Saturday 27 November 2010

Chocolate Truffle Crostata


This Daring Bakers challenge came at a very busy time, so this isn't too wild. No giant profiterole presents or baked alaska mountain ranges this month. Just a really yummy chocolate tart. 


The 2010 November Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Simona of briciole. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make pasta frolla for a crostata.  She used her own experience as a source, as well as information from Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well.


I chose to make the first pasta frolla for my crostata. I had a few ideas for fillings, but in the end I settled on this yummy chocolate truffle filling. I've made it once before and it's a great recipe. The coffee comes through fairly strongly, especially when the tart is cold. I wasn't sure about the pastry when I took it out of the fridge to roll - it had got all sweaty and solid. It came out in the end, though. Perhaps not my favourite pastry ever, but it was fun to do something different. 

Originally I wanted to do a lace design on top of my crostata. Then I came across quite a lot of complications when trying to design it and the pastry turned out to be fairly hard to work with, so I switched to this art deco design. I cut the design out of the rolled out pastry with a knife and then baked the pieces separately, chilling throughly in between. When it came out of the oven I arranged the pieces on the top. Another time I would wait until it had cooled slightly as the top tore slightly in places and I misplaced a few pieces and couldn't move them without causing chaos. 


To find the recipe for the pastry, head over to the Daring Bakers website. The chocolate truffle filling is from Tartelette - I halved it to fill this tart. 

22 comments:

  1. WOW your final crostata is so astounding I just LOVE the pastry design it is so beautiful and so so elegant!!! Fabulous result great effort. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.

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  2. Me too, love the design on top and the filling sounds delicious, too.

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  3. It looks beautiful. And who can say no to chocolate? Yum!

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  4. Gosh...that is so pretty! You know I would just LOVE that lattice...right up my street! Gorgeous!

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  5. Beautiful decoration and filling! Love it! :)

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  6. That tart is art! Lovely creation

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  7. What a gorgeous design on top! I bet this was delicious as well as beautiful, with that rich chocolate filling.
    :)

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  8. That pastry design is amazing! I really wanted to do another crostata with a chocolate filling but I didn't get around to it. This one looks great. Well done!

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  9. As a chocoholic, I am perfectly content with your chocolate filling. The decoration looks nice too.

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  10. Wonderful, delicious! Adorable decoration.

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  11. Your crostata looks beautiful! I love your crust work. Nice job on the challenge!

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  12. What an original and elegant design for the top of the tart. I love that it has a 3-D effect.

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  13. Yours is one of the most eye-catching chocolate tarts I've ever seen. You thought a lattice was difficult and this art deco design was easy? Wow!!!

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  14. You're so creative it's unbelievable! Beautiful work

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  15. Love the truffle filling! So yummy!
    I was glad that was a pie for this Challenge too. I think November is a busy month for everyone!
    Great job!

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  16. Chocolate truffle filling? Yum!! I love this! Great job on this challenge!

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  17. Yum!

    When do you start cooking school? I can't remember if you decided on Patisserie or All round cooking.

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  18. That's so elegant! I love the idea of a little drawing in pastry, it's wonderful.

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