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November 21, 2009

Chocolate tart

Chocolate tart

Ingredients (Makes 4)

  • 200g plain chocolate , melted
  • 50g plain flour
  • 500g shortcrust pastry pack , rolled out to the thickness of a 20p piece and used to line 4 x 10cm tart tins
  • 4 eggs
  • cocoa , for dusting
  • 75g butter , melted
  • 100g golden caster sugar

 How to:

  1. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Bake the pastry blind for 12 minutes. Mix 3/4 of the melted chocolate with the eggs, butter, sugar and flour. Pour into the pastry cases. Bake for 6-8 minutes until just set.
  2. Decorate with the remaining chocolate and dust with cocoa.

Recipe via: BBC Good Food

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September 5, 2009

Mosaiko (Greek dessert)

OK ... After popular demand and a lot of discussion, here is the recipe for the "Mosaiko" or "Salami" or "Kormos" as it is called in Northern Greece :-)

 

Ingredients

  • 250gr Petit beurre
  • 250gr Unsalted Butter
  • 250gr brown sugar
  • 250gr cocoa powder
  • pinch of grated nutmeg
  • Cognac or coffee liqueur, according to taste
  • Foil

How to:

  • Crush the cookies in a bag
  • Mix with the sugar, cocoa powder and nutmeg
  • Add butter
  • Add liquor (start by adding a capful until you get the consistency you like)
  • Knead with your hands until everything is incorporated well.
  • Get some foil, coat it with unsalted butter, and form the mix into a roll, wrap it up and put it in the freezer for about 2 hours.
  • Serve it in slices

 

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