Chocolate Tart Recipe for Valentines Day

Posted on by Pippa Lund

Happy Valentines day to all! Here is a lovely Chocolate Tart Recipe for Valentines Day.

We hope you are spoilt rotten but also spoil the one you love!

As tradition goes many will spoil their loved ones with gifts and romantic gestures or proclaim their undying love as a secret admirer.

Valentine’s Day has been around for centuries, and created by the mysterious St. Valentine during the 3rd century A.D in Rome.

Interesting Fact: Approximately 150 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas.

Why not make these delicious chocolate tarts for dessert tonight to spoil the one you adore and all it takes is 30mins!

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INGREDIENTS

  • 200g plain chocolate , melted
  • 50g plain flour
  • 500g shortcrust pastry pack , rolled out to the thickness of a 20p piece and used to line 4 x 10cm tart tins
  • 4 eggs
  • coco & icing sugar for dusting
  • 75g butter , melted
  • 100g golden caster sugar

METHOD

Heat the oven to 180 degrees

Bake the pastry blind for 12 minutes

Mix 3/4 of the melted chocolate with the eggs, butter, sugar and flour

Pour into the pastry cases

Bake for 6-8 minutes until just set

Decorate with the remaining chocolate and dust with cocoa

Add the heart by using icing sugar

Enjoy!

XOXO