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This No-Bake Chocolate Ganache Tart is rich and creamy, elegant, and easy to make. No baking required.
Looking for more fancy desserts? Check out these impressive and delicious ways to end the meal: Coconut Meringue Cake with Lemon Curd Filling, Almond Cake {with a gluten-free option}, and Chocolate Bread Pudding with Bourbon Butter Sauce.
A nice chocolate crust topped with some special Valrhona Blonde chocolate (read below for more info on this amazing chocolate) ganache.
This tart will be perfect for holiday parties!
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Nabisco Famous Wafers
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Unfortunately, Nabisco has stopped making their famous wafers. So what can you use instead?
You can buy any plain chocolate cookie from the store. Amazon sells Oreo cookies with no filling as well. Oreo thins are a great option. You can scrape the filling from between Oreo cookies (but who wants to do that!). Here’s another brand that’s gluten free. And Goya Chocolate Maria cookies are an option. You could also make your own homemade chocolate cookies.
French foods
You may remember a few months ago I posted a recipe for Brie Butter Sauce Crepes.
Wow they were good!
I decided that I needed to make something utterly French and divine with some of this new Valrhona Blonde chocolate.
I hadn’t heard of Blond Chocolate before, and I was really intrigued. This Orelys 35% Blonde Chocolate uses muscovado sugar. It’s this muscovado sugar that gives the unique natural color of light bronze.
Muscovado sugar is a type of brown sugar with a strong molasses content and flavor. Thus, the pretty toasty brown color. Valrhona Blond chocolate also has a nice creamy texture. The flavor is nice and caramel-y, not too sweet and not too bitter. Perfect with a pinch of salt in desserts.
VALRHONA
Valrhona is a French bean to bar Chocolate maker.
Dulcey 32%, baking bar. During a pastry demonstration, Valrhona Corporate Pastry Chef Frédéric Bau accidentally left white chocolate in a bain-marie for too long. After realizing what happened, he noticed that the color had turned blond.
What does it taste like? Dulcey is a 4th color of chocolate (after the White, Milk and Dark). Where to buy: on Valrhona online boutique.
If you can’t find this chocolate, or don’t want to buy a special chocolate, you can use your favorite. White chocolate, milk chocolate, even dark chocolate will work. You can also combine the types of chocolate to get a lighter color – say some white chocolate and some milk chocolate. Of course, the different chocolates will all have different flavors.
Orelys 35% baking bag. Five years after creating DULCEY 32%, Valrhona once again distinguishes itself in the Blond category by using its chocolate expertise with a new star ingredient: dark muscovado sugar.
Where to buy: on Valrhona online boutique.
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Recipe
No-Bake Blonde Chocolate Ganache Tart
Ingredients
Crust:
- 9 ounces Nabisco Famous chocolate wafers
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
Filling:
- 8 ounces Valrhona Orelys 35% Blonde chocolate chopped
- 4 ounces Valrhona Dulcey 32% Blonde chocolate chopped
- pinch salt
- ¾ cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 ounce Valrhona Dulcey 32% Blonde chocolate chopped
- raspberries for garnish if desired
Instructions
- Break wafers into smaller pieces, and place in a food processor; pulse until fine crumbs. Add butter to cookie crumbs, and process until well blended. Press the cookie mixture into the bottom and up the sides of a removable-bottom tart pan. Freeze crust while preparing filling.
- Place the 8 ounces chopped 35% Blonde chocolate, 4 ounces chopped 32% Blonde chocolate, and salt in a medium bowl. In a small saucepan, heat the cream and the butter until the butter is melted and the cream is steaming (scalded). Pour the cream mixture over the chocolate, and whisk until smooth.
- Pour chocolate ganache mixture over crust, and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight.
- Melt 1 ounce 32% blonde chocolate in a microwaveable bowl in 30-second increments, stirring after each time, until melted, and drizzle over tart. Garnish with raspberries.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations, and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.
sue
I’m fascinated by blonde chocolate, I did a macadamia bark last year that blew me away, love this no bake tart!
Emily
I love no bake desserts, this looks to die for. Definitely saving this!
Jacqueline Meldrum
I love a good tart and this one looks awesome. I was planning on making an apple pie today, but now I’m not so sure.
Ginny
I also have not heard of blonde chocolate but I’ve sure heard of Valrhona chocolate and have bought a lot of it What a beautiful line-up of wines too. I have pinned this article so I can check back on the labels. Needless to say your No-Bake Blonde Chocolate Ganache Tart is amazing!
Jeni
I love that this is no bake. I also love chocolate of any shade, lol. Great in depth explanation here. I’m now craving all the wine, cheese, and chocolate!
Lisa Bryan
I love Valrhona chocolate as well and a no bake tart sounds fab during the holidays!
Emma
Wow I’m a huge chocolate fan but have also never heard of blonde chocolate. I’m going to have to hunt some down so I can make this 🙂
Thanh
I’m familiar with a lot of the brands you have mentioned here and think it’s pretty exciting that they are available in the US! Valrhona chocolate is a premium quality chocolate and I love to both eat and cook and with it. This tart sounds like it shows off the chocolate perfectly 🙂
Trang
I love Valrhona chocolate, and this tart sounds amazing!
Sam
Wow this tart sounds incredible!! It will be perfect for the holidays!
Natalie
Beautiful Photography!! Thanks so much for sharing all of this information on yummy French foods! I look forward to trying these!
Carrie
umm, holy yummm!! this looks so divine!!
brandid
You had me at no bake. This looks fabulous!
thefoodblognet
That chocolate looks amazing, and so does your tart! Do you know if this blond chocolate is available in Canada?
Tiffany
What an elegant chocolate tart! Perfect for the holidays.
queen
You got me at no bake. And the tart looks so clean and yum.
Becky
No bake is my kind of dessert, even though I make others, I’d prefer no bakes. This one looks like a winner!
Catherine
This is so beautiful and I love that it’s no-bake! I wish I had a slice of this right now.
Gloria Duggan
I host ALL the special occasions/holidays in my house. I know for a fact this would be the perfect dessert for any …. and I know someone that would love this as a birthday dessert.
Veena Azmanov
Oh this is such a treat. I did not know Valrhona made blond chocolate. I must look for them soon. We love ganache tart in our home and it’s a perfect quick dessert to put together. So easy!