Recipe by Jaques Erusmus
Chocolate puddings never went out of fashion. TO DRINK: Complement the fruit flavours but break the sweetness – go for 2005 Bellingham Merlot with a dash of Malbec.
White chocolate and peanut butter biscotti are elegant Italian biscuits full of flavours that are adored worldwide. Creamy white chocolate and peanut butter are the perfect fillers for these lighter-than-air biscuits. Perfect for anytime of the day!
Chocolate chunk cookies are every chocoholic’s dream. Deliciously gooey and rich, they’re simply dreamy. Go back to childhood and enjoy these treats with a glass of milk.
It’s the time of year once more for hot cross buns! Although they’re a universal favourite, perhaps you’re getting bored of plain old buns with butter. If you are, it’s time to make hot cross bread and butter chocolate puddings. Turn leftover hot cross buns or even a few slices of our hot cross bun loaf into this scrummy pudding.
How could you possibly go wrong with fruit, chocolate, and meringue? Pineapple, dark chocolate and granadilla Pavlova is a divine dessert that has every flavour you could want. Sweet, rich, with just enough fruity tartness. Don’t worry if your meringue cracks – it happens. Simply use the filling to disguise any major cracks.
A puff pastry, chocolate and fig stack is the perfect way to get your fix: creamy, chocolaty goodness atop golden pastry, with some fruity delight for good measure. This is a quick and super-impressive dessert that will keep chocolate lovers happy! If you loved this puff pastry, chocolate and fig stack, then you will definitely enjoy these recipes (take our word for it): Mini chocolate sponges with coffee meringue icing (because you can never go wrong with chocolate and coffee) Peppermint Crisp ice-cream cake (you can never go wrong with Peppermint Crisp) Chocolate lava cup (what all of your chocolate…
Chocolate and almond is the perfect combination, and therefore this double chocolate and almond tart is the perfect dessert.
Decadent and a real treat that is sure to wow dinner guests
This chocolate tart with Amarula is the perfect tea time treat!
Recipes and styling by Sarah Dall Photographs by Christoph Heierli
This is a fantastic recipe: when served cold it is the most intense chocolate mousse in the world; bake it and it will rise and fall almost immediately when taken out of the oven. COOK’S TIPS • Pop a vanilla pod into the prune compote pan at the start. Remove at the end of the cooking and cooling process, rinse, dry and store in a jar with castor sugar or slide open after cooking and remove all the seeds and pop those back into the prune pan, discarding the pod. • The chocolate and butter can be melted in the…
For serious chocolate lovers!
Print Recipe Chocolate blondie slices Serves: 1 cake Cooking Time: 1 hour Ingredients 80g butter 150g white chocolate 170g castor sugar 2 eggs 120g cake flour 60g self-raising flour 100g macadamias, toasted and chopped 150g raspberries Instructions 1 Preheat the oven to 150°C. 2 Melt the butter and chocolate and leave to cool a little.
Make sure that you choose pears that are ripe but firm. Chocolate and almond filled pears with mascarpone custard are an absolutely divine combination of flavours. Pears are a naturally delicate fruit, perfect with some richer, creamier flavours.