Orange Tart with Chocolate Sauce

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Description

What is better than oranges and chocolate? This tart recipe combines them both with a wonderful filling and a shortbread crust.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter, room temperature
  • ¼ cup confectioners’ sugar
  • ½ teaspoon orange extract
  • 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
  • 1 (12 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 ¼ cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
  • ⅛ cup ricotta cheese
  • ⅛ cup mascarpone cheese
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 egg yolks
  • ¼ cup heavy cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 mandarin oranges, peeled and segmented
  • 1 navel orange, peeled and segmented
  • 1 blood orange, peeled and segmented
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 1 cup dark chocolate chips
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter

Instructions

  1. Beat butter and confectioners’ sugar in a bowl using an electric mixer until light and fluffy
  2. about 3 minutes. Pour in orange extract; mix thoroughly to combine
  3. about 1 minute. Mix in sifted flour a little at a time until thoroughly combined. Cover crust mixture with plastic wrap; chill for 1 hour.
  4. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
  5. Place chilled dough on a lightly floured work surface. Roll with a lightly floured rolling pin to 1/3-inch thickness.
  6. Line a 10-inch (1-inch high) tart pan with the dough; prick with a fork.
  7. Mix cream cheese
  8. sifted confectioners’ sugar
  9. ricotta cheese
  10. mascarpone cheese
  11. and flour in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed
  12. scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula after each addition. Add eggs
  13. egg yolks
  14. and heavy cream at the same time and mix thoroughly. Stir in vanilla extract. Pour filling mixture into prepared crust.
  15. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour.
  16. While the tart is baking
  17. combine mandarin oranges
  18. navel orange
  19. blood orange
  20. and sugar in a bowl.
  21. Remove tart from oven. Fan orange segments in a pattern of three in a circle around the tart
  22. working your way to the middle. Return tart to oven.
  23. Bake until fully set and oranges become golden
  24. but do not burn
  25. about 30 minutes more. Let cool completely.
  26. While tart cools
  27. melt dark chocolate chips in a double boiler. Stir in butter until melted; remove from heat. Drizzle chocolate sauce over each tart slice before serving.

Prep Time: 50 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 40 mins

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins

Servings: 10

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