Feeling adventurous? Put your baking skills to the test with this stunning tart recipe by our very own Queen of Chocolate, Kirsten Tibballs.  Featuring a chocolate tart, raspberry compote, hazelnut jaconde, gianduja ganache, chocolate cremeux, raspberry jelly, chantilly cream and meringue kisses!

Recipe makes two tarts

Peanut Pastry
19cm Silikomart perforated tart ring

Ingredients:
310g Lurpak Unsalted Butter
190g Icing Sugar
65g Ground Peanuts
5g Maldon Sea Salt
5g Heilala Vanilla Paste
100g Whole Eggs
470g Plain Flour
30g Callebaut Dutch-Process Cocoa Powder 22-24%
Plain Flour for dusting
Callebaut Mycryo Cocoa Butter for dusting

Method:
1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine the butter with the icing sugar until there are no lumps, then add in the ground peanuts.
2. Add the salt, vanilla and egg and continue mixing. Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and the cocoa powder and mix until it just comes together as a dough.
4. Remove from the mixer and press it into a flat square. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least an hour.
5. Cut the dough in half to roll out one half of the dough at a time. Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface to approximately 2-3 mm in thickness.
6. Place the tart rings on a perforated tray lined with silpain mat.
7. Line the two 190mm perforated tart rings with the pastry before lining them with the baking paper or heatproof plastic and fill with baking beads or uncooked rice.
8. Bake at 170°C for 10-12 minutes. Remove the baking beads and bake for a further 4-6 minutes.
9. As it comes out of the oven, dust the pastry with the cocoa butter.
10. With the remaining pastry roll it to 2mm in thickness and cut two rings with the outside dimensions 150mm and the inside dimensions 100mm. Place on a perforated tray lined with a silpain mat, place a second silpain mat on top and bake for approximately 8 minutes.
 
Raspberry Compote

Ingredients:
145g Ravifruit Raspberry Puree
100g Caster Sugar
30g Liquid Glucose
2g Citric Acid

Method:
1. In a small saucepan, bring the puree and the sugar to a boil.
2. Add in the glucose and heat to 103°C while stirring on a medium-high heat. Remove from the heat and stir in the citric acid.
3. While hot, divide the compote between the tart cases.
4. Place the tarts in the fridge to enable the compote to set.
 
Hazelnut Sponge (Jaconde)
5 x large frames

Ingredients:
240g Egg Whites
3g Cream of Tartar
50g Caster Sugar
100g Plain Flour
150g Icing Sugar
150g Ground Hazelnuts
270g Whole Eggs
40g Lurpak Unsalted Butter, melted
50g Hazelnuts, roughly chopped

Method:
1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, combine the egg whites and cream of tartar and whisk until a firm peak, then slowly add in the caster sugar.
2. In a separate bowl, sieve in the flour, icing sugar and ground hazelnuts and combine.
3. Add in the whole the eggs and whisk to combine.
4. Add a small amount of the hazelnut mixture into the egg white and gently fold through.
5. Then add the meringue mixture to the hazelnut mixture and fold through.
6. Place a small amount of the meringue mixture into the melted butter and combine before adding it back into the meringue mixture.
7. Spread the mixture evenly into the flexipat and sprinkle with hazelnuts. Bake at 200°C for approximately 8 minutes.
 
Gianduja Ganache

Ingredients:
250g Thickened Cream, 35% Fat
30g Liquid Glucose
400g Gianduja Chocolate
10g Frangelico

Method:
1. In a saucepan, combine the cream and glucose and bring to a boil.
2. Pour over the chopped gianduja, emulsify with a stick blender add in the Frangelico and emulsify again.

Caramel Cream

Ingredients:
120g Callebaut Gold Caramel Chocolate 30.4%
80g Callebaut 823 Milk Couverture 33.6%
252g Thickened Cream, 35% Fat
3g Salt
2g Heilala Vanilla Bean Paste
60g Egg Yolks
24g Caster Sugar

Method:
1. Combine the chocolates together and place to the side with a sieve on top.
2. In a saucepan, bring the cream, salt and vanilla to a boil.
3. In a bowl, combine the egg yolks and sugar with a whisk and pour the cream over top.
4. Place everything back into a saucepan and reheat to 81°C, stirring continuously.
5. Strain the mixture over the chocolates and whisk together until combined. Set aside while preparing the jaconde.

Raspberry Jelly
5 x small plastic frames, stacked

Ingredients:
2.5g Agar Agar
42g Caster Sugar
252g Ravifruit Raspberry Puree

Method:
1. In a bowl, combine the agar agar with the sugar.
2. In a saucepan, place the raspberry puree and sprinkle in the combined sugar and agar agar.
3. Whisk continously over a medium heat and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and pour directly into the frames on a silpat mat.
4. Cover with plastic wrap touching the surface and place in the fridge to set for approximately 2 hours.
5. Cut into individual cubes.

Gold Chantilly Cream

Ingredients:
360g Thickened Cream, 35% Fat (A)
36g Glucose
250g Callebaut Gold Caramel Chocolate 30.4%
250g Thickened Cream, 35% Fat (B)

Method:
1. In a small saucepan, place cream (A) and the glucose and bring to the boil.
2. Remove from the heat and pour over the gold chocolate.
3. Whisk by hand to combine ensuring all chocolate has dissolved before adding cream (B).
4. Cover with plastic wrap touching the surface and place in the fridge for at least 6 hours.
5. Once set and ready to assemble, whisk to a soft peak in a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment.

Meringue Kisses

Ingredients:
65g Egg White
2g Cream of Tartar
130g Caster Sugar
5g Callebaut Dutch-Process Cocoa Powder 22-24%

Method:
1. Place the sugar into an oven-proof bowl and place into an oven and heat until the sugar is 60°C.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, place the egg whites, cream of tartar and the heated sugar and whisk until a medium peak is reached.
3. Fold through the sieved cocoa powder.
4. Using a piping bag fitted with a 6mm piping tube, pipe individual kisses onto a lined tray.
5. Place the meringue in the oven at 90°C for approximately 1 hour or until crunchy.
6. Store in an airtight container.

Assembly

Ingredients:
Roasted Hazelnuts, roughly chopped
Micro mint
Fresh Raspberries

Method:
1. Cut the hazelnut sponge to fit a large frame and place additional frames on top until flush with the top of the sponge, place a further two additional frames on the top and pour on the gianduja ganache.
2. Set the ganache in the fridge for approximately 1 hour.
3. Cut the sponge and ganache into 15mm strips.
4. Create a pinwheel with the strips in the centre of the tart on top of the jelly and freeze.
5. Pour the caramel cream on top and place in the fridge to set.
6. Once set pipe the chantilly cream on top of the tart using a 12mm plain piping tip starting from the outside and covering the whole tart.
7. Place the peanut pastry disc on top, fill the centre with an even layer of raspberries and garnish with raspberry jelly cubes, hazelnuts and micro mint.