brown sugar, orange zest, pie spice and salt. Slowly whisk in cream. Pour into crust. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350°. Bake until filling is set, 40-45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack., For ganache, place chocolate chips in a small bowl. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil. Pour over chocolate; let stand 10 minutes. Stir with a whisk until smooth. Spread over tart; chill until set. If desired, garnish with crystallized ginger.

CHOCOLATE GANACHE AND RASPBERRY TART

Steps:

• Using on/off turns, mix flour, butter and sugar in processor until coarse forms.
• Mix egg yolks, lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon water in small bowl. Add to processor, mix until moist clumps form.
• Gather dough into ball, flatten into disk. Wrap in plastic. Chill 30 minutes.
• Dough can be made 2 days ahead. Keep chilled.
• Preheat oven to 375.
• Butter 9 inch diameter tart pan with removable bottom.
• Roll out dough on lightly floured work surface to 12 inch round. Fit dough into pan, trim overhang. Freeze 20 minutes.
• Bake crust until golden, 25 minutes. Cool.
• Meanwhile, bring cream just to boil in small saucepan. Remove from heat.
• Add chocolate, stir until smooth.
• Stir in liqueur and vanilla.
• Cool ganache 15 minutes.
• Transfer cooled crust to platter.
• Spoon chocolate ganache into crust and smooth top.
• Arrange raspberries atop chocolate.
• Stir raspberry jam and 1 1/2 teaspoons water in small saucepan over medium heat until smooth. Brush warm glaze over berries.
• Can be made 8 hours ahead. Cover and let stand room temperature.

CHOCOLATE & GINGER TORTE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3-4. Butter and line a 23cm round springform tin with a disc of buttered baking parchment. Lightly dust the inside of the tin with cocoa and tip out excess.
• Put the chocolate and butter into a medium-size heatproof bowl, add the ginger wine and set the bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Stir occasionally until melted and smooth. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
• Tip both the sugars into a large mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer and add the egg yolks. Whisk until pale and light. Pour the melted chocolate and butter into the yolks and stir until smooth. With another large, spotlessly clean bowl and whisk, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until they just hold a stiff peak.
• Sift the almonds and ginger into the chocolate mixture and fold in using a large metal spoon. Add one-third of the egg whites and stir in to loosen the mixture. Fold in the remaining egg whites until combined.
• Spoon half the mixture into the prepared tin and gently spread level using a palette knife. Gently warm the ginger preserve until it's just spreadable and carefully spoon onto the cake in small dollops. Spoon over the remaining chocolate mixture, spread level and bake just below the middle shelf of the oven for 50 mins-1 hr until a wooden skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out with a moist crumb attached. Allow the cake to cool in the tin and don't be dismayed if the top sinks and cracks.
• To make the ganache icing, tip the chocolate into a heatproof bowl. Then add the cream, butter and ginger wine. Set the bowl over a pan of barely simmering water and stir until melted and velvety smooth. Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
• Carefully run a palette knife around the edge of the cake to loosen it, then put on a serving plate. Spread the ganache over the top, and leave to set before serving.