Milk Chocolate Crémeux Tart

Name: Milk Chocolate Crémeux Tart
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 , large egg; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1½ cups (7½ ounces), all-purpose flour; 2/3 cup (2⅔ ounces), confectioners' sugar; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch pieces and chilled; 1 cup, half-and-half; 4 , large egg yolks; 1 tablespoon, unsweetened cocoa powder (optional); ⅜ teaspoon, table salt; 12 ounces, milk chocolate, chopped fine; 1½ teaspoons, vanilla extract; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and hot

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2022, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

French

Chocolate

Make Ahead

This crisp, elegantly slim, and shockingly simple pâte sucrée crust should be in every baker's back pocket.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME1½ hours, plus 3 hours 40 minutes freezing, cooling, and chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Pat-in-the-pan tart crusts are quick and convenient, but they're thick, so they don't leave a lot of room for filling. A slimmer, more traditional pâte sucrée crust has a greater capacity, but it can be tricky to make. Instead of chilling t...

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