For dessert in a flash, these simple pastries are created with prepared puff pastry and filled with a sweet mix of chocolate, cranberry and ricotta.
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Choc-cranberry ricotta tarts
Dessert in a flash.
- 35 mins cooking
- Makes 12
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Ingredients
- 1½ cups (360g) ricotta
- ½ cup (110g) caster sugar
- 1 egg, beaten lightly
- 90 grams finely chopped dark eating chocolate
- ⅓ cup (45g) dried cranberries, chopped
- ¼ cup (40g) sultanas
- 3 sheets butter puff pastry
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 tablespoon icing sugar
- 40 grams dark eating chocolate, grated finely
Method
- 1Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F. Line oven trays with baking paper.
2 Combine cheese, caster sugar and egg in a medium bowl. Stir in chopped chocolate and dried fruit.
3 Cut 12 x 11cm (4½-inch) rounds from pastry; place rounds on trays. Divide ricotta mixture among rounds, leaving a 2.5cm (1-inch) border. Fold pastry edge up, pinching to
seal. Brush pastry with milk; bake tarts for 12 minutes or until browned. Cool for 5 minutes before dusting with sifted icing sugar and sprinkling with grated chocolate.
