Chocolate-Earl Grey Tea Tarts

I like to try new things, so last weekend I tried making a chocolate ganache tart in which you steep heavy cream and earl grey tea, and add it to bittersweet chocolate to make an earl grey-enriched ganache.

I really like earl grey tea so I thought it might be good. My recipe also included instructions for a lemon shortbread crust, which sounded like an intriguing combination to me.

How did it turn out? Well, the tarts were really easy to make. I find cookie crusts a lot easier to deal with than pastry crusts, and ganache is a snap to make. I was a little disappointed in the taste of the ganache though--I did not taste the flavor of the tea much and I think it only served to make the ganache more bitter than it already was with the bittersweet chocolate, which was too bitter for me. The crust, on the other hand, was great. The recipe has you use part rice flour, which makes for a crispier crust. The dough was flavored only with lemon zest, which made the crust taste fresh and not overly sweet. I enjoyed the crust so much that I used the left over dough to make shortbread cookies, and they were awesome.

Here's the recipe.