Chocolate Pie

Name: Chocolate Pie
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 125 g butter; 150 g wheat flour; 3 tbsp icing sugar; 3 tbsp cocoa powder; 1 tsp fine salt; 2 egg yolks; 300 g milk chocolate (about 30% cocoa); 100 g dark chocolate (about 55% cocoa); 1 vanilla pod; whipped cream; flake salt

A traditional and much loved dessert, this delicious chocolate tart is an intense and delightful chocolatey dessert that will surely impress your dinner party guests. Perfect for serving at any holiday celebration or feast - or even enjoyed by you and yours on a quiet evening. Finished with a crispy tart base filled with a gooey, soft chocolate ganache.

Ingredients

Butter	125 g
Wheat flour	150 g
Icing sugar	3 tbsp
Cocoa powder	3 tbsp
Fine salt	1 tsp
Egg yolks	2

Chocolate Ganache

Milk chocolate (about 30% cocoa)	300 g
Dark chocolate (about 55% cocoa)	100 g
Vanilla pod	1
Whipped cream

Garnish

Flake salt

Instructions

Step 1

Blend butter, flour, icing sugar, cocoa and salt in a food processor and blend for approximately 20 seconds - until the mixture is crumbled.

Step 2

Add egg yolks and knead quickly to create a dough. Put the dough into a loose-bottomed pie tin (approximately 22 cm in diameter) and press it well up the edges.

Step 3

Place the pie base covered in the refrigerator for approximately ½ hour.

Step 4

Prick the bottom with a fork and put the pie base in the middle of the oven to cook. Let it cool down on a baking rack.

Step 5

Chop the chocolate coarsely and put it in a bowl. Cut open the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds. Put the vanilla pod, seeds, whipped cream and syrup in a saucepan and bring to the boil on steady heat, stirring.