Creme Egg lovers rejoice! Try my Creme Egg Chocolate Ganache Tart this Easter for a rich chocolatey treat!
As you can see I’ve been getting busy baking up a delicious Easter chocolate tart for you to enjoy this April!
If it’s Easter, there have to be Cadbury’s Creme Eggs of course. It’s the law. They may have changed the way they make them but they still mean Easter, at least for chocolate lovers.
What better than to add creme eggs to a delicious chocolate ganache tart with chocolate pastry. True chocolate overload! Definitely not one for you if you’re dieting, but for a treat for the family at Easter, why not.
We bravely ate this tart before Easter just to try it out. I’ll definitely have to make it again if the happy faces at the table were anything to go by.
I’m going to have to get back in the gym after eating this, but it was definitely worth it!
More Easter Bakes to Try
For some more delicious Easter bakes, why not have a look at these:
- creme egg cheesecake from It’s Not Easy Being Greedy
- Cadbury creme egg chocolate caramel shortbread from Kerry Cooks
- spiced Easter biscuits from Recipes from a Pantry
- Amaretto Easter cupcakes from Chocolate Log Blog
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Creme Egg Chocolate Ganache Tart
Ingredients
Chocolate pastry
- 215 g plain flour
- 35 g cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 125 g butter cut into cubes
- 1 egg yolk
- 4 tbsp cold water
Filling
- 200 g dark chocolate broken into pieces
- 300 ml double cream
- 50 g demerara sugar
- 2 packs mini Cadburys Creme Eggs
- 1 Galaxy Bubbles egg
Instructions
To make the pastry:
- Sift the flour, cocoa powder and caster sugar into a bowl.
- Rub in the butter until it looks like fine breadcrumbs.
- Beat the egg yolk with the cold water then pour it into a well in the middle of the flour mixture.
- Use a spoon to mix it together and then press together with your hands.
- Cover with clingfilm and put it in the fridge for half an hour to chill.
- Remove from the fridge and roll out carefully so it is larger than your tart tin. Drape over the tin and push the corners gently into place. Press the pastry round the tin so the edges become fluted.
- Trim off the edges with a sharp knife, to the shape of the tin.
- Place your tin on a baking sheet to make it easier to handle.
- Then put the tin (still on the sheet) back into the fridge to chill for another half an hour. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Remove the pastry shell from the fridge. Prick the base with a fork to stop it rising as it bake and to allow the steam to escape.
- Fill the pastry shell with baking beans (I use dried pasta, you can also use dried rice) on top of baking paper and bake for 10 minutes. Then remove the baking beans and baking paper and bake for a further 10 minutes for the base to become crisp.
- Leave the case to cool.
To make the filling:
- Bring the double cream and light brown sugar to a simmer in a small pan, then remove it from the heat.
- Place the broken up chocolate in a large bowl, then pour the cream over the chocolate. After a few minutes stir the cream and chocolate together until it is smooth and a uniform colour.
- Pour the ganache into the pastry case and smooth the top with the back of a spoon.
- Split one pack of the mini creme eggs in half with a sharp knife.
- Arrange them on top of the ganache and press them in slightly.
- Put the tart back in the fridge to set.
- Once it has set - this should take 1-2 hours but depends on your fridge - cut three or four more of the mini creme eggs into quarters, and arrange these around the edges of the tart.
- Cut the Galaxy Bubbles egg into small pieces and crumble it between the quartered mini creme eggs.
- Serve for a delicious extravagant Easter dessert!
Linking up with Dom from Belleau Kitchen and his new simply eggcellent linkup (not for the creme eggs, but there is a free-range egg yolk in the pastry!)
Also linking up with the new Pastry Challenge linkup from Jen from Jen’s Food and Lisa from United Cakedom.
Linking too with Supergolden Bakes and #CookBlogShare.
Johanna @ Green Gourmet Giraffe says
fantastic tart for easter – have bookmarked for next year
Stacey Guilliatt (@nobodysaidblog) says
Oh. My. Goodness. This looks a-ma-zing! #tastytuesdays
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Stacey 🙂 It was so delicious, but I will have to run a marathon at this rate…
jennypaulin says
yum yum yum yum yum yum!!! i could go on
yum yum yum!!! seriously yummy xx
bakingqueen74 says
It was so rich and gorgeous, thanks Jenny x
Helen at Casa Costello says
Thank you so much for adding this to #Bakeoftheweek – I have no words for how much I love the thought of tasting this recipe. Your Creme Egg Choc Ganache is this week’s featured Bake x
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks so much Helen, I can’t wait for Easter so I can make another for the family! Bakeoftheweek is a great linkup with loads of lovely recipes, thanks for hosting x
lucyparissi says
Death by chocolate alert! I don’t think I can bear to look at this for too long that’s how rich it is… I bet it was devoured in record time. Thanks for linking to #CookBlogShare
bakingqueen74 says
Yes it really is chocolate overload! You would be surprised, took us days to finish as it was so rich! (Ok apart from all my sneaky nibbles.) thanks Lucy x
Sammie Hodges says
Oh my this looks amazing! What a show stopper, I think i will have to make this as my Easter dessert (if I can hold off making it for that long!)
bakingqueen74 says
Thank you Sammie! Definitely a good one for the Easter lunch. Going to have to make another here!
Lindsay says
This looks and sounds ridiculously good!!
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Lindsay, it is toooo good!
Jenny @ Let's Talk Mommy says
Looks and sounds perfect for Easter. Yummy. I have attempted cutting those creme eggs in half not easy! Popping over from #recipeoftheweek and #tastytuesdays
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Jenny 🙂
Jo's Kitchen (@Jos_Kitchen) says
Sounds delicious
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Jo, very rich and yummy!
Dominic Franks (@belleaukitchen) says
this is the most incredible tart… it looks quite positively pornographic with chocolateness!… i LOVE it!… I want to bathe in it’s silky chocolate glory and those eggs… those EGGS!… yes please! Thanks so much for entering this stunner into my Simply Eggcellent link-up xx
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks very much Dom 🙂
Jen says
Looks amazing, perfect chocolate indulgence for Easter. Sadly I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t like creme eggs but I’d just eat round them and let the OH finish off my slice!
Thanks for linking up with #thepastrychallenge 🙂
bakingqueen74 says
You’re welcome Jen! Don’t like Creme eggs? Hope you like chocolate though! 🙂
recipesfromapantry says
My cup of tea is looking rather lonely without a slice of this tart.
bakingqueen74 says
It is definitely a great treat to have with a cuppa, just having a cuppa now to recover from having a slice or two
Choclette says
Wowzers, this is a chocoholics dream Lucy – or perhaps I should say my dream tart. Thanks for sharing one of my Easter recipes too.
bakingqueen74 says
I am about to go into a chocolate coma I think after eating some. Glad you like it and happy to share the link love!
fabfood4all says
Oh my, what a perfect and delicious cake. I know what a fiddle it is cutting those mini creme eggs up from when I made my Creme Egg Brownies recently so good job:_)
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Camilla! Yes, not something I’ve attempted before, love Creme egg brownies too.
kerrycooks says
This looks SO delicious Lucy! You are indeed very brave 🙂
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Kerry! Aren’t we so brave and selfless eating all these goodies to try them out 😉
kerrycooks says
I really think we’re providing a valuable public service!