Recipe - Death By Chocolate Truffle Tart With Espresso Sauce

1 One half cup Chocolate Wafer crumbs
6 tablespoon Sweet Butter
Filling:
12 ounce Semisweet Chocolate
One half cup Heavy cream
1 Stick sweet butter,
Cut into bits and softened
2 tablespoon Kahlua Liqueur (or other of
Your choice)
1 Pinch salt
Sauce:
One half cup Whipping cream
4 tablespoon Sugar
One fourth cup Butter
1 teaspoon Finely ground Expresso
Coffee, to 1One half ts

Crush or grind fine chocolate wafers in food processor. Melt butter and
blend into crumbs. Pat into tart or pie pan. Chill untilfirm before
filling
or bake at 300 degrees for 15 minutes, cool,and fill.

Filling: In a large saucepan combine the chocolate, cream, butter, and
Kahlua and heat the mixture over moderately low heat, stirring until it is
smooth. Remove from heat, allow to cool for 30 minutes at room temperature.
Pour into cooled tart shell and refrigerate forat least 3 hours.

Sauce: In a saucepan, combine cream, sugar, and butter. Cook over low
heat,stirring frequently, until mixture boils. Boil 5 minutes, stirring
occasionally. Remove from heat. Stir in expresso grounds.

To serve, spoon a moderate amount of warm sauce on a rimmed plate. Top
with
a wedge of tart.

Crust:

From: Donna Ransdell Date: 13 Feb 96

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #152

Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 05:39:21 0400

From: Francine Boucher fboucher@sympatico.ca