Orange, apricot and chocolate tart

Instructions

Make cacao pastry.

1. Grate butter, set aside.
2. In a big bowl add pastry flour with cocoa powder ground toasted hazelnuts, grated butter and salt. Mix between your hands until combined. Texture must be grainy.
3. Add moscobado sugar, egg and mix lightly.
4. Transfer the dough to a counter and knead making fraisage technique. It will be useful to get an homogenous dough but without gluten developed.
5. Put the heel of the hand over the dough and push to the front little by little to get a merged dough but without being elastic. We can see how to make it in this video.
6. Once the dough is homogenous, roll it between two teflon sheets into 0,11 inches (3 mm). Diameter dough must be bigger than iron skillet.
7. Let sit between two sheets over a baking tray in the fridge for 2 hours or overnight.

Bake cocoa pastry.

1. Remove teflon sheets and place the pastry over a parchment.
2. Helping with the ring pastry, cut the base and let sit without remove the ring.
3. Cut strips, bit higher than the ring height, and place around the base. You must to cut several strips to cover the tart sides. Press which each other to join the ends the strips.
4. Remove the excess of pastry with a knife to have a perfect edge.
5. Tap the base with a fork. Refrigerate for 30-40 minutes.
6. Preheat oven 345ºF.
7. Remove from the fridge, line pastry with baking paper and fill with ceramic pie weights or uncooked beans.
8. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
9. Remove ceramic pie weights, brush with beaten egg-white and bake for 5 minutes more.
10. Remove from the oven, with care, and let cool.

Make orange apricot cream.

1. Fill a bowl with very cold water and introduce the gelatin leaves inside to make them hydrate.
2. Melt the butter, set aside.
3. Squeeze the orange juice, set aside.
4. Wash the apricots, cut in half and remove the bone.
5. With the aid of a blender, we will make the apricot juice. Add apricot in chunks along with some orange juice and blend, set aside the juice.
6. Mix both juices and pass through a colander.
7. In a medium saucepan pour the juice along with the eggs, sugar, butter and Cointreau.
8. Place over medium heat stirring (my vitroceramic hob has 1-9 position, I used the 5), thus avoid adhering to the bottom of the pan and forming lumps.
9. Keep it to the heat, beating with the rods constantly until the mixture reaches the 181ºF, for this we will help us of a digital thermometer. It is important that the mixture does not boil. It will take us about 10 minutes, patience.
10. Remove from the heat and let the mixture reduce its temperature to 131-122ºF.
11. Strain the mixture to remove solids.
12. Add the hydrated gelatin leaves, previously very well drained, and mix with the rods until completely dissolved.
13. Pour the orange mixture over the chocolate base and place in the fridge overnight.

Make chocolate ganache.

1. Chopped finely black chocolate, set aside.
2. Pour the cream into a heat-resistant bowl and place in the water bath. Leave until it takes temperature but without boiling.
3. Remove from the heat and add chopped chocolate, mix until smooth.
4. Pour in an airtight container and let cool completely at room temperature for 2 hours.
5. Refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight.

Decorate the tart.

1. Introduce the ganache in a pipping bag and use a star piping tube.
2. Decorate the surface with the ganache.
3. Place a few slices of kumquats, flowers and a some tangerine sprouts.
4. Serve.

Notes

• The tart is made in a (24.5 cm diameter) 9,6 inches ring pastry.
• With this amount of ingredients (filling), you can make this tart and 2 small glasses.
• Can you omit the Cointreau? Yes, no problem. The result will be just as wonderful.
• Do not brush the base of the tart with egg at the end of the baking, otherwise the filling will not "grab" and skid on the base when setting.
• If you use another variety of chocolate that is not 70%, remember that the proportions with respect to the heavy cream vary depending on this. Otherwise the final consistency will not be the same. I told you the proportions of different chocolates in this post.
• To decorate the tart I used two pipping tubes; Wilton 4B (smaller) and Wilton 6B (larger).
• Kumquats can be replaced with candied orange if you prefer.
• You can use that variety of edible flower you want.
• Tangerine sprouts, of course, are not essential.
• Preservation: We can keep it refrigerated in an airtight container for 4-5 days.

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• Apricot
• Black Chocolate
• Cacao powder
• Kumquat
• Orange
• Tangerine sprouts