Part 1: For the Sweet Pastry
Ingredients
Method- 166g Medium protein flour (Plain flour)
- 40g deZaan Terra Rossa Cocoa Powder
- 100g Unsalted Butter
- 2g Salt
- 42g Icing Sugar
- 33g Eggs
- Combine flour, butter, salt, icing sugar, deZaan Terra Rossa cocoa powder, and mix until a sandy texture is formed.
- Add eggs and knead just enough to form a dough.
- Rest in chiller for at least 30 minutes.
- Rolled the dough into 3mm thick.
- Line in ring and stack with baking rice. Bake in tart ring at 160℃ for 12 min, remove the rice and continue to bake for 6-7 minutes.
- Allow to cool before using.
Part 2: For the Cream Patisserie
Ingredients
Method- 250g Fresh Milk
- 63g Sugar
- 1g Salt
- 40g Egg yolk
- 23g Corn starch
- 25g Unsalted butter
- 20g deZaan Terra Rossa cocoa powder
- Whisk together corn starch, sugar, and salt.
- Add in yolk and whisk until mix well.
- Boil Milk and deZaan Terra Rossa cocoa powder.
- Slowly temper the milk into the egg mix while constantly whisking.
- Heat the mixture above until thickened (83℃) while constantly stirring.
- Remove from heat and fold in butter to mix well
- Transfer to a bowl and cover with a cling wrap directly on the pastry cream, chill to cool.
Part 3: For the Pineapple Filling
Ingredients
Method- 250g Pineapple
- 20g Sugar
- 1g Clove
- Boil all ingredient until caramelized and brown.
Part 4: For the Chantilly
Ingredients
Method- 200g Whipping cream
- 20g Icing Sugar
- 1/4nos Vanilla pod
- Whisk all ingredient until medium peak.
Part 5: For the Dehydrated Pineapples
Ingredients
Method- 200g Pineapple Slices
- 100g Sugar
- 135g water
- Bring all ingredients to a boil.
- Transfer the pineapple slices to a silicone baking pad (silpat) and bake at 90℃ for a minimum of 3 hours or until dry.
Part 6: To Assemble
Method- Fill 25g of pineapple filling on the tart shell.
- Add the cream patisserie until full.
- Pipe cream chantilly on top of the Tart.
- Sift cocoa powder on top of chantilly to give some color.
- Add the dehydrated pineapple on top of piped chantilly as decoration.
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