Baked Chocolate & Black Sesame Tart
With black sesame & orange ice cream
Hello! I’m back from holiday, I had an excellent time! This week I have a recipe that is a testament to trusting your gut and not being swayed by social media. At the start of the week, all I could think about was making a baked chocolate tart. I don’t know where this craving came from but that’s what I wanted and it’s all I could think about.
However, spring isn’t really the season for baked chocolate tart so I told myself that chocolate tart would have to wait for another day. After seeing seemingly everyone make the most beautiful mango products, I decided it was my turn! What came next was about 10 million (perhaps a slight exaggeration) tests of a mango and black sesame tart filled with coconut rice pudding. Sounds great right? Guys, this tart was not good. I tried infusing the rice pudding with different things, I faffed around with the pastry, the type of coconut milk I used, the list goes on…
The end result was a tart that was just… fine. It wasn’t bad but none of the flavours were popping and if there’s one thing about me it’s that I want the flavours to POP. I could’ve probably carried on messing about with this tart indefinitely until I was happy with it but sometimes I think it’s good to admit defeat and, for me, one of the main problems here is that, as much as I love mangoes, I don’t love them in desserts. I think the best way to eat a mango is completely plain, with your hands, over the kitchen sink whilst juice dribbles down your wrists.
