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raspberry and mascarpone tarts

servings
4

method

A lovely, summery dessert.

Preheat your oven to 170°C/325°F/gas 3. Grease four 10cm loose-bottomed tart tins with a little butter. Divide the pastry into four. Roll out each quarter to the thickness of a £1 coin, then line the tins with the pastry. Chill for 20 minutes in the fridge. Cover each pastry case with greaseproof paper, fill with rice or dried beans, and bake blind in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.

Remove the cases from the oven, tip out the rice or beans and take out the lining. Place the cases back in the oven and bake for a further 5 minutes until golden brown. Take the cases out and let them cool down completely.

Whip the yoghurt, mascarpone, icing sugar and orange zest in a mixing bowl until light and shiny. Keep it in the fridge until the pastry cases are cool.

Divide the creamy mix between the cooled pastry cases and level with a spoon. Place the raspberries lightly on the cream – no need to push. Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water until it has completely melted.

Carefully remove the hot bowl and drizzle each tart with chocolate. Serve straight away or keep in the fridge for later.

Tip: Strawberries or blackberries on top of the tarts will be delicious too.

ingredients

• butter, for greasing
• 1 x 500g pack of sweet shortcrust pastry
• rice or dried beans
• 100ml natural yogurt
• 250g mascarpone cheese
• 3 tablespoons icing sugar
• zest of ½ orange
• 250g raspberries
• 100g good-quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)

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1. by Zoe on Mon 26 Mar 2012 @ 16:37

how long does this process take in total + ooooh this looks yummy :3

2. by Lana on Sun 07 Aug 2011 @ 16:59

Tamsin.. you are very strange. Milk is milk, it was made for drinking and a good source of calcium. Where else would we be able to get our calcium from?.. cheese no. Eggs no. Butter no. So, lets move on from the hippie era and eat meat and dairy! Great recipe once again!

3. by isa on Tue 02 Aug 2011 @ 00:15

i will use this recipe to try to melt a particular man's heart :) it looks amazing.

4. by Patricia on Mon 01 Aug 2011 @ 19:39

That looks delicious...and seems fairly easy to make. I think I'll give it a try while raspberries are in season :-)

5. by TAmsin on Mon 01 Aug 2011 @ 17:44

It looks so harmless sitting there all innocent and creamy doesn't it?? I applaud your efforts to be ethical and all that Jamie but surely you know that one cannot really be ethical, environmentally friendly, an animal lover or care about peoples health unless one is advocating living on a plant based diet. It really upsets me when i look at a recipe and find that it says 'butter for greasing'....are you aware that the calf, who's milk was stolen from him/her, is either now gone to Europe somewhere to suffer the same fate as a dairy cow or in a veal farm or in a can of dog/cat meat???? MILK IS FOR BABY COWS JAMIE SO STOP PROMOTING IT --- PLEASE !!!!!

6. by Micki on Mon 01 Aug 2011 @ 17:02

Hmmm... This sounds delicious and will be quite a challenge for me to "veganize" it. Thanks for sharing, Jamie!

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