Chocolate decorations for a chocolate tart
By: Paul Young From: Good Food Live
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Chocolate decorations for a chocolate tart
- Prep time:
- 30 mins, plus at least 30 mins setting
- Cook time:
- 10 mins
- Serves:
- 4
Sophisticated chocaholics will adore Paul Young's chocolate tart confection, eye-catchingly topped with home-made chocolate spirals
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids
- 100g liquid glucose
- 40 ml warm water
- 1 chocolate tart
- icing sugar, for dusting
Method
1. Melt the chocolate in a bowl suspended above simmering water to 50°C.2. Warm the glucose in a saucepan with the water.
3. Add the glucose mixture to the chocolate and mix well until smooth.
4. Place into a plastic food bag to cool and set thoroughly into a paste.
5. Take the chocolate tart and place onto a serving plate or tray.
6. Take pieces of the chocolate paste and knead until soft and pliable.
7. Roll into long thin cone shapes and wrap these shapes around a clean wooden spoon or paintbrush handle which has been oiled with vegetable oil to form spirals.
8. Carefully slide the spirals off the handle and place aside in a cool place for at least 30 minutes to set. If need be, make these 2-3 days before use and store in an airtight container but not in the refrigerator.
9. Place the chocolate spirals on the tart in a stacking fashion and dust with icing sugar.









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