Coffee & Hazelnut Dark Chocolate Tart
Author: Tristan Rousselot
Servings: 10

Ingredients:

SWEET COCOA DOUGH

  • 11g White Almond Powder
  • 21g Potato Starch
  • 64g Flour T55
  • 8g Cocoa Powder (22/24% fat)
  • 0.4g Fine Salt
  • 36g Icing Sugar
  • 38g Butter (unsalted)
  • 21g Whole Eggs

DARK CHOCOLATE & COFFEE GANACHE

  • 82g Heavy Cream
  • 16g Inverted Sugar
  • 0.3g Fine Salt
  • 63g Dark Chocolate Couverture, 72%
  • 11g Milk Chocolate Couverture (superior 38%)
  • 18g Butter (unsalted)
  • 10g PROVA Gourmet Fusion Coffee

DECORATION

  • 100g Hazelnuts (whole)

Directions:

SWEET COCOA DOUGH

  • 1. In a mixing bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, blend the butter cut into cubes and the sifted powders until sandy. Then add the whole eggs and mix until dough forms.
  • 2. Roll out the dough between two silicone baking mats to a thickness of 2.5 mm. Let rest overnight and cut out discs 3.5 cm in diameter.
  • 3. Bake on an inverted silicone half-sphere mold for 20 min at 155°C.

DARK CHOCOLATE & COFFEE GANACHE

  • 1. In a saucepan, heat the cream, inverted sugar, and salt to 70°C. Pour the hot mixture over the dark and milk chocolate couverture and the cubed coffee fusion.
  • 2. Blend intensely with an immersion blender without incorporating air bubbles.

DECORATION

  • 1. Toast the hazelnuts for 20 min at 160°C. Allow to cool and then crush the hazelnuts.
  • 2. Pour the warm ganache into the cocoa tart shells and sprinkle crushed hazelnuts over the top. Leave to crystallize.