Asda Coconut and Chocolate Tart

...all the running I do my trousers fit me again!

As mentioned earlier, they can be tracked down in ASDA and they cost £1.78

Thanks for reading this, and I hope you manage to find one!!

Larry

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I’m not really a pudding type of person, but I am rather partial to things coconut!! I saw this tart in my local ASDA, well I just had to try it (purely for research you understand!!). and it said NEW!

** What is it? **

A tart!! Not just any tart though, it’s a sweet pastry base, covered in chocolate spread, then given a deep filling of coconut, and then gently cooked.

** What’s the box like? **

Picking up the box, it weighs a ton!! The whole thing is seriously heavy. Interestingly enough there is no actually weight on the box!!, but for £1.78 it seems pretty good value. There is a serving suggestion, of a piece of the tart with some ice cream, I would say that would be an ideal pudding! The slice of tart shown on the front of the box is identical to the contents, so there has been no tarting up of images (sorry about that!)

** What’s inside the box? **

It is about 9 inches across. It comes in a silver foil dish, and is sealed in clear plastic.

The pastry is scalloped around the edges, and sits up about one inch. You do notice that the pastry is not too thick, and not too thin.

When you open the box, you get the sweet smell of coconut. I didn’t find it overpowering as you can get in some coconut products. You really don’t notice any chocolate, only the thin lines dripped onto the surface. There was no chocolate smell either.

The top is covered in flakes of coconut, some dark brown, some light brown, which I guess has been caused through the cooking process, there are also lighter colours where they haven’t caught as much.

There are also lines of chocolate dripped on the top in a zig zag pattern (is there a technical culinary term for this?)

For looks you couldn’t get anything better, I found this to be really well presented.

Ingredients are quite a long list, but there is 21% desiccated coconut, 12% sweetened condensed milk, along with various sweeteners, and flavourings

It says that the chocolate filling is 17% and the coconut filling is 54%
There are no artificial colours.

It does contain Gluten, milk, eggs, wheat and soya, there may also be traces of nuts and seeds

Nutritionally, they give the values per 1/6th of a tart, so 1/6 is 18g of fat, 321 calories and approx 0.5g of salt. Now I’m sure that I never scientifically cut these things up into exact 6ths!

** What’s it like? **

When you open the plastic, you get this sweet smell of coconut. The whole thing looked good enough to just pick up and eat right away, but no I had to really share this with the office :-(

Cut a slice and take it out of the dish, and you can see the golden brown layer of coconut, then the white of the coconut underneath then a thickish layer of chocolate, then the pastry base. It certainly looked really appealing.

I found the tart to cut really easily, I also found it quite easy to extract the cut piece from the dish – I’ve had things like this where you try to take it out and you end up getting covered! So the pastry is not too brittle, the coconut is well bound – what more can you say!

I found the coconut to be really moist, and very sweet!! It is the sort of tart that you can only really have one portion of at a go (I tried and failed on a second!)

I ate some, and thought I couldn’t really taste the chocolate, but then it hit me, the chocolate seemed to be much stronger than I was expecting, very much like strong milk chocolate – the sort you get in Thorntons!

The coconut was really moist, (not dry and excessively chewy). The chocolate complimented the coconut really well, and certainly made this tart, I think without the chocolate it would have been a reasonable bland coconut tart!

The pasty just seemed to melt in your mouth. I couldn’t really say what it tasted like, as any taste was masked by the coconut and chocolate.

I cut it into reasonable slices, and it happily fed the eight of us in my office! – OK nine, I had two pieces (eventually). I think if you actually went for the 6ths they recommend it would be slightly too much.

I can thoroughly recommend this tart. It has real quality to it, it tastes great, and after all the running I do my trousers fit me again!

As mentioned earlier, they can be tracked down in ASDA and they cost £1.78

Thanks for reading this, and I hope you manage to find one!!

Larry

 

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