Recipe

Chocolate Hazelnut Tart with Caramel and Sea Salt

Chocolate Hazelnut Tart with Caramel and Sea Salt
  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Late Winter Tart (Sweet or Savory)
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    oliveoyl's Notes: The tart shell comes from Ina Garten's Apple Crostata recipe. It's my go-to shell and I use it for all my tarts and pies! The filling is adapted from Giada De Laurentiis' recipe for her...

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Serves 10-12

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

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  2. In a large bowl, mix together the sugar and the flour. Add the eggs, hazelnuts, chocolate chips, corn syrup, butter, vanilla, and salt. Stir well. Pour the mixture into the pie crust. Bake for 1 hour.

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  3. Cool the tart for at least 30 minutes, drizzle with caramel sauce and sprinkle with sea salt.

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  1. Place the flour, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse a few times to combine.

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  2. Add the butter and pulse 12 to 15 times, or until the butter is the size of peas. With the motor running, add the 2 tablespoons of ice water all at once through the feed tube. Keep hitting the pulse button to combine, adding more water if needed 1 tablespoon at a time, but stop the machine just before the dough becomes a solid mass.

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  3. Turn the dough onto a well-floured board and form into a disk. Wrap with plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

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  4. Roll out and line tart pan.

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5 Comments on Chocolate Hazelnut Tart with Caramel and Sea Salt

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I didn't post it because the recipe is from Saveur magazine and it is so good I don't want to change anything about it:-) It is online here: http://bit.ly/SB4l3

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Thank you! That looks AMAZING! I've saved it. :)

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I make a similar tart only with a chocolate crust and carmel filling and topped with Sea Salt. You just can't beat sea salt and carmel. Sounds yummy.

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Wow, that sounds heavenly? Did you post the recipe?

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"Heavenly!" not "heavenly?" :)

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