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Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart and Caramelised Peanuts

Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart and Caramelised Peanuts
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Recipe by: Vincent Gadan

Ingredients

Sweet dough
  • 90gunsalted butter
  • 50gcaster sugar
  • 1 pinchsalt
  • 1vanilla bean, seeds scrapped and bean discarded
  • 1egg
  • 20galmond meal
  • 160gplain flour
Salted caramel
  • 115gcaster sugar
  • 45gglucose
  • 100gpouring cream
  • 7.5gsalt
  • 20gbutter
  • 1-2tablespoons roasted and unsalted peanuts
Chocolate ganache
  • 80gpure cream
  • 50gdark chocolate, chopped
  • 25gmilk chocolate, chopped
  • 14g butter
  • Peanut nougatine, to decorate
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Method

    Sweet Dough
    • Cream the butter, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add vanilla bean seeds and beat until fluffy. Add egg and mix to combine. Add almond meal and flour and mix until mixture forms a dough.
    • Place between two sheets of cling wrap, flatten and refrigerate for 2 hours to rest.
    • Flour bench, lay pastry on top and dust again with flour. Roll to a desired thickness and prick well with a fork. Cut rounds with a 12cm cookie cutter and lay into 10cm diameter tartlet cases. Gently press into tins to fit and roll over tartlets with a rolling pin to trim edges. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
    • Bake at 160°C for approximately 20-25 minutes or until golden.
    Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart and Caramelised Peanuts
    • Place sugar and glucose in a saucepan over a medium heat and cook, agitating mixture until sugar is dissolved. Simmer until sugars become a light brown caramel.
    • Deglaze with cream, add salt and remove from heat. Allow to cool slightly and whisk in butter until smooth and glossy
    • Half fill tartlet cases with salted caramel and top with 1-2 teaspoons peanuts. Chill to set.
    • For ganache, pour cream into a saucepan and almost bring to the boil. Add chocolate and stir until smooth. Add butter and mix until well combined. Fill chilled tartlets with ganache and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes to set.
    • Decorate with pieces of peanut nougatine.
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