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Peanut Butter Cream Tart

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Crust
1 1/2 cups 165g / 5.8ozFinely-ground chocolate wafer cookies - - (abt 24)
5 tablespoons 75mlUnsalted butter - melted
  Filling
6 oz 170gCream cheese - room temperature
3/4 cup 177mlCreamy peanut butter - room temperature
1 cup 237mlChilled whipping cream
1/2 cup 99g / 3.5ozPowdered sugar - plus
2 tablespoons 30mlPowdered sugar
1 teaspoon 5mlVanilla extract
1 oz 28gSemisweet chocolate - chopped

Recipe Instructions

For Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Mix cookie crumbs and butter in medium bowl until moist clumps form. Press mixture onto bottom and up sides of prepared tart pan. Bake until set, about 10 minutes. Cool completely.

For Filling: Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and peanut butter in large bowl until smooth. Using clean dry beaters, beat cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla to soft peaks in another large bowl. Whisk half of whipped cream mixture into peanut butter mixture. Fold in remaining whipped cream mixture. Transfer 3 tablespoons filling to small bowl and reserve. Spread remaining filling in crust.

Melt chocolate in top of double boiler set over simmering water. Whisk in reserved 3 tablespoons filling. Immediately transfer chocolate mixture to pastry bag fitted with 1/8-inch plain tip. Pipe chocolate mixture in spiral atop filling. Using small sharp knife, begin at center and draw tip of knife toward edge of tart. Move knife over 2 inches; begin at edge and draw tip of knife toward center. Repeat to form web pattern. Chill until cold. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Keep chilled.) Cut tart into wedges and serve cold.

This recipe yields 8 servings.

Description:

"Every small town in Georgia seems to have its own peanut-dessert specialty for the holidays. This one features a creamy no-bake peanut butter filling in a crisp chocolate-crumb crust."

Source:
Bon Appetit, December 2002

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