My go-to “looks fancy, but is simple” dessert recipe. You can have most ingredients in the pantry and it’s super easy to pull off. It’s great right out of the oven, but I also love it after chilling it in the fridge overnight as the chocolate hardens again and adds to the texture of the tarte.

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Pear Chocolate Tarte

Prep: 15+15 minutes
Rest: 1 hour
Baking: 30-35 Minuten
Total of 2 hours

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 250 g flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 125 g butter (“a stick and a bit”)
• cold water

For the filling:

• 25 g butter (for the pan)
• 2 + 1 Tbsp sugar
• 100g (1 bar) dark chocolate
• 4 pears (or 2 cans)
• 1 egg
• 125 ml heavy whipping cream

Instructions

For the dough:

1. Dice the butter (~1/2 inch.) Put flour, salt and the butter in a bowl.
2. With the tips of your finger quickly rub the flour into the butter so that you get crumbles.
3. Add 1/2 cup of (ice)cold water and use a (dining) knife to fold in the dough. It’ll start to bind.
4. With your hands form it into a ball. But don’t knead it too much!
5. Wrap it in cling foil or in a ziplock bag and put it int he frigde for an hour.

For the filling:

1. Pre-heat oven to 190 C (375 F)
2. Butter a pie pan (like the ones for pumpkin pies). Add 2 Tbsp sugar to cover the buttered pan.
3. Stretch out the dough and roll it out in the pan to create the crust.
4. Hack chocolate into smaller pieces (I always do it how I feel, sometimes I want a nice even chocolate layer below the pears, sometimes I crave some chunks in there.) Distribute the chocolate on the dough.
5. Cut pears into fine slices and put them on top of the chocolate.
6. Mix the egg with the cream and 1 Tbsp of the sugar. Pour the mix on top of the pears.
7. Bake for 30-35 mins.