Hazelnut Chocolate French Pie

Name: Hazelnut Chocolate French Pie
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 70g butter; 140g Low-gluten flour; 70g Powdered sugar; 30g egg; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 50g hazelnut; 160g Dark chocolate sauce; Some Whole egg liquid

by Junzhi

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

1h 30m

Serving

2

It seems that in 2006, Wedome launched a "French Mooncake" before the Mid-Autumn Festival. It seems that customers are buying it. So in recent years, every Mid-Autumn Festival, not only has there been more and more advertisements for Wedome's "French Mooncake". And other bakery shops have followed suit one after another, and various "French moon cakes" have emerged one after another.
When I first saw the name "French Mooncake", I was quite curious. Everyone knows that the Mid-Autumn Festival is our traditional Chinese holiday, and moon cakes are also our traditional Chinese desserts. When did "French moon cakes" pop up? Does France also have a Mid-Autumn Festival?
Until now, I don't like the name French mooncakes. Of course there is no Mid-Autumn Festival in France, nor does France have moon cakes. The so-called French moon cakes are, in the final analysis, our Chinese invention. It's just that, unlike traditional mooncakes, French pastry-making techniques are used when making them, so they are called "French". After investigating it, it has nothing to do with moon cakes, because regardless of the raw materials, methods, and taste, they are not in the slightest similar to traditional moon cakes.
Despite its name, this "moon cake" is really a very delicious snack. The pie crust made of rich butter has a unique flavor, and when paired with chocolate filling or jam, it has a "French" feel. Not as moon cakes, as afternoon tea or breakfast, it is actually very good, even if it's not the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can make it and taste it when there is nothing to do, so I still recommend everyone to try it-today's dim sum is A similar "French Mooncake", but since I have already stated that I don't like the name of the French mooncake, let's call it "French Pie".
Finally, I sigh: "French", a romantic-looking word, is associated with mooncakes, and the effect is really good. In this era where we must constantly introduce new ideas, if the merchants see this trick, they will launch "American style". "Moon cakes", "Italian-style moon cakes", "Russian-style moon cakes" and the like, will everyone still buy it?

Ingredients

70g Butter
140g Low-gluten Flour
70g Powdered Sugar
30g Egg
1/4 teaspoon Salt
50g Hazelnut
160g Dark Chocolate Sauce
Some Whole Egg Liquid

Hazelnut Chocolate French Pie

1. First make the hazelnut chocolate filling. Put the hazelnuts in the oven and bake at 170 degrees for 5-7 minutes. After roasting the aroma, take them out to cool, remove the skin, cut into small pieces, and mix the chocolate sauce and the chopped hazelnuts together

2. Stir evenly and serve as a hazelnut chocolate filling (dark chocolate sauce can be purchased as a commercially available product. If you can't buy it, you can also mix 80 grams of animal whipped cream and 80 grams of dark chocolate, heat and stir until it is completely melted, then cool and solidify and serve. .PS: Can’t use the very thin chocolate sauce from "Hershey")

3. Next, make the pie crust: cut the butter into small cubes and soften at room temperature, add salt and mix well

4. Add powdered sugar, whip the butter slightly (don't whip too hard); add the beaten eggs in two times and beat them evenly

5. Sift the flour in, mix the flour and butter with a rubber spatula to form a soft crust dough; take 30 grams of the crust dough, flatten it into a circle, and squeeze 20 grams of hazelnut chocolate filling

6. Wrap the chocolate filling with a pie crust, and put the wrapped dough into a circular mold with the mouth facing down. After making all the mooncakes, brush a layer of egg liquid on the surface

7. Use a fork to cross the surface of the mooncake with a few patterns as decoration, then put it in a preheated 185 degree oven, bake for 20-25 minutes, bake it until the surface is golden and ready to be out.

Tips:
1. The filling of this pie can be replaced with various fillings according to your preference. Generally speaking, it is mainly jam, cheese filling and chocolate filling. Different fillings will affect the taste of the crust. For example, if a jam with a higher moisture content is used as the filling, the baked crust will absorb the moisture of the filling during the preservation process and become softer. If it is filled with hazelnut chocolate, the crust will remain firm all the time;
2. If the cake crust is too soft when it is wrapped, it is not easy to pack, especially when you choose a very wet filling (such as sauce), you can directly squeeze a layer of cake crust into the mold with a piping bag For the batter, squeeze the filling in the middle, and finally squeeze a layer of batter to cover;
3. Brush the surface of the pie with egg yolk liquid instead of the whole egg liquid, the baked color will be more golden.