What can't be missing to prepare simple biscuits or fragrant pies? Shortcrust pastry, of course! There are those who love it with lemon, some with vanilla and some, like me, with cocoa: if you too are greedy and you can't resist chocolate, prepare the cocoa shortcrust pastry with me!
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- 340 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
- 200 g of white flour of type 00
- 100 g of frumina
- 35 g of bitter cocoa
- 100 g of powdered sugar
- 40 g (2 medium) of egg yolks
- 60 g of butter
- 80 ml of milk
- 2 g of baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
Materials Needed
- Scale weighs food
- Sieve
- Bowl
- Transparent film
Preparation
- In a bowl, collect the dry ingredients: white flour, wheat starch, bitter cocoa, baking powder, salt and powdered sugar. Mix the dry ingredients with the butter at room temperature to form a sandy mixture.
Did you know that
Shortcrust pastry normally requires the use of a greater quantity of butter. To contain calories, we recommend using only 60 g of butter and mixing the dough with milk.
Yeast for cakes is an ingredient not always present in the shortcrust pastry recipe: in this version we recommend it to obtain a softer dough.- At this point, combine the two egg yolks and the milk: knead until a soft and compact dough is obtained.
- Wrap the dough in a sheet of cling film and let it rest for at least half an hour in the fridge: in this way, rolling out the dough will be easier.
- The shortcrust pastry is ready to be rolled out to prepare pies or shortbread biscuits. With these ingredients, you can prepare a tart with a diameter of 22 or 24 cm.
- It can be kept in the fridge for 3 days or in the freezer for 3 months.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
Do you like a more intense flavor? Enrich the mixture with a spoonful of soluble coffee powder dissolved in a little warm milk: in this way, the cocoa flavor will be even more pronounced! Another delicious variant involves enriching the mixture with chopped nuts of your choice !Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Shortcrust pastry with cocoa is a recipe that falls into the category of pastry bases.
It has a high calorie intake, mainly provided by carbohydrates, followed by lipids and finally by proteins.
Carbohydrates are mainly complex, saturated fatty acids and peptides of high and medium biological value.
Fiber is very abundant, as is cholesterol.
Shortcrust pastry with cocoa is not suitable for the diet of overweight subjects and those suffering from metabolic pathologies, such as: hypercholesterolemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertriglyceridemia.
Contains gluten, which is why it is excluded from nutrition for celiac disease.
There are small concentrations of lactose; therefore, people who are more sensitive to milk sugar should consume it carefully.
It is not suitable for the vegan philosophy, but it has no contraindications for the vegetarian one.
The average portion of shortcrust pastry with cocoa depends on the recipe in which it is used.
