Chocolate Tart With Sea Salt and Toasted Coconut

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You mightiness accidental this tart combines respective fashionable flavors. The pastry is made from almond flour and all-purpose flour and is precise buttery and crisp. The filling is similar a cocoa mousse: bully bittersweet chocolate, cream, eggs, vanilla and oversea salt. It’s topped with toasted coconut flakes and much oversea salt. The tart filling has nary sugar; it’s each astir honoring the cocoa and the equilibrium of the salt.

Cookbook writer Kathy Gunst likes to marque the pastry dough by hand, but you tin usage a nutrient processor. If you service the tart the time you cook it, it’s similar cocoa pie. But if you refrigerate it overnight, the filling becomes dense and astir fudgy. It’s delicious either way.

You volition request an 8-inch circular tart cookware with a removable bottom.

The pastry dough needs to remainder successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 1 hour. Plan connected letting the tart chill for astatine slightest 1 hour, oregon screen and refrigerate it for up to 12 hours.

From Maine cookbook writer Kathy Gunst, who is simply a nonmigratory cook connected NPR’s “Here and Now.”

Ingredients

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Servings: 8-10

For the crust and topping

  • 1 cupful (120 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cupful (60 grams) almond flour
  • Pinch oversea salt, positive much for sprinkling
  • 2 tablespoons (28 grams) sugar
  • 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, good chilled, chopped into tiny pieces
  • About 1/4 cupful ice-cold water, oregon arsenic needed
  • 1/3 cupful (20 grams) unsweetened flaked coconut

For the filling

  • 1 1/2 cups dense cream
  • 9 ounces (255 grams) bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (may substitute 5 ounces 65 percent bittersweet cocoa positive 4 ounces beverage chocolate)
  • 2 ample eggs
  • 1/2 spoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 spoon (3 grams) bully oversea salt

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 10)

  • Calories

    380

  • Fat

    32 g

  • Saturated Fat

    19 g

  • Carbohydrates

    24 g

  • Sodium

    150 mg

  • Cholesterol

    105 mg

  • Protein

    5 g

  • Fiber

    3 g

  • Sugar

    14 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Maine cookbook writer Kathy Gunst, who is simply a nonmigratory cook connected NPR’s “Here and Now.”

Tested by Mary Pat Flaherty.

Published March 27, 2016

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Updated March 15, 2026

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