Chocolate & Orange Tart

Chocolate & Orange Tart

20 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

50 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

Pastry:
• 1 cup white Flour
• 75 grams Margarine
• 3 tablespoons Water
Filling:
• 50 grams margarine
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup white flour
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 70 grams ground almonds
• rind and juice from one orange

Instructions

Pastry:
1. Cut, then rub margarine into flour until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
2. Add water and mix to a soft dough.
3. Roll out pastry and line a small (approximately 18cm) greased flan tin.
4. Save pastry trimmings
Filling:
5. Cream margarine and sugar in a bowl.
6. Fold in flour, cocoa, baking powder and ground almonds.
7. Finely grate orange rind, and add with juice from orange.
8. Mix together well.
9. Spread mixture evenly onto pastry base.
10. Roll out pastry trimmings into six thin strips, twist and place in a lattice pattern on top of the tart.
11. Bake at 190 degrees C for 25-30 minutes (place on tray in lower half of oven).
12. Slice when cold.