Valentine's Day Tart

Step 1

Sift the flour in a bowl, add the cocoa, chocolate powder, icing sugar and finally the butter into small pieces and at room temperature. With your fingertips, or in the mixer work the dough until you have a sablé mixture. Add the eggs and the vanilla flavoring drops: knead until a smooth pastry. Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for at least an hour in a cool place.

Step 2

Grease and flour the tart pan, then divide the dough into 2 loaves of equal weight. Roll out the first with a rolling pin directly on a sheet of baking paper about 4 mm thick and turn the sheet upside down, transferring the pastry to the buttered pan. With your fingers make the pastry stick well on the base of the pan, remove the excess dough by pressing with a rolling pin on the edge.

Step 3

Prick the pastry with the prongs of a fork.

Step 4

Spread the second piece of chocolate pastry on a sheet of baking paper 4 mm thick. Sprinkle the grill with the sifted flour and turn the parchment paper upside down by laying the pastry.

Step 5

Remove the excess pasta and drop all the hearts by gently beating the grill on the work surface. Keep it aside. Lift the top of the pastry cutter grasp it by the side flaps and leave it in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Step 6

After this time, turn on the oven at 180 ° C. Fill the base of the tart with the chosen jam by distributing it evenly on the bottom. With the prongs of a fork, lower the edge of the pastry as much as possible. Remove the pastry cutter from the freezer, remove the pastry from the grill and place it on the tart: eliminate the excess edges by pressing the edge of the pan with a rolling pin.

Step 7

Decora the border with the hearts kept aside previously. Bake and cook for about 18 minutes.

Step 8

Leave to cool and serve with a hot chocolate and flavored tea.