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Gluten-Free Chocolate Gingerbread Tarts

Homemade gluten-free pastry with a lovely hint of ginger filled with a rich creamy chocolate ganache studded with stem ginger.
Prep Time45 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Chilling time2 hours
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: British
Servings: 8 people
Calories: 605kcal

Ingredients

Ginger Pastry Crust

  • 140 g sweet rice flour plus extra flour for dusting
  • 125 g sorghum flour
  • 75 g almond flour
  • 25 g ground flaxseeds
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • 125 g unsalted butter directly from the fridge
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 2 eggs + 1 yolk lightly beaten
  • pinch of salt

Chocolate Ginger Ganache

  • 200 ml whipping cream
  • 1 tablespoon light muscovado sugar
  • 1 teaspoon five spice powder
  • 100 g dark chocolate
  • 100 g milk chocolate
  • 3 balls stem ginger diced

Instructions

Pastry Crust

  • In a large mixing bowl whisk together the sweet rice flour, sorghum flour, almond flour, chia seeds and ginger.
  • Slice the butter very thinly and add to the flour. Then rub the mixture between fingertips until roughly shorn and crumbly.
  • Whisk in the caster sugar and then pour in the eggs.
  • Bring the dough together using a wooden spoon at first if you like and then your hands. If the dough is still too dry and crumbly then add a little extra whole milk.
  • Turn the pastry out on to the work surface and knead very briefly into a ball until the dough is cohesive and slightly sticky.
  • Wrap the dough in baking parchment and place in the fridge for 30 minutes - 1 hour to chill before rolling out.
  • Pre-heat the oven to 190°C / 170°C fan / gas mark 5.
  • Cut two large pieces of baking parchment, 2½ inches wider than the size you need to roll the pastry out to.
  • Halve the pastry disc to make it easier to roll out then place between the parchment sheets.
  • Using a long rolling pin roll out the pastry into a round until it is about 5mm thick.
  • Using a pasty cutter, cut the dough into as many rounds as will fit. You will have to do this in batches.
  • Peel away the baking parchment and use the rolling pin to lift the pastry rounds and drape over the tart tins.
  • Fit the pastry into the tart tins, patching up any cracking with excess pastry. Place the tart tins on a baking tray in the fridge whilst you roll out the pastry for the rest of the tarts.
  • Chill the pastry crusts for at least an hour in the fridge (or 10 minutes in the freezer).
  • Remove and baking parchment over the pastry crusts and fill each with baking beans.
  • Place the baking trays with the tart tins on top in the middle of the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and discard the parchment and baking beans.
  • Take the saved egg yolk from making the pastry and whisk it lightly in a small bowl. Using a pastry brush, brush the egg yolk all over the surface of the pastry and up the insides and on the edges.
  • Place back in the oven for 5 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and let rest for a few minutes whilst preparing the filling.

Chocolate Ginger Ganache

  • Heat the whipping cream with the muscovado sugar and five-spice powder until just below boiling point. Remove from the heat and leave to cool for 1 minute so it doesn’t scorch the chocolate.
  • Pour the cream over the chocolate and stir together until all the chocolate has melted and formed a thick ganache with the cream.
  • Stir in the diced stem ginger.
  • Spoon the ganache into the tart shells and place in the fridge to chill for at least 2 hours until the chocolate ganache has set.
  • Decorate with gold leaf and bring up to room temperature to serve.

Notes

The eggs used in this recipe are medium size, 60g with shell and 50g without shell. If you can't get hold of medium eggs I suggest you weigh the amount.

Nutrition

Calories: 605kcal | Carbohydrates: 59g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 20g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 103mg | Sodium: 31mg | Potassium: 266mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 27g | Vitamin A: 825IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 72mg | Iron: 3mg