Chocolate Cherry Tart with Almond Whipped Cream
This Chocolate Cherry Tart with Almond Whipped Cream is the perfect treat for any chocolate lover in your life!
Before we get started on this recipe, I’m still celebrating my one-year blog birthday! So be sure to enter my giveaway for the Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook by Linsday Landis!!
This is my sixth month participating in the Improv Challenge, hosted by Kristen over at Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker. If you haven’t heard about the Improv Challenge, each month participants are assigned two ingredients to pair together to create a fun, new recipe. This month’s ingredients were cherries and almonds.
The toughest part of this challenge was not eating all of the cherries before I finished preparing this dessert.
Seriously, after I made the cherry sauce, I placed it in a bowl on the table for serving…and came into the dining room to find Doodle eating it directly out of the bowl. I couldn’t get too upset at him, since he turned to me with a serious look on his face and cherry juice dripping off his chin and said, “This is sooooo good, mom.”
Can’t say I disagree.
Although this dessert looks super fancy (at least it does to my pretty low-key household), it really was a breeze to make. I used my no-roll pie crust (although you could certainly use a pre-prepared crust from the refrigerated section), and the filling whipped up in just under 10 minutes. The almond whipped cream was a snap, and the added flavoring was really a nice complement to the chocolate and cherries.
If you have any chocolate lovers in your life, make this.
- Pre-bake your pie crust according to package directions, or use this recipe for a no-roll pie crust.
- 7 ounces top-quality bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- ¾ cup whipping cream
- ⅓ cup half-and-half
- 1 large egg
- ¾ pound pitted cherries
- 2 to 5 tablespoons sugar (adjust according to taste)
- ½ cup whipping cream
- ¾ teaspoon almond extract
- slivered almonds, for garnish
- Preheat oven to 250.
- Put chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl. Heat cream and half-and-half in a medium saucepan over medium heat until simmering, then pour over chocolate. Let sit a few minutes, then stir gently until smooth.
- Break egg into a separate medium bowl, then pour into chocolate mixture, whisking constantly until incorporated (keep whisk in contact with bottom of bowl so as not to whip in air bubbles).
- Pour mixture into the tart shell and bake until just set (no longer jiggles), 25 to 35 minutes. Let cool completely.
- Warm cherries in a saucepan over low heat with granulated sugar to taste until sugar melts. Whip cream with 2 tbsp. sugar and almond extract until soft peaks form.
- Cut tart into slices and serve each with a few cherries and a dollop of cream on top.
Check out my previous Improv entries:
Peanut Butter {and Peanut Butter Cup} and Jelly Bars
Buffalo Chicken Potato Skins with Blue Cheese and Cheddar Cheese
Carrot Cake Cookies with Dulce de Leche Buttercream
Lemon Cream Cupcakes with Raspberry Cheesecake Buttercream
Cranberry Muffins with Eggnog Cream
I’m linked up at these great parties this week: Crazy Sweet Tuesdays, Trick or Treat Tuesdays, Tasty Tuesdays, Totally Tasty Tuesdays, Cast Party Wednesday, Whip it Up Wednesdays, Watcha’ Whipped Up Wednesdays, Eat, Pray {Read}, Love, Sweet Treats Thursday, Mrs. Fox’s Sweets, Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons, Itsy Bitsy Paper, Crumbs and Chaos, I’m Lovin’ It Fridays, and Weekend Potluck!
And be sure to check out everyone else’s goodies!
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Chocolate and Cherries…and in this case almond are the perfect pair!
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This looks amazing – I wish I had a slice right now! Great Improv choice!
Pam @ The Meltaways recently posted..Improv Challenge: Homemade Maraschino Cherries
My husband would absolutely love this! I think I’ll be making this soon. Delicious choice for the Improv Challenge. 🙂
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You definitely outdid yourself this time!
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This looks so delicious and beautiful. I love chocolate and cherries together!
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looks delicious!
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I love the chocolate pie with cherries. What a gorgeous dessert.
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This looks and sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing
This looks and sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing
That is amazing looking! I can see why Doodle was eating it out of the bowl:-) LOVE!!!
That is amazing looking! I can see why Doodle was eating it out of the bowl:-) LOVE!!!
Chocolate and Cherries with Almonds; you and I had the same thought, Ashley! Delicious!
ICC #22
Robyn recently posted..Almonds and Cherries for the Improve Cooking Challenge
Happy anniversary to your blog! This tart sounds incredible…and your photos are wonderful~
beautiful pictures!
No surprise why Doodle was eating out of the bowl–this rocks. I love chocolate & cherries. And homemade cherry sauce? Amazeballs.
Hayley recently posted..Pretzel-Bottom Oatmeal Scotchie Bars
Oh my, Ashley! I could just dive in face-first into that chocolate filling, I do believe.
Melody♪♫ recently posted..almond flour crêpes with honey pastry cream & cherries
Sounds yummy!
Terry recently posted..Chocolate Tunnel of Love
This looks yummy! I made a tart, too, for the Improv challenge. I can’t wait to try your no-roll pie crust!
That looks stunning!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust recently posted..Cookies ‘n Cookie Dough Ice Cream
What a beautiful tart Ashley! Love how you’ve incorporated two types of almond ingredients for the Improv Challenge! (Is that bonus points?) 🙂 I had a similar problem with keeping the cherries around long enough to prepare a dish for the challenge. I bought fresh cherries twice… and B and I ate them all before I got to cooking.
Amber @ The Cook’s Sister recently posted..Improv Challenge: Cherries and Almonds
This was fabulous. Make it for me again please!!!!!!!!!!
As always Yummy and beautiful!
Chandra@the plaid and paisley kitchen recently posted..Black Forrest Parfaits with Almonds
Wow! This tart looks divine! And your pictures are just gorgeous! : )
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Isn’t it terrible, you used our two flavors, and I am seeing the CHOCOLATE? The cherries are delicious looking.
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Your pie is gorgeous! I have to say, I love the chocolate/cherry combo. Great choice for the Improv..
what BEAUTIFUL pictures! I love this recipe so much. Chocolate and cherries together are perfect. Kinda like pb + chocolate. 🙂 And that almond whipped cream has me going nuts. What a beautiful tart!
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Oh my gosh, that looks AMAZING! I love the idea of pairing cherry with chocolate. DIVINE!
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This looks amazing! I wish I had a slice right now!
I just saw your picture on FoodGawker and was drooling immediately! I had to come right over and tell you how insanely good this sounds (and looks!) Wonderful job. I’ll be making this very very soon. Yum!!
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Oh so pretty! Cherries have very high antioxidant content. Good for skin, and reverses aging. High in melatonin too, a sleep regulator. Putting all that in the backseat, this still looks delicious! =)
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wow…this is gorgeous!
Looks delicious!