Halwai December 15, 2021

Ingredients:

• For Tart Shell:
• Refined flour – 250 gms
• Castor Sugar – 100 gms
• White Butter – 200 gms
• eggs – 2 nos
• For the filling:
• Chocolate sponge crumbs – 165 gms
• Cream – 70 gms
• eggs – 3 nos
• White Butter – 192 gms
• Golden syrup – 720 gms
• Doda burfee – 100 gms

Method:

  1. Mix all the ingredients for tart shell together to make a sweet paste.
  2. Roll the paste into a sheet of 0.5 cm thickness and line the tart mould, 9 inches wide and 1.5 inches deep, with this sheet properly.
  3. Bake the tart shell at 150 degree celcius for 30 minutes.
  4. To make the filling, reduce white butter in a sauce pan on low flame till dark yellow in colour.
  5. Add golden syrup and boil, remove scum if appears.
  6. Stir in the mixture of cream and eggs.
  7. Remove from flame and mix with sponge crumb.
  8. Fill the baked tart shell with this mixture, top with small chunks of doda burfi and bake at 150 degree celcius for 40 min.
  9. Remove from oven, cool down to room temperature and cut into desired pieces.
  10. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Recipe courtesy of Chef Manish Mehrotra