I wish I’d had this recipe decades ago! I had three small kids, and I had to take a lot of food to a lot of potlucks, meetings, classes, games, gatherings and parties 🙂 I also had to pull together a lot of nice dinners at home for meetings, holidays, and guests. I worked full time, and I was a single parent—time was not something I had in abundance. This recipe could have saved my arse a hundred times over! 

Not only is this an easy, quick recipe, it’s an awesome tasty recipe! This is. One. Fantastic. Chocolate Tart. 

I found this recipe on The Hungry Housewife—pic cred to her, too. She has even posted a video on how to make this, and how she reacted when she found ¼ of her tart had disappeared!

Chocolate Mocha Tart

INGREDIENTS

• 1 premade Chocolate Graham Cracker Pie Crust OR make your own, but right now you are in a hurry to get this made, so… 🙂
• 4 ounces of Philadelphia Cream Cheese at room temperature
• ¾ cup heavy cream, though regular whipping cream works, too
• ¼ cup sugar
• ¾ Tbsp instant espresso powder
• 1 Bag semi-sweet chocolate chips, like Ghirardelli or Guittard

DIRECTIONS

1. In a medium sauce pan over medium heat, melt cream cheese—this will be a bit tricky. Stir constantly.
2. Whisk in the heavy cream and sugar.
3. Add in the instant espresso powder and mix until combined. Bring mixture to just under a boil—bubbles will be forming around the edges—then remove from heat.
4. Place the chocolate chips in a medium bowl, and pour the hot cream mixture over them—let sit 5 minutes without stirring. After 5 minutes, whisk the chocolate until smooth.
5. Pour into your pie crust and place in the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight until set. Or, if you are really short for time, place pie in the freezer for 45 minutes.
6. Serve small slices plain, or with whipped cream—in a perfect world, I’d like to have some concentrated raspberry syrup on the plate, too, like they do in fancy restaurants 🙂

Tart can be made several days in advance.

Thank you for stopping by my kitchen today, now hurry, get this DONE!