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  • Chocolate Chess Tart and Orange Vanilla Ice Cream

    Chocolate Chess
    Ingredients:

    4 Cups Cream
    3 Cups Dark Chocolate
    1 Cup Sugar
    4 Each Eggs
    1 Cup Milk
    1 Each Orange Zest

    Procedure:
    • Bing Cream, Zest and Sugar to a boil and pour over finely chopped chocolate.
    • Lest stand for 2 Minutes and mix together creating a ganache
    • In a separate bowl, wisk together eggs and milk and add to chocolate mixture.

    Tart Dough
    Ingredients:
    1 Cup Butter
    1/2 Cup Sugar
    1 Each Eggs
    1.5 Cup Cake Flour
    1 Tsp Salt

    • In a electric mixer, cream together butter, sugar and salt until light in color
    • Add egg and mix until incorporated
    • Add Flour and mix until smooth
    • Wrap and refrigerated until ready to use

    Making the tart
    • Remove dough from cooler and roll to 1/8 inch thick and like a tart pan
    • Refrigerate the tart and when chilled bake at 375F for 10-12 minutes until golden brown
    • Cool the tart shell and line with toasted pecans and top with chocolate filling
    • Return to the oven at 260F and bake the tart until the chocolate sets. Approx 20-25 minutes for a 10 inch tart
    • Remove from oven and refrigerate for at least 4 hours to fully set
    • Remove from tart pan, slice and serve with ice cream or whipped cream

    Orange Vanilla Ice Cream
    Ingredients:
    2 cups Heavy Cream
    2 cups Whole Milk
    ¾ cup Granulated Sugar
    ¼ cup Glucose
    1 each Vanilla bean, Spit and scraped
    2 each oranges zested
    6 each egg Yolks

    Procedure:
    Over medium heat bring cream, milk sugar, glucose, zest and vanilla to a simmer.  Slowly ladle hot mix over egg yolks while whipping. Return custard mix to the stove and cook very gently over medium-low heat until mix coats the back of a wooden spoon.
    Remove from heat and strain onto an ice bath and rest in cooler over night.
    Next day, stir mixture by hand and spin in ice cream machine according to the directions that come with you machine