Say hello to another Lord of the Rings dessert.
It’ll be easier, because unlike the last one, this one actually has recognizable eyes! 🙂
From the second movie of The Lord of the Rings trilogy- The Two Towers, here is my rendition of an Ent.
What is an Ent?
Very simply- a talking, walking, Middle-earth inhabiting tree.
Here’s an Ent from the movie.
Mine’s cuter, right?
The best part is this tart doesn’t taste like tree at all.
It’s quite yummy actually.
I’m assuming not all of you are going to drop everything you’re doing and run off to make a tart that looks like an old tree. So I’ll give you a brief version of the recipe. Just holler in the comments below if you want anything explained in more detail.
I made my basic pie crust.
Topped it with a coffee-cream filling.
Over that went a semi-solid ganache that I shaped into a generic tree bark.
I used brown icing for the eyes and used a fork for some texture over the ganache.
I also made chocolate leaves!
This is easier than you think.
I melted white chocolate and coloured it green. Then I washed some real leaves and coated the reverse side with the green melted chocolate.
After about an hour in the fridge, I simply peeled off the real leaf and was left with gorgeous, bright green, white chocolate leaves.
I think the chocolate leaves will look rather smashing on cupcakes. What do you think?
culinarystorm 
wow! i looove the leaves… such a great idea using real leaves to form themould… def trying this one out 🙂
lemme know how it turns out!
Your Ent is looking a bit scared of you – I think he knows you’re going to eat him. But that said, it’s awesome, love the chocolate leaves
haha 🙂 he was right to be scared-he was demolished 😉
The yummiest tree I’ve come across! You’re gifted!
Thank you 🙂
gorgeous ENT 😀
🙂
I was one of the lucky ones that ATE this ent and I must say it was absolutely DELICIOUS. Never thought I’d be saying that about an ent!
Haha 🙂
I was one of the lucky ones that ate this and I must say it was absolutely DELICIOUS!
Can I hate you? hunh? this is horrible of you. how could you do this to me? its afternoon, I am hungry, and I see coffee cream tart, ganache and white chocolate. I hate you. No, really. And I am getting up to get myself an ice cream soda because I deserve it after this traumatic experience.
Come and meet me. I will make for you 🙂 hugs!
Just knew you would want to get away with it somehow. 😀
Wow, this looks amazing!:-) Great job on the tree…erm, Ent, I mean 😛
Thanks Christy 🙂