Chocolate Crostata

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ok i confess i cheated,used that cresent dough in the tube that comes in sheets for crust. i did use cho fill and they were great gave 4 stars cause didn't make crust

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i tried this recipe yesterday and very disappointed with the crust.felt like a hard cookie and not like a crostata.i researched some recipes for crostata and it says u need 1 1/4 cups of flour to 1 stick of butter ratio. guess the ratio is not correct and so was the texture of the crostata.

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Ok, so I cheated. I did not make the crust. I bought a ready made pie crust. I did make the chocolate and WOW! You can just taste a hint cinnamon and then the orange gives it an unexpected zing. I will be making this again. Maybe next time I'll make the crust too.

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I made all the recipes from this episode today (as it aired on tv this morning :

I loved the meatballs....the sour cream really did make a difference not only in the flavor, but they were really moist!!

I deconstructed the artichoke dish... I used can artichoke hearts (in water instead of whole artichokes and instead of stuffing them, I mixed all the ingredients and put in a baking dish topped with bread crumbs, pecorino romano cheese (which I subbed for the parm and canola oil (cause I was out of EVOO. I also subbed part skim mozzarella instead of the fontina (though I love fontina, its considerably more money. Baked it at 350 for 45 min and broiled, just as the recipe said.

As for the crostatas, I decided to halve the recipe as it was just my bf and I eating dinner. The ganache turned out fine, however the crust was a bit strange. Probably will make the full dough recipe and freeze half next time. Also, I thought it was strange that it didnt call for an egg wash but skipped it anyways and wish I hadnt. Crust didnt brown....Served it with sour cream and was pleasantly surprised..

DEFINITELY will make all of these recipes again.......

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I made this dessert for my ladies book club and it was such a hit. Everyone asked for the recipe and one lady actually took my printed copy. Recipe was easy to make. I made the dough and after it chilled, I cut out the circles and refrigerated them until I was ready to serve the dessert, then all I had to do was put a scoop of the chocolate in there and bake it. I served mine with raspberries and a small scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

The hint of lemon in the crust was wonderful and the orange and cinnamon in the ganache was incredible. I had a lot of chocolate left over and had a few spoon fulls yesterday for dessert all by itself.

This will be one of my favorites.

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the ganache was creamy smooth and chocolatey. the perfect touch of cinnamon. I don't usually like cinnamon in my chocolate but it fit well in this. i didn't have an orange so i skipped the zest. I thought the crust tasted like a regular pie crust and it didn't seem to go with the warm gooey chocolate. I did not care for the hint of lemon zest in the crust (tasted like it needed a fruit filling rather than chocolate along with the chocolate but maybe it would have been okay if i had used orange zest. I would definatly use the chocolate recipe again but find something else to put it on. Giada on everyday italian has a great recipe for crostata (i think she used an apple filling i might try it again using her recipe.