When you are looking for a last minute dessert, try this puff pastry tart. All you may need to buy is puff pastry and chocolate, the rest of the ingredients you most likely have in your pantry.
Key Ingredients in This Recipe
You’ll find the complete list of ingredients and exact quantities in the recipe below.
- Puff pastry – 1/2 sheet
- Chocolate – max. 60%
- Egg white
- Cream of tartar – to stabilize the whipped egg white
- Sugar
- Pine nuts – chopped
- Salt
- Egg yolk + turbinado sugar – optional
How to Make the Rustic Chocolate Puff Pastry Heart for Two
Step 1 – Roll out a 1/2 sheet of pastry dough and cut a heart shape. For this recipe I used a heart pie dish (6 x 5 inches). Place on baking sheet, lined with parchment paper.
Step 2 – With a fork, prick the center of each heart of puff pastry, leaving about ½ inch border untouched. Be careful not to pierce the dough all the way down.
Step 3 – Whip the egg white with the cream of tartar. Gradually add sugar and salt until the whipped egg white shows stiff peaks.
Step 4 – Melt the chocolate and finely chop the pine nuts.
Step 5 – Fold melted chocolate and chopped pine nuts into the whipped egg white until combined.
Step 6 – Scoop the chocolate mousse on the pastry dough heart, only on the area that you pricked with the fork.
Mix an egg yolk with a little bit of water and baste the exposed dough with it. Sprinkle that egg wash with turbinado sugar.
Place the baking dish in an oven heated to 425 degrees F and bake for 10-15 minutes.
Enjoy this lovely Rustic Chocolate Puff Pastry Heart with your partner.
Rustic Chocolate Puff Pastry Heart for Two
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- 1/2 sheet pastry dough
- 1 ounce chocolate, max 60%, finely chopped or chocolate nibs
- 1 egg white
- 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon pine nuts, chopped
- 1 egg yolk
- turbinado sugar, optional
Instructions
- Roll out a 1/2 sheet of pastry dough and cut a heart shape. For this recipe I used a heart pie dish (6 x 5 inches).
- Place on baking sheet, lined with parchment paper.
- With a fork, prick the center of each heart of puff pastry, leaving about ½ inch border untouched. Be careful not to pierce the dough all the way down.
- Whip the egg white with the cream of tartar. Gradually add sugar and salt until the whipped egg white shows stiff peaks.
- Melt the chocolate and finely chop the pine nuts.
- Fold melted chocolate and chopped pine nuts into the whipped egg white until combined.
- Scoop the chocolate mousse on the pastry dough heart, only on the area that you pricked with the fork.
- Mix an egg yolk with a little bit of water and baste the exposed dough with it. Sprinkle that egg wash with turbinado sugar.
- Place the baking dish in an oven heated to 425 degrees F and bake for 10-15 minutes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.