Banana Chocolate Hazelnut Tart Recipes

CHOCOLATE-HAZELNUT TART

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, mix together the sugar and the flour. Add the eggs, hazelnuts, chocolate chips, corn syrup, butter, vanilla, and salt. Stir well. Pour the mixture into the pie crust. Bake for 1 hour.
• Cool the tart for at least 30 minutes before serving.

BANANA CHOCOLATE TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Blend crumbs, butter, 1/3 cup sugar, and salt in a food processor until mixture begins to hold together and pat onto bottom and up side of a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Bake in middle of oven until side of crust is firm to the touch, 14 to 18 minutes.
• Sprinkle chocolate chips into hot crust and let stand 5 minutes to soften. Spread evenly over bottom of crust. Beat cream with remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar and rum until it holds soft peaks. Cut bananas into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Whisk preserves and add bananas, tossing to coat. Spoon banana mixture into crust and top with whipped cream.

CHOCOLATE-HAZELNUT-BANANA PIE

Steps:

• Whisk chocolate and 1/2 cup COOL WHIP until blended; spread onto bottom of crust. Top with bananas.
• Beat dry pudding mix, milk and chocolate-hazelnut spread in medium bowl with whisk 2 min. Stir in remaining COOL WHIP; spread over bananas.
• Refrigerate 3 hours.

BANANA CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT TART

Steps:

• Make the pastry:.
• In a food processor, combine the cold butter, flour and salt. Pulse together until you get a fine crumb with a few pea-sized lumps of butter. Drizzle in 2 tbsp of the cold water and pulse again. Pinch some of the mixture between your fingertips, if it holds together it's done. If it doesn't drizzle in another tablespoon or two of water and pulse again.
• Tip out onto a piece of plastic wrap, press together into a ball and press down into a disk. Wrap in the plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour.
• Make the filling:.
• Meanwhile wipe out the food processor. Place the 2/3 cup of hazelnuts into the food processor with half of the sugar and blend until very fine in texture. Add the butter and blend again until smooth. Add the egg whites, flour, baking powder and salt. Blend again until smooth.
• Mix the mashed banana with the sugar and lemon juice in a small bowl. Set aside.
• Blind bake the pastry:.
• Preheat the oven to 350oF.
• Roll the chilled pastry out between two pieces of baking paper to just slightly larger than an 8-inch tart tin. Peel off the top layer of baking paper, flip the pastry into the tin and remove the other layer of baking paper. Gently press the pastry down into the tin and cut off any excess around the edges.
• Crumple up one of the pieces of baking paper you were using, un crumple it and lay it into the lined tart tin. Fill with baking beans and bake for 10 minutes with the baking paper inside. Lift out the baking paper and baking beans and cook the pastry for a further 5 minutes.
• Fill and bake:.
• Remove the tart tin from the oven, spread with the mashed banana then cover with the hazelnut mixture you made earlier and top with chocolate chips and the extra hazelnuts. Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden and a toothpick inserted into the centre of the tart comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.

UPSIDEDOWN HAZELNUT BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Butter the cake pan.
• Toast the nuts and let them cool completely.
• In a food processor, grind the nuts with the sugar until very fine.
• Using a hand-held mixer, cream the butter; then add the sugar mixture. Add the eggs and mix. Add the sour cream and vanilla and stir. Mix in the banana puree. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt to make a smooth batter.
• To bake, cover the bottom of the cake pan with some of the warmed hazelnut schmear (microwave 40 seconds or so). Fan some banana slices over it and spoon in the batter.
• Bake until just set, about 35 to 40 minutes. Keep warm in a low oven and turn it out at the last minute.
• Melt the butter. Remove from the heat and whisk in the brown sugar and the nuts. Store in the refrigerator.

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT TART

Steps:

• Make tart shell:
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Pulse hazelnuts with flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor until finely ground (be careful not to grind to a paste), then add butter and pulse until most of mixture resembles coarse meal with some roughly pea-size butter lumps. Add egg and vanilla and pulse just until mixture begins to clump.
• Press dough evenly over bottom and up side of tart pan and chill 10 minutes. Line tart shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake in middle of oven until pale golden along rim, about 15 minutes. Carefully remove foil and weights and bake shell until bottom and side are golden, about 10 minutes more. Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 325°F.
• Make filling while shell cools:
• Put chopped chocolate in a bowl. Bring milk, sugar, and salt to a boil in a 1-quart saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, then pour milk over chocolate in bowl and let stand until chocolate is melted, about 1 minute. Whisk until smooth, then whisk in yolks and vanilla. Whisk in crème fraîche and pour into crust.
• Bake tart in middle of oven until just set, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool completely in pan on rack. Chill until firm, at least 1 hour, then bring to room temperature before serving.

CHOCOLATE BANANA TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Grind pecan halves,flour and brown sugar in food processor until fine,Add butter and pulse for 5 seconds.
• Press into 10 inch tart pan with removable bottom.
• Bake 8 minutes.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool.
• Combine cream and maple syrup in small saucepan.
• Bring to boil over medium heat.
• Remove from heat and add chocolate,stir until mixture is smooth and chocolate is melted.
• Line bananas in bottom of cool tart shell,pour chocolate mixture over bananas.
• Arrange pecan halves around edge of tart.
• Refrigerate until chilled,about 2 hours.
• Serve cold.