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Chocolate Truffle tart

I just bought almond biscotti. And I was looking for recipes to use them in. Of course, they are best dunked in coffee, or as I like, in milk. So I was looking on Google, and I came up on this site, Joy Of Baking. This is a very nice site, they have lots of information on the history and stuff of the ingredients or recipes.

Well, I found a recipe to make Rasberry Truffle tart there, but I am going to leave out the rasberries, and make it with chocolate only. I LOVE chocolate, incase you are new to Lifensuch, and do not know about me. I haven’t made this as yet, but I am going to try it this week. I will update later, if it turns out as I imagined.

Ingredients:

biscotti, broken into pieces, 8 oz
melted unsalted butter, 5-6 tbsp
semi sweet or bitter sweet chocoate, 10 0z, (I am planning to use, 5 oz of semi sweet, and 5 oz of bitter sweet chocolate)
heavy whipping cream, 1 cup
Method:

In food processor, process the biscotti, until ground. Mix with melted butter, and pat it down in the baking pan. In a preheated oven, bake it at 350 deg F, until its golden brown. Remove from oven, and cool it completely.
In a pan, boil the whipping cream. Then pour it over the chocolate. Wait for a few minutes, and mix it till the chocolate melts in completely.

Pour this into the cooled biscotti crust. Refrigerate overnight.

For serving, cut a slice, and garnish with strawberries, rasberries, whipped cream, toasted slivered almonds or chocolate shavings. Or a combination of anything you like.

December 3rd, 2007