Baileys Chocolate Tart!
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A rich and luxurious Baileys chocolate tart with a chocolate biscuit shell, rich Baileys chocolate ganache filling, and Baileys whipped cream on top!
Baileys chocolate tart
It’s the most wonderful timeee of the yearrrrr. And I am completely and utterly full to the brim of chocolate and Baileys. So, why not make that even better, by adding in a Baileys chocolate tart?! OH HELLO!
Yeah so it’s a week till Christmas now… ONE WEEK. And I still think there will be people out there who haven’t quite worked out what they are baking for the big day. One thing I can honestly appreciate is when you know you have oodles of cooking to do… do you really want to bake something?!
I often do, but I often also make a no-bake dessert as well. These tend to be easier, you don’t need the oven on, and you can make them a few days ahead with no issues. I love a no-bake dessert as we all know, so this one takes the biscuit!
Base
I decided to make this tart a really luxurious and delightful dessert by making it as indulgent as I could, without taking it too far. I wanted a simple biscuit base as my other tarts have, such as my billionaires tart, s’mores tart, and Biscoff tart.
I just adore a biscuit base, as it’s the same as a cheesecake base, but works so well when making a no-bake tart! I decided to make it chocolatey by adding in cocoa powder, and I just adore it! You can easily make it non-chocolate by taking out the cocoa powder however.
Filling
For the filling, I wanted it to be extremely luxurious and indulgent and rich. It’s designed to be a showstopper of a dessert, and this seemed the only way! I followed a similar idea to my Billionaires Tart, but obviously adapted it to be Baileys themed, and without the caramel!
The filling does seem very runny when you make it, and you’ll probably wonder whether it will actually set – but it does, and it’s worth the worry. Oh my actual days, it tasted so much better than I thought it would – I made it several more times.
Baileys
I used the original baileys, but you can easily use a flavoured or themed one if you prefer – but I just love the OG. The chocolate one would obviously work well too – but I do think the original is better for the whipped cream on top.
I’m sure that the alternatives to baileys that you can get from other shops and other brands will also work, they just need to be the full fat cream based liqueurs as well to make sure that it sets.
Decoration
For the cream on top, it will be slightly softer than your regular whipped cream, but it still does pipe well – I think it looks good, and it tasted INSANE. Top that with some grated flakes of chocolate, and you are set! It doesn’t need too much more, and this tart will serve plenty as it’s so rich.
I used a 2d closed star piping tip for the decoration, and with the baileys whipped cream it pipes beautifully. I hope you all love this delicious indulgent Baileys chocolate tart as much as I did – enjoy!!
Baileys Chocolate Tart!
Ingredients
Biscuit Shell
- 300 g digestives
- 35 g cocoa powder
- 150 g unsalted butter (melted)
Baileys Chocolate Filling
- 175 g dark chocolate
- 175 g milk chocolate
- 300 ml double cream
- 150 ml Baileys
- 50 g unsalted butter
Topping
- 125 ml double cream
- 25 ml Baileys
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- Grated chocolate
Instructions
For the Biscuit Base
- Blitz your biscuits in a food processor, or bash them up to a very fine crumb in a bowl.
- Add in the cocoa powder, and mix.
- Add in the melted butter, and mix to a wet sand texture!
- Press into the bottom and sides of a 23cm loose bottomed tart tin for best results!
For the filling
- Chop your chocolate up finely, and cube your butter to as small as you can. Add to a large bowl.
- Add your double cream and Baileys to a pan, and heat until just before boiling point.
- Pour the mixture over the chocolate/Baileys and whisk/stir until smooth. If there are any lumps that haven't quite melted, whack the mixture in the microwave for 10 seconds at a time until melted fully!
- Once melted - pour the mixture into the tart tin. Sometimes I find this easier to do in the fridge, to save me having to carry the full shell of runny liquid.
- Leave the tart to set in the fridge until solid - it will take at least 3 hours!
For the Decoration
- Whip together your double cream, Baileys and icing sugar until pipeable - pipe with your favourite piping tip onto the tart case.
- Decorate by grating some chocolate over the top, and enjoy!
Notes
- I recommend using this tart tin for best results!
- As mentioned in the post, I used original Baileys but any will work!
- I really do recommend using half milk/dark for the tart for the best results.
