Chocolate Tart with Pastry Cream and Strawberries

A gorgeous looking dessert that combines a buttery, melt in your mouth, chocolate pate sucrée, a luxurious vanilla bean pastry cream and fresh sweet strawberries.

Chocolate Pate Sucrée:
245 g (1 1/2 cups) flour 00, or all-purpose flour
100 g (3/4 cup + 1 Tbsp) icing sugar
18 g (3 Tbsp) unsweetened cocoa powder
2 g (1/4 tsp) salt
175 g (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 large egg, organic, free range
1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract

Vanilla Bean Pastry Cream:
4 egg yolks, organic, free-range
140 g granulated sugar
45 g corn starch, sifted
500 ml half and half cream (or part milk, part cream)
1 vanilla bean

Strawberries:
1 cup strawberries
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice (or fruit juice of your choice)

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