Chocolate and Blood Orange Curd Tarts
 
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A delicious dessert with a decadent chocolate and blood orange curd filling
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 1 --- sheet of all-butter puff pastry, (like, Fillo Factory), 9”x 9”, defrosted
  • 6 oz. bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped
  • 4 oz. cold butter (1 stick)
  • 3 TBSP. sugar
  • 1 lrg. egg
  • 2 lrg. egg yolks
  • ¾ cup blood orange curd (see separate recipe)
Instructions
  1. Open the puff pastry package, take out one piece, and return the second piece to the refrigerator. Place the puff pastry on a lightly floured surface, unroll it, and sprinkle it with some more flour. Lightly roll it out into a 12” square. From this, cut out four circles; each about 6” in diameter. Lift each circle and carefully line four, 4½” mini tart pans. Prick the bottom of the puff pastry all over with a fork. Place the tart pans on a sheet pan and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
  2. Preheat the oven to 400º F.
  3. While the crust is cooling, melt the chocolate and the butter over a double boiler. Cool slightly. In a separate bowl, beat together the egg, the egg yolks, and the sugar, then whisk them into the chocolate mixture until velvety smooth.
  4. Remove the tart pans from the refrigerator. Line the tart shells with square pieces of parchment paper, add some ceramic weights, and blind bake them for about 10 minutes. If you don’t have ceramic pie weights, use some dry beans. Remove from the oven and fill the crusts two-thirds of the way up with the chocolate mixture (you will have some chocolate mixture left over, which can be frozen for another day). Bake them for another 4-5 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a rack. Once completely cooled, spread the orange curd over the chocolate in as thick a layer as desired and serve!
Notes
You can also omit the orange curd, if you want. If you go this route, fill the tarts to the top with the chocolate mixture, and dust them when cooled with good quality cocoa powder, then top with whipped cream and serve.

Optional: Decorate the top of the tarts with candied blood orange slices!
Recipe by Marilena's Kitchen at https://marilenaskitchen.com/chocolate-and-blood-orange-curd-tarts/