Eggless Chocolate Tartlets :
Filling of fresh Whipped Cream and Mango pulp with fresh seasonal fruits topping
After many- many days of chocolate making and reading, learning and experimenting , I gradually entered into Cake decoration. From being a Teacher to a Hobby Photographer to a Chocolatier and now a Cake decorator...have been venturing into different hues of life. And my latest form is of a Blogger. Have posted two posts earlier but not dessert related. And as my blog's title suggests I am not going to restrict myself to only food based blogging. Kids had summer break and my kitchen was filled with divine smell of all sort of food and I was exclusively baking and cooking for my two lovely kids and my hubby. And imagine what...the happiest of the lot was my dearest darling hubby...poor fella had been deprived of everything sweet and also cheese based food till then.
On 30th June it was my mom's 60th B'day and she is a pure vegetarian and does not like cakes a lot. Though she is not in the same town but thought of making something special to mark her special day. Well I got hold of my all time favorite Baking Encyclopedia and searched for something new which was less sugary and had some fruits to it. Finally zeroed in on one recipe, which was mini fruit tartlets. But that recipe called for one egg white though but i wanted to give it a twist by making it eggless and adding some cocoa powder to it. So searched for eggless white tarts recipe and followed Tarla Dalal's recipe.
Had though made tarts earlier too but it was always without cocoa content.
After some new twists to recipe i finally prepared some tartlets and here is the recipe which is a new version of how I made it.Though it tasted great but the only thing which needed correction for my next batch is the crust. The crust this time was little thick.
But still am sharing the pics and the recipe here for you all who are looking for eggless Tartlets. The filling which i had used was a fresh cream whipped by adding little icing sugar to it and then added half pureed mango to it. Which tasted great. and then decorated it with some seasonal fruits. I had some Kiwis, Apples and mangoes in my refrigerator...so decorated it with the same.
Here is my version of the recipe :
Ingredients :
For the Crust : 1 Cup maida ( all purpose flour)
1/2 Cup of wheat flour (Atta ), if you want to exclude adding this flour can take maida too )
1/4 Cup Cocoa powder
a pinch of salt
3/4 cup of butter, (at the room temperature and if using salted butter then omit the salt )
1/3 Cup of firmly packed brown sugar ( grounded)
2-3tbsp of chilled water for the binding.
Combine the Butter, Cocoa powder and salt together. And gradually sift over the flour. Mix it all and rub with fingers. Gradually add little water. Wrap it in a cling foil and refrigerate for 20 minutes minimum.
Roll the dough to the to the required thickness , just to form the base to hold the filling. Line the tart pans with the dough. Preheat the oven at 180ºC and bake it for 20 mins. or until firm. Let it cool down and then remove from the pan. Tartlet shells are ready. You can make it a few days in advance too and store it in an airtight container.
For the filling : 1 cup of heavy cream
1 tbsp icing sugar
1/4 cup of mango pulp (sieved)
2-3 drops of mango essence
Whip (using the hand held mixer) the cream for 2 mins and add the icing sugar to it and whip again for a minute. Then add essence and the pulp to it. Whip again.The filling for the tart is ready.
Fill the tart shells as per the requirement and then decorate it with the finely sliced fruits
