White Chocolate, Cardamom & Raspberry Tart

White Chocolate, Cardamom and Raspberry Tart with a Pecan and Hazelnut Base

By Lucy Carr-Ellison and Jemima Jones

“This is one of our best desserts – it might even be Jemima’s favourite. It is exactly what you want in a dessert, with a crunchy nutty base, luxurious creamy centre and a tart lift from the raspberry. White chocolate and cardamom are a match made in heaven, we are always pairing them – try making white chocolate and cardamom ice cream, it’s divine.”

Ingredients

  • 200g pecans
  • 200g hazelnuts
  • 175g unsalted butter, melted
  • 2 pinches of sea salt
  • 250g mascarpone
  • 100ml double cream
  • 300g good-quality white chocolate
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 250g raspberries

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Spread both the pecans and hazelnuts out on a baking tray and roast for about 15 minutes until nicely golden. Remove and set aside to cool.

2. Place half the nuts in a food possessor and blitz to a fine powder, then put into a bowl. Blitz the rest of the nuts to a rough crumb, then mix with the powdered nuts. Add the melted butter and a pinch of sea salt and stir to combine. Tip the mixture into a 23cm loose-bottomed tart tin and press firmly up the sides and into the bottom of the tin. You want the base to be crunchy and quite thin, rather than a thick crust. Chill in the fridge while you get on with the filling.

3. Put the mascarpone, double cream, white chocolate, vanilla and cardamom into a pan and warm over a low heat, stirring all the time to let the chocolate melt, then add a pinch of salt and remove from
the heat.

4. Pour the chocolate mixture into the base. Return to the fridge and leave to set for about 1 hour.

5. Put the raspberries into a sieve suspended over a bowl. Use a spoon
to press the raspberries through the sieve, leaving the seeds behind in the sieve. Once done, take the nearly-set tart out of the fridge and use a teaspoon to dot blobs of the raspberry purée over the tart. Turn the teaspoon over and drag the dots a little to create a pretty, swirled effect. Return to the fridge for another 2 hours to set completely.

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