by Ravneet Gill from Sugar, I Love You: Knockout recipes to celebrate the sweeter things in life (Pavilion Books) Photography: Ellis Parrinder
Using a mix of cereal and melted chocolate for the base of a tart brings out my inner child. The base here is so madly addictive that it’s quite hard to not eat it before pressing it into the tart case. (Perhaps it’s better to make a double batch of the base so you can do just that.)
The use of a swirled-through miso caramel means that you don’t need to sprinkle sea salt flakes on top.
Makes a 20cm (8in) tart
Ingredients:
For the tart case
100g dark chocolate, chopped
40g unsalted butter, melted
30g roasted hazelnuts, lightly crushed 90g bran flakes cereal, lightly crushed pinch of sea salt flakes
For the miso caramel
35g caster sugar 7g/½ tbsp unsalted butter
65ml double cream 1 tbsp white miso paste
For the dark chocolate ganache
200g double cream 60g milk chocolate, chopped
90g dark chocolate, chopped
Method
Start with the tart case. Melt the chocolate and butter together over a bain-marie (a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, making sure the bowl does not touch the water. Leave to melt, then allow to cool to room temperature) - or in short bursts in the microwave.
In a large bowl, mix together the hazelnuts, bran flakes and salt. Pour in the melted chocolate mixture and stir well.
Press into a 20cm (8in) tart tin, into the bottom and up the sides. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t reach to the very top of the tin, you want just enough to give you a good edge of roughly 2.5cm (1in) deep. Place in the fridge to chill for up to an hour.
For the miso caramel, make a direct caramel in a saucepan by placing it over a medium heat, sprinkling in the sugar and letting it melt to a dark caramel. Add the butter and whisk well, then pour in the cream and let it bubble for a minute.
Remove from the heat and whisk in the miso paste. Set aside for a few minutes. When the caramel has cooled slightly, pour it into a heatproof dish and allow to cool further. We want it to be at pouring consistency but not hot.
To make the ganache, in the same pan that you’ve just poured the caramel from, add the cream and heat until steaming.
Place both the chocolates into a large heatproof bowl and pour over the hot cream. Let it sit for a minute before stirring with a whisk from the middle outwards until melted and smooth. Pour into the chilled tart shell and let it sit for 2 minutes.
Take the miso caramel and drizzle thickly all over the ganache. Use a butter knife to drag the caramel through the ganache to form swirls (or use the bottom 2mm of a skewer instead of the butter knife), then place in the fridge to set for 4 hours.
This will keep in the fridge for 2–3 days, but is best eaten as soon as the ganache has set.
