Chocolate Chips Cheese Tarts

Ingredient

Method

Tart base Filling: 90g Cream cheese, soften 10g butter 1 B Egg yolk 8g Cornstarch 40g Sour cream 25g Milk 45g dark chocolate coins 1tbsp cocoa powder 1tsp coffee powder 1tsp vanilla essence 1 B Egg white 30g Granulated sugar 3ml lemon juice/rice vinegar

1. Microwave dark chocolate coins, milk and coffee powder until melted. Set aside.  2. Place cream cheese into a bowl and use a whisk to cream it. Add the butter, egg yolk to the cream cheese. Combine well. 3. Add sour cream, milk, melted chocolate, cocoa powder, vanilla essence and corn starch and mix well. 4. In another bowl, add the egg whites, lemon juice and granulated sugar and whip with a whisk until soft peaks form. If you whip it too much, it will separate when baked, so be careful! 5. Add 1/3 of the egg whites to cheese batter. Mix it in using cutting motions by scooping up from the bottom of the mixture. Add the rest of the egg whites and combine with a rubber spatula equally while keeping the air bubbles intact. 6. Spoon the chocolate batter into tart base. 7. Bake @ 170C for 25 minutes until cooked. 8. Let it refrigerate for a couple of hours before serve.  *makes abt 12-14 tarts