Baking | Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart GF…everyone needs a chocolate hug!

“When you select the right kind of chocolate it is like giving your insides a hug. Everyone needs a chocolate hug”
Jean Kelsey

Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart for times when you need a little more chocolate in your life. I know I just shared a chocolate cheesecake a few days ago, yet while doing that, I remembered this tart. How could I not have shared this too? So much chocolate, so little time!! This is a particular favourite since it has two things that I use most while baking. Yes indeed, oats and walnuts! Add to it brown sugar and ghee/clarified butter, and magic is guaranteed!It’s another simple fuss free recipe but delivers a sinful punch. I use a cookie dough for the biscuit base. Feel free to bake mini pies like those above, or cookies as below, with the dough instead if you like, maybe top them with a ganache. I really enjoyed making the Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart. I love that recipes are so easily interchangeable, such fun to play around with, It’s not a lot to do actually because the biscuit base/cookie dough is a two step procedure, basically from the jar of one food processor into the bowl of the stand mixer. I use the basic recipe quite often.

It works well each time. This Mascarpone Lime Curd Walnut Oat Tart is testimony. The same cookie dough biscuit base again, topped in a spoon licking good mascarpone & lime curd topping! Hopefully I’ve got you convinced to give the Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart a try. If not this one, then maybe do a variation on it!

Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart

Dark, divine, delicious is how this tart turned out to be topped with dark chocolate ganache! A healthy biscuit base makes the Dark Chocolate Walnut Oat Tart even better. You can make cookies with the same dough, as also use different fillings to top the tart.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 2 hours hrs 30 minutes mins

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 2 tarts {7" each}

Ingredients

  

Oat Walnut Cookie Base

• 100 g oats
• 85 g walnuts
• 85 g brown sugar
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 40 g clarified butter/ghee chilled
• 1 small egg cold
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Dark Chocolate Filling

• 300 g 70% dark couverture chocolate
• 175 g single cream
• 30 ml full fat milk

Instructions

 

Oat Walnut Cookie Base

• Preheat the oven to 180C.
• Place oats, walnut halves, brown sugar and baking soda in jar of chopper. Blend in short bursts until you get a uniform brown sugar like consistency, just until it feels like moist breadcrumbs.
• Don't overwork the blender or the walnuts will release oil.
• Transfer to bowl of stand mixer, flat mixer attachment, add the clarified butter/ghee, egg and vanilla extract and mix at speed 4 until it comes together like cookie dough.
• Line the base of the tart tins with parchment paper. Divide the cookie dough between the two. Work up t the edges, and then flatten the base.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes, then cool completely on cookie rack.

Dark Chocolate Filling

• Warm the chocolate with the cream in the microwave, agitate it with a balloon whisk, added a splash of milk, agitate it a bit more. {Agitate means to whisk briskly until smooth & glossy}
• Once it chilled in the fridge for 30 minutes turned it into the baked shell, and let it set for about 2-3 hours.
• Top with dark chocolate shavings and dust with cocoa before serving.