Dark Chocolate Almond Oats Tart

Dark Chocolate Almond Oats Tart, pure bliss. The tart shells here are made with oats & almond flour and the filling divine, silky smooth dark chocolate ganache.Topped with chocolate shards n pomegranate for added flavor!!

Its 5:30 pm and already dark here, winter is setting in, days are getting shorter and my cravings for chocolate is getting intense. Then happened this sensuous dessert, for days like these when you want more chocolate in life. It want time to experiment with ingredients and recipes for a healthy tart crust, time to ditch my regular tart crust and try something new and play. I had been wanting to
play with Oats and almond flour to create a gluten free crust since long but I’m happy I did. The result is just wow, after this gorgeous tart crust oats is favorite baking ingredient now. More of healthy baking is on my mind.

“Chocolate is the best thing that has
happened to world”

Good things come to those who bake, very true.

A simple recipe with amazing result. When I started I was skeptical how it would taste as I had ever tried oats in making tart crust, but I’m very happy the way it has turned out. Beautiful crispy crust, a combination of oats and almonds is simply perfect and I can see me baking with oats more often.

Now let’s get to the best part these super delicious and healthy Dark Chocolate Almond & Oats Tart. These tarts just happened as I was feeling low and needed something to feel good. The crust here is made with oats and almond flour, so I have grinded rolled oats until it resembled semi fine flour. Then add the oats flour, almond flour and rest of the ingredients into a food processor and pulse till everything come together in a form of dough. Chill for dough for some 30 minutes and there we are ready. The oats crust here is very different from the regular crust in terms of texture, flavor and they will not be flaky but are very flavorful & and a lot healthy than the regular APF crust. The dough is delicate to handle, so you can’t roll.

For the filling use the best quality chocolate for best result. I have used Ghirardelli chocolate 60% cocoa, wanted to use more than 70% but you know kids would not be able to handle that bitterness, the more dark the chocolate I love it more. 60% cocoa work fine. The silky smooth chocolate ganache make things absolutely divine. I have topped it up with some chocolate shards and pomegranate. All I can say is the best chocolate tart I have ever had.

I think I’ve excited you enough to try out Dark Chocolate Almond Oats Tart!!

Dark Chocolate Almond Oats Tart

Ingredients for tart

· 1 cup rolled oats

· ¾ cup almond flour

· 60 grams light brown sugar

· ¼ tsp sea salt

· 4 tbsp unsalted butter chilled and cut into cubes

· 1 egg

· 1 tsp vanilla extract
· ½ tsp baking powder 2 tbsp cocoa powder

Ingredients for filling

·
350 grams dark chocolate (60% cocoa)

· 250 grams low fat cream

· 2 tbsp honey

Instructions

· Place the oats into a food processer and pulse till you get semi fine flour. I like that bit of oats in the dough. Add the almond flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa powder and pulse till everything is
mixed well. Add the butter, sugar and egg and pulse till everything is incorporated and starts to come together in a form of dough. Shape in a form of ball, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

· While is dough is chilling let’s make the filling. Place the chocolate in a bowl, heat the cream and pour it over the chocolate,whisk vigorously till you get a silky smooth mixture. Add the honey and whisk well. Set aside.

· Preheat the oven to 350 F.

· Take 4 inches mini tart pans, we need four of them.

· Now the dough has chilled divide it into 4 equal portions. Take one portion and start spreading the dough upto the sides of the pan with your fingers and flatten the base. Repeat with the rest of the pans.

· Bake for 20 minutes and cool completely in the pan itself on the wire racks.

· Once the tarts have cooled completely pour the ganache and let them sit at room temperature for about 1 – 2 hours. Top with some chocolate shards and pomegranates and serve.

Tips:

You can grind the oats into a fine powder if you want. But trust me that semi crushed oats add to the flavor and texture.

The tarts store well in refrigerator covered. Just heat for 10 seconds in microwave and enjoy.

Thanks so much

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