Description: A perfectly enlightening dessert, Arwen’s favourite white chocolate tart, served with fresh berries and dusted with icing sugar.
Submitted by: arisavvy on 2003-11-18 07:46:07
Serves: 5-6
Prep Time: 30-40 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ingredients
2 cups plain shortbread biscuits1/2 cup butter
2 vanilla pods or 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
450ml thickened cream
4 cups (400g) white chocolate
2 tablespoons castor sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mixed berries (raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries) or favourite fruits (mangos, figs, peaches, kiwis and passionfruit are also great)
Icing sugar (optional)
Instructions
Blend shortbread biscuits in blender until a similar consistency to bread crumbs.Melt butter in a saucepan or microwave, then pour into biscuit crumbs.
Spoon mix into a 26cm flan or pie dish and mould it to the sides of the dish to form crust. Place in a freezer.
Cut vanilla pods, scrape out seeds. Put seeds and pods into a saucepan with cream (or add vanilla essence instead of pods and seeds). Heat gently until boiling. Remove pods.
Gradually add white chocolate while continuously stirring, until it melts completely into cream. Be careful because if heated to quickly the chocolate will clump. Set aside to cool for 5 minutes.
When cooled, add castor sugar and mix in both eggs, one at a time.
Pour into shortbread crust and bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees C. Cool.
Mix berries or fruits together and serve chilled on top, or as desired. For a finishing touch, dust with icing sugar.
3 Comments
This is a very good recipe
What are shortbread biscuits? Are they anything like buttermilk biscuits? Or the kind you use to make sausage biscuits or biscuits and gravy?
sort of like the cake you have with strawberry shortcake except without the strawberries