Posts about chocolate

Black Forest Double Chocolate Brownie Cake
2022-06-05 13:18

This recipe takes my Double chocolate raspberry brownie recipe up a level.

It consists of two raspberry brownie layers sandwiched around a dark cherry buttercream layer.

As with the original recipe, rather than white chocolate chunks you can also use a knife to turn a Milkybar bar into flakes.

Because the presentation is that of a cake, you don't necessarily need to use square tins for this, the only requirement is that both tins be the same size shape (if you've only got one tin, you can make one layer at a time, but it'll take longer).

Can be served on it's own, or with cream

Chocolate Torte
2021-07-07 13:39

Chocolate Torte can be very rich and heavy, but it can also be incredibly flexible.

This recipe gives the basis of a good (and heavy) torte, which can easily be modified - whether by adding rum/whisky to the mix, or by putting a layer of fruit (black cherry or raspberries are both winners) in the middle

Serve with double cream or ice-cream

Chocolate Chunk Cookies
2020-11-29 09:01

The pictured cookies are - at a stretch - in fact Christmas Chocolate Chunk Cookies as I used Cadbury Dairy Milk Winter Wonderland Edition to make them and popped one of the trees from it into the top of each cookie. Had I intended to make Xmas cookies then I should proabably have added cinnamon as well as the vanilla.

Chocolate chip cookies are all well and good, but you only get tiny chocolate hits - far better (IMO) to have big chunks of melted chocolate merging with the dough. I've used Cadbury's Dairy Milk as it's the chocolate of choice in our house, but this recipe should work with most chocolates, milk, dark or white.

It's a quick and easy recipe, and (depending on your oven) you may well have completed the initial steps slightly before your oven comes up to temperature

If you want to treat them as more of a dessert, do the prep before your meal - put in the oven just after the main, and then 10-15 mins later serve them hot with custard, cream or ice-cream

Chocolate Concrete and Pink Cement
2020-07-23 18:17

Also known as chocolate crunch and pink custard, this was a favourite dessert/afters when I was at school. It's quick and easy to make, and tastes awesome

Lazy Mocha
2020-07-14 09:35

Chocolatey and creamy. Using milk chocolate works better for kids, as dark chocolate's a bit bitter for them (plus, do you really want to give them coffee? really?)

Double Chocolate Raspberry Brownies
2019-07-07 14:01

These came about because we decided to make brownies, but I couldn't be arsed to deal with melting chocolate so wanted to make them with Cocoa only. Was a little bit worried that it'd result in a loss of volume though, so wanted to add something to bulk it back out.

My cake pan is actually too large for this recipe, and my mixing bowl too small to make more in one go. So, rather than buying and storing yet more kit, the approach we tend to take is to make one set of the mix, measure out new ingredients and then make another set. This means you can do layered stuff like (in the pic) having a darker layer with just raspberries in it beneath a lighter layer with raspberry and white chocolate

The volume loss of not having the chocolate isn't actually that great though (the coca increase offsets it quite well), so you can just as easily leave out the raspberries and white chocolate if you prefer straight brownies.

Chocolate Fondant
2019-05-22 12:09

Soft cakey outside, with gooey chocolate in the middle

The temperature of your oven will affect how firmness or softness these puddings come out. If the first pudding turned out of it's tin is too soft, then cook the remaining puddings for another couple of minutes.