Milk Chocolate and Walnut Tart – Recipe and Super Food Ideas Giveaway!
Apr 21
Milk Chocolate and Walnut Tart
Recipe: Michelle Noerianto
Photography: Ben Dearnley
Serves 10
Prep 30 minutes (plus 30 minutes refrigeration)
Cook 27 minutes
1/3 cup caster sugar
1¾ cups plain flour
190g butter, chilled, chopped
3 eggs
1 tablespoon chilled water
2½ cups walnuts, toasted
½ x 200g block milk chocolate, chopped
½ cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
double cream and icing sugar mixture, to serve
1. Reserve 2 teaspoons caster sugar. Place flour, 125g butter and remaining caster sugar in a food processor. Process until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add 1 egg. Pulse to combine. Gradually add chilled water and pulse until dough just comes together and forms a ball, adding extra water if necessary. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Press together to form a disc. Wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan-forced. Roll pastry out on a lightly floured surface until 3mm thick (30cm round). Line a 3cm-deep, 24cm (base) round loose-based fluted flan tin with pastry. Trim excess. Re-roll excess pastry. Cut into a 9cm x 24cm rectangle. Cut lengthways into nine 1cm-wide strips.
3. Place walnuts on a baking tray. Bake for 3 to 4 minutes or until toasted. Set aside to cool. Place chocolate in a glass or ceramic heatproof bowl. Place over a saucepan of simmering water. Cook, stirring occasionally with a metal spoon, for 2 to 3 minutes or until melted and smooth. Set aside to cool slightly.
4. Place walnuts, brown sugar and remaining butter in a food processor. Pulse until coarsely chopped. Add vanilla, melted chocolate and remaining eggs. Pulse to combine. Spread walnut mixture into pastry case. Smooth top.
5. Arrange pastry strips in a lattice pattern over pie. Sprinkle lattice with reserved sugar. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. Set aside for 10 minutes to cool. Dust with icing sugar mixture and serve with double cream.
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Super Food Ideas is on the search for Australia’s Best Pie. Enter your recipe and you could WIN $10,000! Get the May issue for all the details and go to www.taste.com.au/bestpie2012 to enter!
Entries close 15th May, so best get cookin’!
To get your creative juices flowing, I have three copies of the May issue of Super Food Ideas to send out to three readers! All you need to do is comment below with your favourite pie – savoury or sweet!
How do you win??
- LIKE Mummy Smiles Facebook page HERE
- Comment below with your favourite pie recipe. I don’t mind if it’s savoury or sweet – I love ‘em all!
- Entry is open to Australian and residents only
- One entry per person
- Entries will close at midnight (Brisbane time) – Wednesday 25th April, 2012.
- Winners will be chosen at random using random.org and will be announced on the blog. I will email the winner and if I do not receive a response within 48 hours, I will re-draw.
I love a good ol plain mince pie with flaky pastry and a dollop of tomato sauce and eating the mince with a spoon first and saving the pastry for last
That is a tricky one. I love an old fashioned apple pie with warm home made custard or a chunky steak and bacon pie with a layer of cheese on the top. Both delicious!
My favourite savoury pie would have to be a chicken & vegetable, & my favourite sweet one would be a lemon meringue
now I want to make them lol
Milk Chocolate and Walnut sounds delicious — a good way to use up those leftover Easter Eggs. My favourite sweet pie is Mulberry and favourite savoury is Spinach and Fetta (or maybe that’s strictly a quiche!)
My favourite is apple, with lashings of chantilly cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon!
I will never forget tasting a warmed up pecan pie from a real honest to goodness roadside diner in America in the early 90′s when I was a tennager. OMG! It was the bomb. Hmm I’m hungry now – might go look up pecan pie recipes to make this weekend!!
Oooh now a single pie recipe isn’t as much fun as a night of pies!
Lets see well start the night off with a plain meat pie for the men in my family who don’t do vegatbles, for those of us who do we’ll have a meat pie with some veg added in (all chunky steak of course if i’m making it!) Follow that with mini apple and mini blueberry pies, add to that with whipped cream, warm home made custard and a good movie!
That one looks good Nat!
My fav pie is a good old fashioned rhubarb and apply pie, served with a dollop of King Island cream. Yummo!
I love chicken and sweetcorn or leek pies. Yum!!!
Can’t go wrong with a curry mince pie, yummo! Though I do really want to try chicken and leek pies!
Mine definitely has to be chicken, mushroom and leek pie. My family always go back for seconds! Then why not top it off with a traditional apply pie with ice cream and custard!
Sweet a Apricot danish with a dollop of custard sealed withing flaky pastry and a hot coffee will be the one that does it for me.
I love most pies!! Favourites are hot apple pie with nice cold icecream, and I don’t mind steak and kidney.
I have the best chicken and leek pie recipe. It’s my fav.
Hawaiian shortcake pie with pineappe & banana yummy!!!
Congratulations to the three lucky winners!
Deanna Buckley, Nina Downes and Emily
Please send me your address details to natalie@mummysmiles.com so we can have your Super Food Ideas magazine sent straight out to you!
Thanks everyone for such mouth-watering pie ideas! I’d encourage you to enter them into the competition – imagine winning $10,000!!!