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Can there be such a thing as too much nutella?.. i think perhaps not. Nutella, it's like a faithful friend, consistent and always just the right thing! Nutella is sacred to the Italians, you find it everywhere you go anywhere in Italy, and really who can blame them. There is always a jar in my cupboard. So you can imagine the delight when i happened across a nutella tart recipe. Yum just the dessert for easter!!

The recipe comes from Pierre Herme.. Thank you Pierre!! Thank you Italia!!

Nutella Tart - The crust

*285g unsalted butter, room temp. *150g sifted confectioner's sugar

*1/2 c almond meal *1/2 tsp salt

*1/2 tsp vanilla extract *2lge eggs, room temp, lightly beaten

*3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour.

Put butter in mixer bowl with paddle attachment. Beat low speed till creamy. Add sugar, almond meal, salt, vanilla, and eggs. On low speed continue to beat ingredients. Add flour in 3/4 batches until mix comes together to form moist dough. Gather it into a ball, divide into 3/4 pieces (3 pieces for 3 26cm tarts..) Wrap in cling film. Allow dough to rest for 4 hours in fridge or up to 2 days, before rolling and baking (you can freeze this dough for one month).

When ready, roll dough out on lightly floured surface 2-4cm thick. Fit dough into tart pan, base and sides. prick dough all over with fork, chill 30mins in fridge. Preheat oven to 180C, blind bake crust 18-20mins, remove paper bake for further 5 mins. Remove from oven and completely cool.

For Filling

*200g nutella *140g good quality chocolate (70%) finely chopped

*200g unsalted butter *1 lge egg rom temp. stirred with fork

*3 lgr egg yolks, room temp, stirred with fork *2T sugar

*1 cup Hazelnuts toasted, skinned chopped in large pieces.

Preheat oven to 190C, spread nutella evenly over bottom of crust and set aside.

Melt chocolate and butter in seperate bowls, allow to cool.

Using small whisk stir egg into chocolate, little by little stir in egg yolks, then the sugar. Finally stir in the melted butter. Pour ganache over nutella in tart shell, scatter hazelnuts on top.

Bake tart for 11mins. Remove from oven, allow to cool... enjoy! Ange xx

Lvl Difficulty - Can watch tv at same time

Time - Aside from dough resting - flight syd-melb

End result - High fives all 'round