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Chocolate and Orange Tartlets Recipe by Catherine Fulvio
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Chocolate and Orange Tartlets Recipe by Catherine Fulvio

Sometimes, even at weekends, time is too short to make your own pastry, so good quality ready-made pastry is perfectly fine for this chocolate and orange tartlets. The small tartlets are the perfect bite-sized treat.

Makes 24 small or 8 x 10cm tartlets

Ingredients:

Melted butter, for greasing
 Plain flour, for dusting
375g ready-to-roll shortcrust pastry
250g dark chocolate
250ml double cream
2 tbsp orange liqueur
 Orange zest strips, to decorate

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/fan 170°C/gas 5. Brush 2 x 12-hole mini tartlet trays (or any other size that you may be using) with melted butter and dust with flour.
2. Dust a work surface with flour and roll out the pastry into a 20cm circle. Using a scone cutter to match the size of the tins that you’re using, stamp out pastry discs and line the trays with them.
3. Line the pastry cases with parchment paper, fill with baking beans and bake blind for about 8 minutes, depending on the size. Remove the paper and baking beans and return to the oven for a further 2 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
4. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (ban marie), taking care not to let the water touch the bottom of the bowl.
5. Combine the melted chocolate with the double cream and orange liqueur. Pour into a jug, then carefully pour into the tartlet cases.
6. Allow to set at room temperature and decorate with the orange strips.

RECIPE FROM ‘THE WEEKEND CHEF’ BY CATHERINE FULVIO
Catherine Fulvio The Weekend ChefThe relaxed vibe of the weekend is the inspiration for Catherine Fulvio’s new cookbook, The Weekend Chef. With a successful cookery school and B&B to run, as well as media appearances and festival events to attend all over the country, Catherine Fulvio decided to make a concerted effort to keep the weekends sacred where possible.

Bringing a more relaxed attitude to weekend cooking, Catherine’s recipes encourage us to forget about the midweek humdrum. Forget about express meals. Close the door, turn the music on and fire up the cooker – it’s the weekend!

 

The Weekend Chef is published by Gill Books, and is available to buy on www.gillbooks.ie.

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