Heart cake with kinder – kinder heart tart for valentine's day

Ingredients

Shortcrust pastry:

• 120 g softened butter
• 80 g icing sugar
• 25 g ground almonds
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 200 g flour

Mascarpone whipped cream:

• 250 g mascarpone
• 400 ml heavy cream (30% fat)
• 60 g icing sugar
• 1 vanilla bean

Kinder decoration:

• 1 Kinder Maxi
• 1 Kinder Country
• 1/2 Kinder Bueno
• 1/2 Kinder Bueno White
• 8 Kinder Schoko-Bons

Materials

• bowl, baking sheet, plastic wrap, piping bag

Preparation

• Put softened butter, icing sugar, vanilla sugar, almond meal, and salt into a bowl. Mix everything until you obtain a smooth cream. Add the egg and mix well.
• Add the flour and mix by hand until you have a smooth dough. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, flatten it, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
  
• Divide the dough into 2 portions. Place one portion on a sheet of parchment paper, cover it with a second sheet, then roll the dough out thinly.
• Draw or print a half-heart shape on an A4 sheet, cut it out, and place it on the dough. Cut around the half-heart shape, reposition it symmetrically, and cut the second half of the heart.
  
• Repeat steps 3 and 4. Refrigerate before removing the excess shortcrust pastry (it will come off more easily afterward). After 30 minutes, remove the excess shortcrust pastry.
• Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool.
  
• Put the mascarpone, very cold cream, icing sugar, and seeds from the vanilla bean in a very cold bowl and whip at high speed to make the whipped cream.
• Place the first shortcrust heart on the serving plate. Using a piping bag, apply the whipped cream in small dollops over the entire surface of the shortcrust.
  
• Place the second shortcrust heart on top and pipe another layer of whipped cream over it.
• Decorate the top of the heart tart with pieces of Kinder.
  
• And there you have it, the Kinder heart tart is ready!

Observations

Shortcrust pastry:
• You can use two ready-made shortcrust pastry sheets instead.
• We recommend shaping the heart, then refrigerating the dough for 30 minutes before trimming off the excess.
• It's okay if your shortcrust pastry hearts break; the whipped cream will completely cover them, and your guests won't notice!

Filling:
• You can add crushed Kinder to the cream if you wish.
• You can use other types of Kinder, chocolates, or fruit, for example, to decorate your heart.

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