RECIPE! Trick and #Treatup this Halloween with Lily Vanilli’s amazingly tasty spooky tarts which will delight your taste buds all year round

RECIPE! Trick and #Treatup this Halloween with Lily Vanilli’s amazingly tasty spooky tarts which will delight your taste buds all year round

Lily Vanilli’s Baileys Chocolate Tarts with Meringue Ghosts are ghoulishly good

Halloween is coming and the ghosts are getting fat… Forget the tricks this Halloween and instead treat your tastebuds to these spooktacular Baileys Chocolate Tarts with Meringue Ghosts from cake baking sorceress Lily Vanilli.

With sumptuous rich chocolate sponge, the devilishly indulgent tarts are drenched in luxuriously smooth dark chocolate ganache infused with velvety Baileys, and topped with ghostly white meringues, for truly spooky treats that will leave you howling for more.

Perfect for making at home, these tasty trick-or-treats are sure to cast a spell, and infused with Baileys, they’re proof Halloween’s not just for kids.

However, if you’ve not got the time to bake them this Halloween, these delicious spooky tarts will be available in Lily Vanilli’s Bakery on Columbia Road.

Lily Vanilli’s Baileys Chocolate Tarts with Meringue Ghosts

Recipe:

Makes 10

Ingredients

250g Unsalted Butter room temp

100g granulated sugar

1 egg

140g rye flour sifted

85g cocoa

Method:

1. In a mixer fitted with the paddle with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed until creamy – (1-2 mins)

2. add the egg & mix just to combine

3. scrape down your bowl

4. then add the flour and cocoa and mix to combine evenly

5. wrap in cling film and chill your dough for a minimum of 1 hour, but preferably overnight

When ready to roll, bring the pastry out and leave to soften until just able to roll it, don’t leave it to get too soft as it is quite a wet dough. Roll your pastry out on a lightly floured surface to around 4mm thickness and cut rings of dough to fit your pastry ring of choice (or use a cupcake pan if you prefer, just make sure it’s well greased.

Return to the fridge for another hour, then line each tart with a little square of baking paper filled to the brim with pastry weights (or a substitute like raw chickpeas).

Bake for 45 mins or until crisp throughout.

Allow to cool completely while you make your ganache.

For the ganache

450ml double cream

500g dark chocolate (chopped into small pieces)

50ml Baileys Chocolat Luxe (0.8 units)

Heat the cream in a heavy bottomed saucepan until just bubbling. then tip it over your chocolate and add the Baileys Chocolat Luxe. Leave it to melt completely and then stir until smooth.

Pour your ganache into each tart to the rim.

(optional – add a layer of Baileys salt caramel to the base of each tart by following the recipe at lilyvanilli.com.)

For the ghosts

170g egg white

255g caster sugar

Method

1. Preheat Oven to 100c

2. Place everything in a clean metal or glass bowl over a pan of simmering water

3. Stirring and scraping constantly, heat to 79°C, (8-10 minutes)

4. Transfer to stand mixer with whisk attachment and whip at high speed until meringue is glossy and beginning to ball up inside the whisk, (about 5 mins)

5. Now, on a baking tray lined with paper, pipe out blobs of meringue to form the body of each ghost, flicking the arms up at the side with the back of a spoon or a toothpick.

6. Transfer to the oven to dry out at 100c – around 1 hour (check the bases to see if they are set through)

7. Once cooled, use a paintbrush and black food colouring to paint their faces.