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Vegan chocolate tart.
Recently, the chocolate brand Valrhona, famous among pastry chefs, gave me a challenge. They asked me to make a vegan version of a Mississippi mud pie with their new vegan milk chocolate: Amatika.
A Mississippi mud pie consists of a pie crust, a brownie, a chocolate cream and whipped cream on top.
The main challenge for me definitely was the pie crust. How do you make one without butter? Making pastry without eggs is also quite a nightmare.
Fortunately, some alternatives exist.
Tips to succeed when making
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For butter, I opted for Earth balance butter. This was the one with the most "butter like" taste and texture. For eggs, I opted for "Just eggs" which is an egg alternative made from bung beans. You would not see the difference if I did not tell you they are vegans!
To replace whipped cream , I decided to use Aquafaba. Aquafaba is the liquid that you can find in canned chickpea. This brown liquid, when whipped for a long time, becomes white and takes the appearance of meringue !
Aquafaba does not stay whipped for a very long time. Right after you whip it, it has to be piped on the tart and eaten the same day. You can also decide not to use it and have a simple and still delicious chocolate tart.
Hope you enjoy this recipe! You can see a video of the assembly on my Instagram reel here.
Vegan chocolate tart
Equipment
- 20 cm tart ring
- Hand mixer
- mixing blows
Ingredients
Vegan cocoa sugar dough
- 105 g Earth balance butter
- 15 g valrhona cocoa powder
- 80 g icing sugar
- 25 g almond flour
- 190 g all purpose flour
- 2 g salt (half a tsp)
- 45 g egg substitute (just egg)
Dark chocolate brownie
- 150 g dark chocolate (Manjari from Valrhona)
- 110 g Earth balance butter
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 60 g brown sugar
- 120 g "Just egg" egg substitute
- 45 g all purpose flour
- 20 g almond flour
"Milk" chocolate ganache
- 220 g coconut milk (15-17% fat)
- 300 g Amatika milk chocolate
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Vegan meringue
- 200 g Chickpea aquafaba (liquid from canned chickpea)
- 200 g icing sugar
Instructions
Vegan cocoa sugar dough
- Use the flat beater of your stand mixer to whisk together almond flour, vegan butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder and salt at low speed. Once homogeneous, add egg substitute little by little. Once all egg is incorporated, add flour little by little. Stop right when there are no more dry crumb but do not overmix. If you knead the dough for too long (even with the flat beater!), it can retract during baking. Remove from the bowl. Cover your dough with saran wrap and let it rest for at least 2 hours in the fridge. On parchment paper, spread the 2/3 of your dough until you reach desired thickness(2‑3 mm). Grease your 20 cm large tart ring. Use your tart ring to cut into the dough, discard the dough outside of the ring.Remove the remaining 1/3 of the dough from the fridge. On a lightly floured bench, spread it, aiming for a 2-3 mm thickness before cutting 2 cm large bands of it. Line these bands of dough onto the outside of your tart ring and stick them to the bottom of your dough. Transfer the ring with pie dough onto a baking tray. Leave in the fridge for at least an hour. With a small knife, cut any dough that could be sticking out of the ring. Poke the bottom of the dough with a fork. Bake for 20 min at 170°C (340°F). Remove from the oven, wait 10 min for it to cool down then remove ring.
Dark chocolate brownie
- In a small bowl, melt vegan butter with Manjari chocolate on a double boiler. In another bowl, whisk together vegan eggs, vanilla extract and brown sugar. Add melted chocolate and butter to your eggs. Finally, add sifted all-purpose flour and almond flour and whisk. Pour into your baked tart shell up to 1/3 of its height. Bake the shell with brownie for 8 min at 170°C (340°F). Let it cool down for at least 10 min before proceeding.
Amatika "milk" chocolate ganache
- Melt Amatika chocolate on a double boiler. In a small pan, bring coconut milk and vanilla extract to a boil. Pour hot coconut milk onto Amatika chocolate and whisk. Use an immersion blender to perfect the emulsion. Pour onto the tart shell with brownie. Let the ganache crystallize in the fridge for at least 2 hours or until hard.
Vegan meringue
- With a hand mixer or the whisk of your stand mixer, whisk aquafaba with icing sugar to hard peaks (it will become white as well). This should take approximately 7-8 minutes.
Assembly
- With a piping bag and a round piping tip, pipe on your chilled ganache. Keep the tart in the fridge and eat it the same day. NB: You can do all the steps up to the meringue and keep your tart in the fridge for a day until you pipe the meringue. However, once you pipe the meringue, you must eat the cake immediately.
This looks delicious! Would it be possible to substitute the almond flour for a nut free version?
Yes, I would use corn flour for example!
[…] If it’s bigger, you can double the curd (or make 1.5 times as much) in order to fill your crust. If you do, you can increase the quantity of meringue accordingly, just keeping the ratio of egg whites to sugar! (So if you make 1.5 times the curd recipe, you’ll have 9 egg whites and can use 1 1/2 cups of sugar! Everything else remains the same!) For a vegan meringue (you could use any berry preserve in place of the curd, or a ganache made with dark chocolate and coconut milk) my friend Saïd has an amazing recipe here! […]
[…] Αν είναι μεγαλύτερο, μπορείτε να διπλασιάσετε το τυρόπηγμα (ή να κάνετε 1,5 φορές περισσότερο) για να γεμίσει η κρούστα σας. Αν το κάνετε, μπορείτε να αυξήσετε ανάλογα την ποσότητα της μαρέγκας, διατηρώντας απλώς την αναλογία ασπράδι αβγού προς ζάχαρη! (Έτσι, αν φτιάξετε 1,5 φορές τη συνταγή για τυρόπηγμα, θα έχετε 9 ασπράδια αυγών και μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε 1 1/2 φλιτζάνι ζάχαρη! Όλα τα άλλα παραμένουν ίδια!) Για μια vegan μαρέγκα (μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε οποιαδήποτε κονσέρβα μούρων στη θέση της το τυρόπηγμα, ή μια γκανάζ με μαύρη σοκολάτα και γάλα καρύδας) φίλε μου Είπε έχει καταπληκτική συνταγή εδώ! […]
Hi there. For the dough, you mentioned in the instructions to add the egg substitute. However , the ingredients section doesn’t list eggs for the dough. How much egg would you need for it?
Apologies for this ! I just added it to the recipe. It is 45g.