Chocolate Cream Tart Amongst Pecan Shortbread Crust

Cream pies tin last tricky. Most recipes must last made that solar daytime - who has fourth dimension for that during the holidays?! This Chocolate Tart recipe is swell (maybe fifty-fifty better...) the adjacent day. It is a variation on the pop "Mississippi Mud" pie that was in addition to hence pop when nosotros were young. I dressed it upwards a flake yesteryear using a fluted tart pan, homemade chocolate 'pudding' in addition to existent whipped cream.

Chococolate Cream Tart
with Pecan Shortbread Crust

Crust :
i loving cup of pecans
1/2 loving cup of flour
1/2 loving cup of butter (1 stick), softened

1st Layer - Cream Cheese Filling :
4oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 loving cup of powdered sugar

2nd Layer - Chocolate Filling :
2/3 loving cup sugar
1/3 loving cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/3 loving cup of cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon of body of body of water salt
ii 1/2 cups of one-half in addition to half
four large egg yolks
1/4 teaspoon of vanilla
i tablespoon of butter

Topping :
i loving cup of heavy cream
i teaspoon of sugar
i ounce of baking chocolate

To brand the crust, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Chop pecans into minor pieces yesteryear manus or inwards a nutrient processor. In a mixer fitted alongside the paddle attachment, combine chopped pecans, flour in addition to butter. Butter a tart pan or pie dish. Press the dough into the bottom in addition to upwards the sides of the pan. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Set aside to cool.

For the showtime layer of filling, whip together cream cheese in addition to powdered saccharide until it is smooth. Spread it into the bottom of the cooled crust.

For the 2nd layer of filling, combine sugar, cocoa, cornstarch in addition to tabular array salt inwards a saucepan. Whisk inwards milk. Cook over medium-high, stirring constantly. Cook for 5-7 minutes until it is bubbly in addition to thick. In a split upwards large bowl, whisk egg yolks together. Add a minor sum of the chocolate mixture to the eggs in addition to stir. Stirring constantly, decease along to add together minor amounts of the chocolate mixture to the egg yolks until completely combined. Return to the saucepan in addition to gear upwards over medium rut only until it begins to boil. Stir inwards vanilla in addition to butter until smooth. Pour filling over the cream cheese layer. Chill inwards the refrigerator.

Make the whipped topping only earlier serving. Beat together cream in addition to saccharide until strong peaks form. Spread on the occur of the chocolate layer. With a vegetable peeler, brand shavings of chocolate to garnish the whipped cream.