Recipe from What's For Lunch, Honey?
Ingredients
Cranberry Topping
120 ml cranberry juice - divided use
1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
340 g fresh or frozen cranberries
150 g sugar
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon peel - finely grated
1 teaspoon fresh ginger - peeled and grated
Pinch of salt
4 tablespoons candied ginger - finely chopped
Crust
200-250 g chocolate cookies - finely ground in processor (I used simple butter chocolate cookies)
150 g plain milk chocolate - melted (I melted a Milka candy bar in the microwave)
50 g sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
90 g unsalted butter, melted
Mascarpone Filling
250 g mascarpone cheese
65 g powdered sugar
120 ml chilled whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
For cranberry topping
Pour half of the cranberry juice into a small bowl and sprinkle gelatin over it. Let stand until softened, about 15 minutes.
Combine
the rest of the cranberry juice, cranberries, sugar, lemon juice and
peel, ginger and salt in medium saucepan. Bring the mixture to a
rolling boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves.
Reduce heat to
medium and simmer until cranberries become tender. Do not let them pop
and make sure the remain plump, about 5 minutes. Strain into bowl and
set the cranberries aside.
Add the gelatin mixture to the hot
juice in bowl, stirring until gelatin dissolves. Stir the cranberries
back into juice. Chill until cranberry mixture is cold and slightly
thickened. This will take at least at least 8 hours or leave overnight.
This mixture can be made 2 days ahead. Cover and chill.
Stir chopped candied ginger into cranberry mixture.
For crust
Position
rack in center of oven and preheat to 200 degrees C. Combine chocolate
cookie crumbs, sugar, and salt in medium bowl. Add 5 tablespoons melted
butter and stir until crumbs feel moist when pressed together with
fingertips, adding remaining 1 tablespoon melted butter if mixture is
dry. Pour the melted chocolate into the crumbs mixture and stir to coat.
Press
crumb mixture firmly onto bottom and up sides of tart pan. Bake
chocolate crust for approx. 10 minutes until beginning to set and
slightly crisp, pressing with spoon if crust puffs during baking.
Transfer tart pan to rack and cool crust completely before filling.
Place in the refrigerator for a few hours to allow the chocolate to set.
For mascarpone filling
Using
electric mixer, beat all ingredients except ginger in medium bowl just
until thick enough to spread. Do not over beat or mixture may curdle.
Spread filling in cooled crust. Cover and chill overnight
Spoon
cranberry mixture evenly over mascarpone filling. Chill at least 2
hours and up to 6 hours. Cut tart into wedges and serve cold, drizzled
with chocolate sauce.