Coffee Caramel Tart
Author: Karina Rivera
Servings: 12

Ingredients:

    CHOCOLATE SABLEÉ
    • 90g Butter (cold, small dice)
    • 50g Confectioner's Sugar
    • 1pinch Salt
    • 23g Almond Flour
    • 180g All -Purpose Flour
    • 20g Cocoa Powder
    • 40g Whole Egg
    COFFEE FINANCIER
    • 15g Almond Flour
    • 56g Sugar
    • 17g All-Purpose Flour
    • 52g Egg Whites
    • 3g PROVA Gourmet Colombian Coffee Extract
    • 38g Brown Butter
    CARAMEL AND COFFEE SAUCE
    • 100g Sugar
    • 60g Whipping Cream
    • 35g Butter, unsalted
    • 4g PROVA Gourmet Colombian Coffee Extract
    • 8g PROVA Gourmet Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Paste
    • 1pinch Salt
    COFFEE GANACHE
    • 100g Milk Chocolate
    • 130g Whipping Cream
    • 10g PROVA Gourmet Colombian Coffee Extract
    • 0.5ea PROVA Gourmet Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Bean
    • 30g Invert Sugar
    • 1pinch Salt
    COFFEE WHIPPED GANACHE
    • 100g White Chocolate
    • 10g PROVA Gourmet Colombian Coffee Extract
    • 20g Glucose Syrup
    • 100g Whipping Cream
    • 5g Silver Gelatin Leaf (sub. 3.5 g gelatin powder)
    • 200g Whipping Cream

    Directions:

    CHOCOLATE SABLEÉ
    1. Preheat the oven to 325°F.
    2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, place all the dry ingredients along with the butter.
    3. Beat until the mixture has a sandy consistency, add the eggs and continue mixing until everything is incorporated. Be careful not to over mix.
    4. Roll the dough between 2 pieces of parchment until it is 3 mm thick. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
    5. Cut with the dough and shape the tart.
    6. Bake for about 12-15 minutes at 325°F. Set aside.
    COFFEE FINANCIER
    1. Preheat the oven to 340°F.
    2. In a mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the almond flour, sugar, and flour at medium speed.
    3. Add the coffee extract and then add the egg whites, trying not to overmix.
    4. Add the butter steadily and mix until incorporated.
    5. Pour into the molds and bake for 12-14 minutes.
    6. Freeze and unmold.
    CARAMEL AND COFFEE SAUCE
    1. In a pot, make a dark amber caramel.
    2. Add the whipping cream little by little and mix until incorporated.
    3. Once incorporated, add the butter, and continue mixing. Add coffee extract and vanilla paste.
    4. Remove from heat and transfer to a container and set aside.
    COFFEE GANACHE
    1. Melt the chocolate in the microwave
    2. In a pot, heat the whipping cream, coffee paste, vanilla pod and invert sugar. Pour the mixture over the chocolate and emulsify. Add the salt and mix.
    COFFEE WHIPPED GANACHE
    1. Hydrate the gelatin in ice water until it softens; Squeeze out excess water and set aside.
    2. In a pot, heat the first cream, glucose, and coffee extract, bring to a boil, add the gelatin, and mix until dissolved.
    3. Pour over chocolate and make an emulsion, add the second cold cream, and keep emulsifying.
    4. Let set in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours.
    ASSEMBLY
    1. Fill 1/4 of the tart shell with the coffee caramel.
    2. Fill the rest of the tart shell with the coffee ganache and let set in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
    3. Place the financier on top of the ganache.
    4. Whip the coffee whipped ganache to medium peaks and using a saint honoré tip, decorate the tart.