Berries and Chocolate Tart

So I know berries are supposed to be summer fruit, but my favourite tart for fall has to have berries...
This is a simple recipe that goes great with coffee on a Sunday, or as a desert after a  meat-dinner.

It takes about half an hour to prepare,  fifteen minutes for the base to bake in the oven and another hour for it to chill in the fridge!


You 'll need:

For the pastry:                                                            For the filling:

• 175 g butter                                                      100 g dark chocolate
• 50 g caster sugar                                               500 g full fat  crème fraîche
• 1 egg yolk                                           
• 250 g plain flour                                      

 For the topping:

• 750 g summer berries (mixed or not)
• 2-3 tbsp orange liqueur (you can skip this, but, man, it adds flavour!)
• 2 tbsp powdered  sugar
• zest of a small orange (smell and flavour)

 And...

• 23cm loose-bottomed tart tin

 In your mixing bowl, take the butter and sugar and beat together until the mixture becomes light and fluffy. Then add in the egg yolk and continue until it's mixture is smooth! Now add the flour and again bring the mixture together. Afterwards wrap it the bowl with plastic wrap and let the mixture rest in the fridge for 25 minutes.
 Preheat the oven to 200C.
 and line the base and sides of the tin. Then put it back in the fridge for another 10-15 minutes.
Again take the pastry out of the fridge let it sit for a minute and put to the oven to bake for 10-15 minutes, until it's golden and crisp.

While that's in the oven, that's your chance to melt the chocolate. Put it in the microwave for 1-2 minutes or use a  bain marie. ( put the chocolate in a tin over a pot of almost bowling water to melt it)

Once you take the pastry out of the oven let it cool down for a couple of minutes and then apply  the chocolate on top evenly in a thick coat. Don't forget the sides as well! Then put it in the fridge for another 10 minutes!


Now beat the crème fraîche until it becomes fluffy and then put it on top of the chocolate!  

1. Let it in the fridge for another 10 minutes before topping off with the berries so that they don't sink in. Sprinkle the berries with the liqueur and decorate with the orange zest! Keep it in the fridge until serve!


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2. Add some berries and top off with another layer of  crème fraîche, or chocolate, or both repeating the process we did above! And then add some berries to decor the top, sprinkle with the liqueur and the zest and again keep in the fridge until serve!
For this one you will need some more chocolate, I' m guessing another 70 g and some more crème, I'd say another 250g. For this one you need to make your layers thinner to fit into the tin or use a bigger tin! 
x,
Maria