Greetings All! I've finally mustered the courage to post my first creation. Still a fair way from any gourmet magazine cover but nevertheless " a good start" as hubs says. This recipe is from Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Hermé. I decided to finish it off with my first time fruit glaze. I found it slightly gluggy but I think it was poor technique on my part. Oh well, practice makes perfect!
Following my first tart recipe I decided to try a chocolate tart dough. I didn't want to repeat the same filling as the choc raspberry tart although there was no doubt in my mind that it would be simply divine. So I decided to experiment and "attempt" a lemon cream layer with a chocolate souffle layer on top. This is the result. The idea of combining Lemon flavours with Chocolate was from a recipe from this book and the master himself was not wrong. The tanginess of the lemon cream balances the velvety sweetness of the chocolate souffle and more subdued but equally scrumptious chocolate tart crust. Alas, as with souffles, it somewhat "deflated" after just a few hours. Nevertheless the texture was more dense which was quite yummy cold!
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