Chocolate Raspberry Tart With Gingersnap Crust Recipes

CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor, combine cookies, sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Process until very fine crumbs form. Add butter and pulse until mixture just comes together. Press crumbs firmly into a 9-inch fluted tart pan with a removable bottom. Place on a baking sheet and bake until crust is dry and set, 20 minutes. Let cool.
• In a large bowl, combine chocolate and pinch of salt. In a small saucepan, bring cream to a bare simmer over medium-high. Immediately pour cream over chocolate and let stand 1 minute. Stir gently until chocolate melts and mixture is completely smooth. Pour chocolate into cooled tart shell and refrigerate until set, 30 minutes. To serve, remove tart from pan and scatter raspberries on top.

GINGER-CREAM TART WITH RASPBERRIES

Steps:

• Make shell:
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Blend ground shortbread, sugar, and butter in a food processor until mixture begins to clump together. Press onto bottom and up side of tart pan. Bake in middle of oven 15 minutes, then cool in pan on a rack.
• Make ginger cream:
• Sprinkle gelatin over milk in a small bowl and let stand 1 minute to soften. Transfer to a saucepan and cook with ginger, sugar, lemon juice, salt, and 1 cup heavy cream over moderate heat, stirring, until sugar and gelatin are dissolved. Cool to room temperature, about 1 hour.
• Whisk sour cream in a large bowl until smooth. Beat remaining cup heavy cream in another bowl with an electric mixer until it just holds soft peaks and fold into sour cream. Gently fold ginger milk into whipped cream until combined well. Pour into crust and chill until set, at least 8 hours.
• Dust tart with confectioners sugar and serve with berries.

EASY CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY TART

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Open up the 2 pieces of pie crust dough and lay one down on your work surface. Dip your finger in water and run it around the perimeter of the dough. Place the second piece on top; the water will help them adhere to each other. Roll out the combined dough to a 12-inch circle and press into a 9-inch tart pan. Use a fork to gently prick holes all over the bottom of the crust. With your rolling pin, roll over the top of the tart pan to trim the excess dough. Place a piece of nonstick foil down onto the dough and fill it with dried beans, uncooked rice or pastry beans. Bake until the tart begins to cook and brown slightly, about 20 minutes; remove the foil and bake until a deep golden brown, for an additional 20 minutes. Set aside to cool while making the filling. The crust can also be made 1 day in advance, cooled and then covered in foil for later use.
• 2. Heat the cream, milk and sugar in a medium saucepan over low heat until the sugar is dissolved and the liquid is simmering, about 5 minutes. Add the chocolate, turn off the heat and let stand for 5 minutes. Whisk until the chocolate is thoroughly melted and the mixture is blended. Set aside to cool for 5 minutes. Use a rubber spatula to gently fold the egg into the cooled chocolate mixture.
• 3. Spread the jam over the bottom of the tart. Pour the chocolate mixture into the prepared tart over the jam and bake until the filling is slightly firm but still has a bit of movement in the center, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and place on a rack to cool.
• 4. Dust with cocoa powder and garnish with raspberries. Serve at room temperature or chilled.

CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY TART WITH GINGERSNAP CRUST

Steps:

• Position rack to middle of the oven and heat to 325.
• Oil sides and bottom of 9 1/2" fluted tart pan with removeable bottom with vegetable oil.
• In food processor, grind gingersnaps until they are the texture of sand. Transfer to a bowl, add melted butter, working it in by squishing with the hands. Press into sides and bottom of pan. Set in refrigerator for 20 minutes until firm.
• Bake crust on baking sheet for 15 minutes until fragrant--don't let it get too dark. Cool on rack.
• Meanwhile, pass 1 cup berries through food mill with fine disk or force threough fine sieve with wooden spoon into medium bowl, about 1/2 cup puree. Discard contents in strainer.
• Put chocolate in medium bowl. Heat cream until just boiling. Pour hot cream over chocolate, whisk to blend. Stir in raspberry puree and salt. Pour ganache into cooked tart shell.
• Refrigerate ganache until fairly firm, about 1 hour.
• Arrange remaining berries on top of ganache, covering whole surface.
• Chill until completely firm, about 30 minutes.