- You can use all dark, but if you want to use all milk chocolate you need to use 100ml baileys, and 200ml double cream.
- The cocoa powder in the base is optional!
- This will last for 3 days once made!
- I use this piping tip for the decoration
ENJOY!
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I have just made this and it is amazing. So easy too. The hardest bit for me is getting the biscuit base perfect by pushing it into the fluted parts of the tart tray. Actually that’s not totally true as my piping skills also need a lot of refinement ! Am looking forward to exploring your other recipes now.
hi Jane, I am making this tomorrow and was wondering if the piped cream on top lasts in the fridge or is it best to only add it when serving if the whole tart isn’t going to be ate in one go?
Hiya! So sorry I have only just seen this. Yes it does last x
Looks amazing. How boozy is it? If It’s subtle and I wanted to make it a bit stronger how much could I increase the alcohol by so that it still sets? Thanks!
I wouldn’t recommend using any more baileys – its pretty much at its limit, but I think it tastes quite strong as it is!
Hi there! This recipe looks delicious 🙂 Quick question, are the digestives plain, or chocolate flavored? Thanks!
Plain!
Looks incredible!! Just wondering could
I use this recipe to make miniature ones or would it not work?
Thank you ☺️
Yes it would work, how many you get etc just depends on the moulds you use!
Hi Jane!
I’m on a caffeine and alcohol free diet due to illness recovery :’( but we have one of these tarts in the fridge and I’m wondering if we could freeze some of it so I can try it at a later date? It looks so good ahh! Thank you x
Yes you can freeze it!! x
Hi
Ive just made this on the 22nd and would like it on Christmas day. I thought I saw freezing instructions but ccant see them?! How do I freeze please?
Hiya! Freeze it on a tray first and then freeze it covered. Hope this helps! x
Delicious and so easy to make. I took it into work so we had very pleased police in my hometown last night!
Made this for Christmas Day after dinner. Fabulous! I used one bar of 70% and one bar of 85% dark chocolate as we quite like dark chocolate and rich flavours and the rest of the milk chocolate was 60%. The filling set perfectly and everyone loved it! Ill definitely make this again! Served it with fresh cream and ice cream which did help the richness for those who found it a bit much. Dont need to serve a big slice, this would easily serve 12, if not more, this is quality over quantity!
Incredible! I made for Christmas Day and my husband said it was the best thing he ate all day. I’ll be making it again.
Hi. Can I use a springform (The one that has the release on the side of the tin) tin for this recipe?
You can, you would just need to build the biscuit up the sides of the tin x
Would it work using orange juice & rind instead of baileys to make it orange flavoured? Thank you xx
Hiya! Take a look at my chocolate orange tart. Hope this helps! x
This is looking amazing for a Christmas pudding! I’m looking to make this the day before Christmas and leave in the fridge overnight. Will the cream topping survive a day in the fridge or do you recommend decorating on the day? x
Yeah that would be fine in the fridge over night! x
Hi Jane. I made the biscoff version of this & omg it was amazing. I too plan on doing this for Christmas but wondered if you could do it with white chocolate as I have a white chocolate baileys 😋😋. What would be the quantities please? X
I am not 100% sure if it will set as I haven’t tried it, but I imagine you will need 600g of white chocolate, 100ml double cream and 100ml of the baileys! x
Made this yesterday and omg so good!! 10/10 would recommend, definite hit with my family 🙂
Love this recipe! Tried it for the first time last week and will be making it again for Christmas day. Everyone loved it. Thank you Jane!
Hi Jane
This is an amazing recipe but mine also didn’t set. Followed the instructions to the letter (which is a first for me) that cream topping 😍😍. The fact it was more of a splodge did not detract from the taste. Any ideas what I could have done wrong? I used Bourneville dark chocolate and Cadbury’s milk chocolate.
It’s the chocolate you have used – the cocoa content of the dark chocolate isn’t very dark at all! It’s actually more similar to milk chocolate (only about 36%, whereas you want to use dark that is at least 70% when baking) x
Update,
Left it overnight and although soft it is much more stable 👍
This looks great! Can this recipe be made with just milk chocolate instead of adding dark chocolate?
Thanks x
Theres notes about using milk chocolate – it’s not a straight switch x