Cuore Fondente: A rich chocolate pie that will be perfect (if you make it reducing the ingredients to those given here) for Valentine's day. Or you can make the full pie for more friends with libidinous tastes. If you make the romantic version, a small heart-shaped pan will greatly improve the presentation.
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- ** For the crust **
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, broken into bits
- An egg yolk
- ** For the filling **
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 4 ounces (100 g) baking chocolate
- 2 more tablespoons unsalted butter
- Good quality milk or dark chocolate and powdered sugar
Preparation:
Using a mixer, beat the flour, sugar and butter until the mixture looks like crumbs. Beat in the yolk too, and when the dough forms into a ball warp it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for a half hour.Roll the dough out to about an eighth of an inch thick (3 mm), and use it to line a heart-shaped pan whose midline is between 4 and 5 inches (10-12 cm). Prick the bottom of the dough with a fork and chill it for 20 minutes. While it's chilling, heat your oven to 360 F (180 C)
When the time is up, line the dough with oven parchment, fill it with dried beans, and bake it for 20 minutes. Remove the pan, remove the beans and the parchment, and let the baked crust cool.
In the meantime, break the chocolate into chunks and melt it over a double boiler with the cream and the butter, mixing well. Let the mixture cool, pour it into the pie shell, and chill everything in the refrigerator for 4 hours. Come time to serve it, decorate it with shavings of milk or dark chocolate and powdered sugar.
To make a bigger pie to serve 6 you'll need:
- 1 2/3 cups (200 g) flour
- 1/2 cup (100 g) unsalted butter
- 1/3 cup plus a tablespoon (80 g) sugar
- An egg and a yolk
- 1/2 pound plus one ounce (250 g) baking chocolate
- 3/5 cup (150 ml) heavy cream
