So I transform them into a dessert for Halloween dinner

With a crunchy base and a soft filling On the palate, chocolate tarts with meringue topping are an original, delicious and fun Halloween dessert.

Unlike the other desserts created ad hoc because they resemble body parts or hide a frightening surprise, these mini tarts they present themselves in a more guise delicateTaking advantage of the imagination of small chefs who, from a tuft of meringue, manage to tell stories of ghosts funny able to animate the party buffet.

Perfect, therefore, to be served during one more formal dinnerThe preparation is the classic one of the tarts: shortcrust pastry at the base made of flour and butter worked with the tip of the fingers, sugar, yolks and a pinch of salt to give the mixture a sparkling tip.

Guest star of this dessert for Halloween dinner It is the Italian meringue: egg whites, water and sugar for a super fluffy effect reminiscent of cartoon desserts.

To crown the mini chocolate tarts is the ganache Made of cream, dark chocolate and butter. A sweet and never cloying cream that caresses the palate in a kind way.

Ganache:

Tap the boiling to the cream, add the chopped chocolate, wait a few seconds and mix slowly from the center outwards, add the butter and mix again in the same way until it melts it.

Shortbread:

Mix butter at room temperature, sugar, pinch of salt and aromas, add the yolks flush and mix.

Mix the flour and knead as little as possible.

Let it rest two hours in the fridge, spread the pastry to make the tarts (base + edges), buckle and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Bake in a static and preheated oven for about 15 minutes.
Italian meringue:

In a saucepan, bring the granulated sugar and water to 121 ° C. In the meantime, whip the egg whites, make them foam and then add the sugar, continuing to whip.

Pour the syrup prepared twice.

Continue to mount until the container returns to room temperature and the meringue becomes beautiful soda.

The eyelets are made of sugar paste.
In place of the meringue you can use whipped cream.