Whether you are simply craving chocolate, or looking for an elegant, but easy dessert for your dinner party, you cannot go wrong with this chocolate mousse!
Recipes by Vickie de Beer Caramel Sauce: Ingredients: 200g (1 cup) sugar 60ml (¼ cup) water 50g butter, diced 80ml fresh thick cream sea salt flakes (if you want to make is salted caramel) Method: Place the sugar and water in a saucepan over low heat and heat until the sugar has melted, brushing the sides down frequently with a wet brush. Increase the heat and boil until the sugar becomes an amber colour. Remove from heat and beat in the butter and cream. Add a pinch of sea salt flakes. Set aside to cool. Chocolate sauce: Ingredients: 100g dark…
Print Recipe Vegan chocolate cake Serves: 8 Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients 420g (3 cups) self-raising flour 400g (2 cups) sugar 30g cocoa 10ml (2 tsp) baking powder 5ml (1 tsp) salt 180ml (¾ cup) vegetable oil 30ml (2 tbsp) vinegar 10ml (2 tsp) vanilla essence 500ml (2 cups) cold water icing sugar, to dust
If you think that standard chocolate cake needs some jazzing up, it’s time to turn to plum and ginger chocolate cake. These delicious flavours are perfect with rich, sweet chocolate. Recipe by Debbie Powell
Being bad never tasted so good. Eschew your diet and sink your teeth into this decadent, lustful, silky smooth chocolate torte with ganache and cherries… Recipe by Toni Scorgie and Nadine Waner of The Tart Photographs by Graeme Borchers The Tart Boutique Catering & Individually Crafted Cakes, 48 Jan Smuts Avenue, Forest Town, Johannesburg. Call 011-646-4781 or email [email protected].
Print Recipe Dark chocolate and strawberry puffs Serves: 15 puffs Cooking Time: 30 mins Ingredients PUFFS 30ml (2 tbsp) butter 45ml (3 tbsp) water 100ml milk 100g cake flour 4 large eggs FILLING 200g dark chocolate, melted 200g strawberries, finely chopped Instructions 1 Preheat the oven to 180°C. 2 For the puffs, heat the butter,
Recipe by Puleng Moshoaliba This recipe has 4 separate components and is a little challenging, but the end result is well worth the effort Salted caramel 180ml (¾ cup) thick cream 60g (4 tbsp) salted butter 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract 2,5ml (½ tsp) sea salt flakes 200g (1 cup) white sugar 160g corn syrup or pale golden syrup METHOD Heat half of the cream, half of the butter and the vanilla extract in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Set aside, cover and keep warm. Place the salt, sugar and the corn syrup or…
For all the chocoholics! This rich tart would go well with crème fraîche.
If decadence was baked into a cake, the result would be coffee, dark chocolate and hazelnut meringue layer cake. Each gorgeous, decadent slice will have you wanting more and more. Recipe by Cassandra Bruce-Brand Photographs by Graeme Borchers
1. Chocolate tart 2. Chocolate tart with a duo of salted caramel and Italian meringue quenelles
Cocoa was one of the discoveries Columbus made while searching the spice routes in the East. Tartlet of braised oxtail with pears and bitter chocolate certainly does his discovery justice. This is an elegant dish of smooth chocolate combined with dark beer and tender meat.
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Print Recipe Chocolate panforte di siena Serves: 2 Cooking Time: 30 mins Ingredients 100g butter 330g honey 350g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped 175g cake flour 5g mixed spice 50g cocoa powder 250g dried apricots, chopped 200g dried figs, chopped 300g flaked almonds 100g pistachio nuts 100g icing sugar, for dusting Instructions 1 Preheat the oven
Nothing beats ice cream in summer, specially when combined with two of my favourite things – chocolate and berries. You can use any berries in season.