FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE GANACHE TART N WARM CHERRY AND BLUEBERRY RUBY PORTO SAUCE

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Categories     Chocolate     Dessert     Freeze/Chill     Quick & Easy     Wheat/Gluten-Free     Christmas Eve

Yield 4-6 filling1tart&5bowls

Number Of Ingredients 17

TART SHELL:
2 cups Almond Meal (flour)
3/4 Maple Syrup
4 tablespoons melted butter (can use 2 tablespoons for lighter caloric crust)
GANACHE:
8 oz Callebaut Dark Chocolate Semi-Sweet
8 oz Ghirardelli Bittersweet Dark Chocolate Chips
2 Cups Light Cream
1 egg yolk
WARM CHERRY and BLUEBERRY RUBY PORTO SAUCE:
Cherries
Blueberries
3 Tablespoon of agave,maple syrup or honey
1/4 cup Merlot
1/4 cup Ruby Red Porto Wine
1 Tablespoon Cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Steps:

  • 1. To make tart shell, place Almond Meal (or pulverized nuts), maple syrup, and butter in bowl and fold until properly mixed. Place parchment paper in 8-10 inch tart pan with removable bottom. 2.Preheat oven to 375F 3. Butter the sides of pan for easy removal. 4.Press mixture into tart pan. 5. Bake crust for 15-20 min or until golden brown. 6. Set up 2 double boilers 7. Place chocolate in a double boiler and melt. 8. In other double boiler heat cream until scalding hot. 9. Beat egg yolk into the boiler with chocolate. (chocolate will slightly harden and clump it's ok it will smooth out again once you add the cream). 10. Pour scalding hot cream into the chocolate and stir or beat until all the chocolate is smooth again. 11. Pour mixture into shell and chill tart for at least 2 hours 12. To decorate, cut out a stencil of a pattern and place over the tart. Pour powdered sugar into a sifter and sprinkly lightly over the stencil. Remove stencil and serve. SAUCE: 1. If cherries and blueberries are frozen; thaw, drain and save the juice. 2. Pour juices from cherries into glass cup and add merlot and Porto to measure 1 cup. 3. Stir 3 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon cornstarch in heavy small saucepan until no lumps remain. 4. Gradually whisk in wine mixture, then cherries and blueberries. 5. Cook over medium-high heat until cause boils, thickens and is translucent, stirring frequently, about five minutes. 6. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla extract. 7. Spoon warm sauce over Ganache tart and serve immediately.

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