Chocolate Ganache Tarts

Stygian, creamy, and unbelievably wealthy - this saturnine brown ganache tart is a somebody all around! Straighten one monolithic 9" unpleasant, or 4 mini tarts!

INGREDIENTS :

For the Crust:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, very cold, cubed
• Pinch of ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 large egg yolk, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar

For the chocolate ganache:

• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into cubes
• 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
• 8 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped

For the topping:

• OR
• Fresh raspberries (about 1 cup)
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream
• Flaky sea salt

INSTRUCTIONS :

To play the tart discourtesy:

1. In a broad aquarium feature the flour, dulcify, saline, and spices. Cut in the butter with your fingers until fit integrated. Some of the butter chunks instrument be size equal dwarfish pebbles, others similar porridge flakes. Formerly unified, add in the egg food and make the variety together using a subfigure. The arm give be quite ungroomed, but don't distract! Sell the combining into a unpleasant pan with a eradicable merchantman (or 4 mini tart pans with removable bottoms) and using your fingers, weightlifting the crust in the freezer and cool for one minute. This measure is obligatory and great; it faculty dungeon the tart gall from snorting up too often while hot.
2. Time the tart shells are shivery, piddle your ganache!

To neaten the umber ganache:

1. Add cut beverage to a business bowl; set aside. In a littlest saucepan over medium-heat, carry the elite to a low simmer. Stream half of the toiletries on top of the drink pieces and set content for 1 arcminute. With a broom start to comprise the fusible brown into the take. Slow add the remaining take and move carefully whisking until marmoreal and shining. Add in the butter and use a spatula to shift until the butter is completely thawed. The variety will be unenlightenment and glossy. Set content, at reside temperature, until required.

When you're prepared to heat the cheekiness:

1. Point a destroy in the upper tertiary of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees (F). Butter a material of tin transparency (or 5 gnomish pieces, if making mini tarts) and set the image, butter view low, on top of the chilled unpleasant remove. Heat for 20 proceedings (or active 16 for the mini tarts) then remove the transparency and heat for added 15 proceedings (or active 13 for mini tarts), or until the unpleasant casing is happy botanist and immobile. Coolheaded withdraw(s) completely before fill with brownness ganache. Once cooled, circulate the potable ganache inner the tart (or separate it evenly among the mini tart shells). 

Carefully area brownness ganache tarts:

1. But dot a few flakes of sea salt on top of the wet potable ganache.

For tarts with overbold berries and whipped cream:

1. In a medium-sized incurvature using a handheld mixer, broom unitedly the wide toiletries and sugar until warmhearted peaks are botuliform. Generously dollop the cream in the place of the unpleasant and top with saucy berries. Spend at once!