Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate Cream Bites

Staring at my fridge, full of leftover mini bread puddings and Iron Cupcakes and various sweet experiments, I wasn't sure that I wanted to make another little dessert just so it would sit in my fridge. But, my love for Dorie and fear of being disowned by the other TWDers led me to these little babies.. Chocolate Cream bites!

The recipe for this week, chosen by Kim of Scrumptious Photography, is Dorie's Chocolate Cream Tart. I made the full recipe of chocolate tart dough, but only used 1/4 of it to make eight tiny shells. I made some changes to the cream filling recipe (see below) based on what I had in the house, and made 1/4 of it. I piped the cream filling into each tart shell and topped it with a little powdered sugar. Each little tart is 89 calories.. not too bad for a Dorie dessert!

My cream filling (makes enough for 8 bites, 1/4 of the original recipe):

1/2 cup 2% milk (instead of whole)
1 egg yolk
1 tbs sugar
2 tsp cornstarch
1 oz semi-sweet chocolate (Dorie uses bittersweet)
2 tsp butter

Follow Dorie's instructions!

*Find the original recipes here.

**Tuesdays with Dorie is a group of bloggers baking through Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours.