Chocolate sweetcrust pastry
This simplified sweetcrust pastry gets its chocolate flavour simply from cocoa powder, added towards the end of kneading.
Chocolate aficionados will enjoy using this in all sorts of recipes that call for sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée).
Chocolate aficionados will enjoy using this in all sorts of recipes that call for sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée).
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Last modified on: July 4th 2018
Keywords for this recipe:For 700 g, you will need:
- 1
1 cup butter - 2
2⁄3 cup icing sugar - 3
½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt - 4
¼ cup egg ( How to... ) - 5
2 cups flour - 6
2 tablespoons powdered cocoa
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 16 min. | 16 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Put into a mixer bowl: 1 cup butter cut into small pieces, 2⁄3 cup icing sugar and ½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt.
Mix together on slow speed until evenly mixed (pastry cooks say "to cream", as the consistency becomes like a cream).
Mix together on slow speed until evenly mixed (pastry cooks say "to cream", as the consistency becomes like a cream).
Stage 2 - 3 min.
Add ¼ cup egg and mix again.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Finish by adding 2 cups flour and 2 tablespoons powdered cocoa all at once, then knead for a few seconds until evenly mixed.
Stop the mixer as soon as the dough is ready; it is important not to over-knead it.
Stop the mixer as soon as the dough is ready; it is important not to over-knead it.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
Weigh out the dough into pieces of 10-12 ounces (250-300 grams). Shape into balls, then flatten into "cakes" and wrap in plastic film.
Refrigerate until needed or freeze for later.
Refrigerate until needed or freeze for later.
Remarks
You can use this as the base for simple chocolate biscuits: make them more indulgent by adding chocolate chips to the dough at the end of kneading.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 3,264 Kcal or 13,666 Kj | 40 gr | 368 gr | 182 gr |
| 121 % | 11 % | 26 % | 20 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 458 Kcal or 1,918 Kj | 6 gr | 52 gr | 25 gr |
| 17 % | 2 % | 4 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 700 g : 2.51 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
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This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Nanou's chocolate cake, Fruit crumble, Franche-Comté sticks, Oat financiers for Louise, French Family Cake, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tomato tatin, Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, How to prepare spinach, Walnut short bread, Chocolate mousse, ... All |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Almond cream or frangipane, Stuffed prunes, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, Marzipan (almond paste), Gâteau Nantais, ... All |
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Corsican tarts, Naan, Surprise eggs, Stuffed cabbage leaves, Breton galettes (pancakes), ... All |
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