"A chocolate, shortbread crust is filled with a hot cocoa custard and topped with marshmallow paw prints and bullet-pattern hearts. WARNING: Dog Marriage!"
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
1/2 cup hot cocoa powder mix
(Marshmallow decorations):
1 bag of mini marshmallows
Small heart-shaped cookie cutter
Add the flour, confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder and salt to a small bowl and whisk together.
Add the vanilla extract to the melted butter and stir, then pour into the dry ingredients. Mix until thoroughly moist and a dough forms that holds its shape.
Press the resulting dough evenly along the bottom and sides into a 9-inch tart.
Place the tart pan on a baking sheet and bake until the crust looks dry and matte instead of wet, 18 to 20 minutes.Let cool before filling.
To make the filling, add egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, and salt to a mixing bowl and whisk for 5 minutes until the mixture is pale yellow and thick.In a small saucepan, add milk, hot cocoa mix, and vanilla. Whisk over medium heat until the milk has scalded.
Take ½ cup of the hot milk mixture and whisk it into the egg yolk mixture. This will temper the eggs so they do not curdle. Once it is well combined, add the mixture back into the saucepan with the milk. Heat this on medium-high heat while whisking continuously (make sure to scrape the sides!) until well thickened.
Once the custard thickens, pour the custard through a sieve into a bowl heat-safe bowl. This will give you a nice smooth cream. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of the cream to prevent a skin. Refrigerate until cool.
When both the custard and the crust have cooled, remove the plastic wrap from your bowl/custard and whisk to loosen, then pour into your crust. Use a rubber spatula to smooth it down.
Cut large marshmallows into disks. Arrange four (4) of the large marshmallow disks in a zig-zag line vertically on your custard, leaving room between the top and bottom disks and the edge of the crust.
Use mini marshmallows to complete paw-print patterns around the large marshmallow disks; four (4) mini marshmallows arranged in a curve over each disk should do the trick (see image below for visual aid).
Cut more large marshmallow disks by cutting the large marshmallows in half. Use the small, heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut marshmallow hearts out of the disks. Arrange in a circle around the paw prints, sticky side down and on the custard.
Add the drop of blue food colour to the tbsp of water. Use a small, clean paintbrush to brush every other marshmallow heart with blue food colour to resemble Dogamy and Dogaressa's heart attack (visual aid below).
"Love Tart" - Heals MAX HP. "Take my wife...'s fleas. (Don't actually.)"
*please note that the cupcakes shown above are not mine! This picture just perfectly matches my vision for the paw print marshmallow pattern on the tart. Thanks!