Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart 4 1000
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Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart

“When you select the right kind of chocolate it is like giving your insides a hug. Everyone needs a chocolate hug”
Jean Kelsey

Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart for times when you need a little more chocolate in your life. I know I just shared a chocolate cheesecake a few days ago, yet while doing that, I remembered this tart. How could I not have shared this too? So much chocolate, so little time!! This is a particular favourite since it has two things that I use most while baking. Yes indeed, oats and walnuts! Add to it brown sugar and ghee/clarified butter, and magic is guaranteed!Oat & Walnut Cookie Pies with Dark Chocolate GanacheOat & Walnut Cookie Pies with Dark Chocolate Ganache It’s another simple fuss free recipe but delivers a sinful punch. I use a cookie dough for the biscuit base. Feel free to bake mini pies like those above, or cookies as below, with the dough instead if you like, maybe top them with a ganache. I really enjoyed making the Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart.Oat & Walnut Cookies I love that recipes are so easily interchangeable, such fun to play around with, It’s not a lot to do actually because the biscuit base/cookie dough is a two step procedure, basically from the jar of one food processor into the bowl of the stand mixer. I use the basic recipe quite often.

Lime Curd, Homemade, ThermomixIt works well each time. This Mascarpone Lime Curd Walnut Oat Tart is testimony. The same cookie dough biscuit base again, topped in a spoon licking good mascarpone & lime curd topping! Hopefully I’ve got you convinced to give the Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart a try. If not this one, then maybe do a variation on it!

Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart 4 1000

Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart

Dark, divine, delicious is how this tart turned out to be topped with dark chocolate ganache! A healthy biscuit base makes the Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart even better. You can make cookies with the same dough, as also use different fillings to top the tart.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 2 tarts {7" each}

Ingredients
  

Oat Walnut Cookie Base

  • 100 g oats
  • 85 g walnuts
  • 85 g brown sugar
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 40 g clarified butter/ghee chilled
  • 1 small egg cold
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Dark Chocolate Filling

  • 300 g 70% dark couverture chocolate
  • 175 g single cream
  • 30 ml full fat milk

Instructions
 

Oat Walnut Cookie Base

  • Preheat the oven to 180C.
  • Place oats, walnut halves, brown sugar and baking soda in jar of chopper. Blend in short bursts until you get a uniform brown sugar like consistency, just until it feels like moist breadcrumbs.
  • Don't overwork the blender or the walnuts will release oil.
  • Transfer to bowl of stand mixer, flat mixer attachment, add the clarified butter/ghee, egg and vanilla extract and mix at speed 4 until it comes together like cookie dough.
  • Line the base of the tart tins with parchment paper. Divide the cookie dough between the two. Work up t the edges, and then flatten the base.
  • Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes, then cool completely on cookie rack.

Dark Chocolate Filling

  • Warm the chocolate with the cream in the microwave, agitate it with a balloon whisk, added a splash of milk, agitate it a bit more. {Agitate means to whisk briskly until smooth & glossy}
  • Once it chilled in the fridge for 30 minutes turned it into the baked shell, and let it set for about 2-3 hours.
  • Top with dark chocolate shavings and dust with cocoa before serving.

About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.

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