The busy day / chocolate caramel tart

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I had a busy schedule today. Mainly DIY and baking. Couldn't really do anything in the morning except for shopping though, everything else would be too noisy. So I went to get breakfast and all the ingredients for the chocolate caramel tarts I wanted to make.

Baking is nicer in a well organised kitchen. Just like tools for DIY, tools for cooking/baking need to be proper and of good quality as well. I bought this Leifheit thing as a bargain yesterday and put it up today. Good start of the day :-)

I was also very eager to put the lock on my gate. To do this I needed 1 very large hole. In solid metal. I love DIY but I hate drilling holes in concrete or metal. Especially when they are 10 mm in diameter. I drilled it in 5 takes; 3.5, 4.5, 6, 8 and 10 mm.

When that was done I was able to put my lock on that I had also bought yesterday.

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I am very pleased with the results. I made this gate myself, all from scratch :-)

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My fortress ;-)

After all that DIY it was time for some baking. My birthday is coming up and I wanted to bake a few chocolate caramel tarts. 1 to take to Mic for desert and 5 to take to work. This is how it starts. Flower, sugar, cocoa, butter and egg.

Make dough and put it in the tin. I bought ceramic balls to put in as weight. This is handy for "blind" baking.

When that's done I started on the caramel. Sugar dissolved in water, bring it to the boil.

When it start to colour, put in butter and cream.

It will become a bit violent, keep on the heat and stir a lot. The butter and cream might cool things down and it might turn in to a lump. Just keep stirring until it's all dissolved again.

When it's all mixed well, you can pour it in. It should be creamy and soft.

I was making 6...

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Then there's also some chocolate action.

Boil cream.

When it boils, take off the heat and put in the chocolate which will melt slowly.

Keep stirring until you have a homogenous mixture.

My workmate came in very handy ;-)
It took me from 2 - 9 PM to make these...

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One of the 6 finished tarts, 1 day later.