Bittersweet Chocolate Orange Strawberry Tart … rich & delicious

“Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world’s perfect food.”
Michael Levine

Rich Bittersweet Chocolate Orange Strawberry TartSublime, sweet, seductive … words that can win over the most of us. Bittersweet chocolate paired with sweet scents of orange zest, topped with strawberries in a Digestive biscuit crust – eggless too. I think this might well be a dessert than can please one and all, chocolate lovers that is and tempt the non-lovers too! A Rich Bittersweet Chocolate Orange Strawberry Tart – festive and indulgent for the holiday season!! I made this special tart for Macy’s mBlog Recipe Showcase for which I was invited to share a favourite holiday recipe, with a story alongside. I have an old ‘Digestive biscuit connect’ which I shall share in a bit, though too late for the showcase. Life got the better of me, it’s been busier than usual, and I missed the deadline. Just back from a short ‘happy’ vacation to Tokyo, courtesy Mr PAB who was going there on work and gladly took me along! ’twas like a dream … a bit of which I shall attempt to share soon. In the meantime, this tart is served up here for you dear readers!! It was DELICIOUS and indulgent good! Digestive biscuis have been on my list of favourite biscuits forever, and my first choice always for biscuit bases for tarts and cheesecakes.There was a time, many moons ago, when working with an airline meant regular trips to London. That in turn meant  bags full of delicious goodies including Digestives and Chocolate Digestives. The regular ones were my Mums favourite, though at the time I was quite partial to Walkers Shortbread too. Flight crew who flew overhead New Delhi from London to HKG would often radio in to chat while we manned station ops in the wee hours of the night, and would ask for ‘biscuit wishlists’ as they would stopover in Delhi on the way back. One particular flight crew, who I nicknamed Capt HobNob, made sure he always left a big parcel of HobNobs for me! Those were delicious days, post BOAC ones!!A few years later, shortbread ‘butter alarms‘, carbon footprints and locavore choices came along; an inherent consciousness crept in! Age does that to you I guess! I got ‘food educated‘ and sadly learnt that shortbread was delicious but oh-so-butter laden. My first choice then on were digestive biscuit. IMHO, they make me the perfect pie/tart crust as I don’t have the time to make graham crackers from scratch! I have used Digestives in Chocolate Quark Mousse Tartlets, Strawberry Chocolate Yogurt Mousse, No Bake Strawberry Quark Cheesecake, Apple Brown Sugar Meringue Pies, No Bake Upside Down Mango Quark Cheese Pie What can I say about this beautiful tart … it was just too good to be true {if I may say so myself}. I have kept it eggless as a lot of local readers, being vegetarian, ask me for eggless desserts and bakes. Keeping them in mind, with the holiday season here, time for entertaining, guests, food & fun, I put this tart together. I also kept in mind easily available and mostly ‘there in the pantry‘ ingredients!I love the pairing of chocolate, orange and strawberry. Use a deep, rich, good quality chocolate here. Of course I was rather unsure when I cut it as I didn’t know if it would set well. Luckily for me, the proportions were good and the balance of the filling and tart shell just right. The taste? Délicieux!!

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This recipe is on its way to IndiBloggers food contest …

As I go I wanted to share a little something; two places where PAB has recently been featured. One was in the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar India {was thrilled to see lovely Meeta, Pamela and Mallika there too}, the article on food bloggers called “The Web Culinaries“,and the other a press feature at Lx World, ‘Cakes to Bake‘.
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Deeba @ PAB

About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.

32 thoughts on “Bittersweet Chocolate Orange Strawberry Tart … rich & delicious”

  13. Fruit and Chocolate. So hard to get it right together, and you’ve got it perfected there.

    Bring on the Tokyo Tales! 🙂

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  17. Wow! Deeba, seems like you get strawberries all the time.. 🙂 how nice..
    That tart looks gorgeous.. love the ornate plate and spoon duo..
    To me, the recipe is cool because, it is simple, eggless and it has McVities biscuits!

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  20. Wow! What a strawberry garden you have here in your post. Lovely indeed! I love the Digestive crust too. An all time favorite biscuit will definitely a blast for us. Keep posting!

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  21. hi deepa, loved the recipe but am a li’l confused. it’s a rich-bittersweet-chocolate-orange-strawberry-tart but there was no mention oranges in the recipe. did i miss it?

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  22. I remember your hobnob story, Deeba and now that I’m no longer in London I shall be lamenting like that too! So glad that ‘this little red dot on the map’ actually stocks all those birtish biscuits, I so love McVities, and this post of yours make me yearn for wintry biscuity bakes instead of equator climate!

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  23. Oooh Sweetie, congrats on the exposé in Bazaar India! How cool is that but boy do you deserve it more than anyone!!! And case in point – a decadent orange chocolate ganache?!! Extraordinary and stunning – as usual….

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  25. hey…the tart looks fab…beautiful and luscious … After the silk Orange peel chocolate invasion…I have fallen in love with orange and chocolate…do you think a layer of orange jelly will work…maybe as a surprise element in the centre…hmmmmmmmmm I can imagine the burst of the orange in the chocolate…This is on my to do list. I am going to have to invite people over for dinner…guinea pigs are so needed!
    thanks for giving me something to think about…
    cheers…

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