Milk Chocolate Crémeux Tart

Name: Milk Chocolate Crémeux Tart
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 , large egg; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1½ cups (7½ ounces/213 grams), all-purpose flour; 2/3 cup (2⅔ ounces/75 grams), confectioners' sugar; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch pieces and chilled; 1 cup, half-and-half; 4 , large egg yolks; 1 tablespoon, unsweetened cocoa powder (optional); ⅜ teaspoon, table salt; 12 ounces (340 grams), milk chocolate, chopped fine; 1½ teaspoons, vanilla extract; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and hot

Desserts or Baked Goods
French
Chocolate
Make Ahead

By Andrea Geary ･ Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2022, America's Test Kitchen TV

This crisp, elegantly slim, and shockingly simple pâte sucrée crust should be in every baker's back pocket.

SERVES 8 to 10

TIME 1½ hours, plus 3 hours 40 minutes freezing, cooling, and chilling

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