HALLOWEEN LINZER TARTS
Here we have the famous Linzer tart in a perfect Halloween style: monodose version with chocolate eyes! Funny and delicious!!
Ingredients
For the linzer tarts:
- 80 g toasted and peeled hazelnuts
- 70 g shelled hazelnuts
- 100 g white sugar
- 30 g brown sugar
- 150 g flour
- 1 pinch of salt
- 150 g diced very cold butter
- 3 hard-boiled egg yolks L size eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 pinch of powdered cloves
- 1 natural lemon
- flaked almonds
- 200 g red currant jam or raspberry or cranberry
To decorate
- 12 white chocolate covered hazelnuts for the eyes
- 50 g dark chocolate
Instructions
- Prepare the shortcrust pastry for the Linzer tarts: chop the hazelnuts very finely together with white sugar and put them into a bowl.
- Add brown sugar, the flour, the pinch of salt, the cinnamon, the cloves and the grated lemon peel: mix.
- Now add the very cold butter and the hard-boiled egg yolks and start working the dough in the bowl: as soon as it starts to compact, transfer it to the pastry board and finish the preparation.
- Form a ball, wrap it in plastic and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- After the resting time, line 6 tartlet molds of 10 cm in diameter.
- Fill them with two tablespoons of jam and decorate with rolls of dough: the idea is to form an irregular grid, as if the rolls were mummy bandages.
- Decorate the outline of your Linzer Tarts with flaked almonds and put back in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Turn on the oven at 170 °C in fan mode and cook the tartlets for about 20 minutes.
- Let them cool completely and, in the meantime, prepare the eyes: melt the dark chocolate in the microwave and use it to draw a dot in the center of the chocolate-covered hazelnuts.
- Decorate the linzer tarts with the little eyes and enjoy them!
Notes
- The next day they'll be even better!
- They can be stored at room temperature covered with aluminium foil: they remain perfect for 4 days.
- As an alternative to the chocolate-covered hazelnuts, you can use smarties, sugar sprinkles or white sweets to make the eyes (always with a dot of chocolate!).