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.
Recipes and styling by Wakeford Photographs by Karl Rogers
This cake will win the heart of any little princess! Chocolate cake with shortbread lollipops and fresh strawberries is the perfect dessert for the colour-loving chocoholic in your life.
Print Recipe Free-form chocolate chilli truffles Serves: 8 Cooking Time: 30 mins plus extra for setting Ingredients 500g 70 percent dark chocolate, chopped 60ml (¼ cup) fresh cream 1 red chilli, seeded and finely chopped 50g butter cocoa powder, for dusting Instructions 1 Line a 20cm x 40cm tin with baking paper. 2 Place the
Unusually delicious; you can experiment with lots of different sweet toppings. TO DRINK: Morgenhof Cape Late Bottled Vintage 2001, a young ruby port COOK’S TIPS Experiment with alternative sweet toppings such as: • Gorgonzola, toasted pecan nuts and honey. • Strawberry halves, good quality melted dark chocolate and mint. • Poached pears, oranges, mascarpone and walnuts.
The secret to this carrot, walnut and olive oil cake with white chocolate glaze is all in the olive oil, which creates a delicious moistness. This cake is the perfect combination, thanks to sweet carrots, earthy walnuts, and creamy glaze.
Print Recipe Chocolate sauce Ingredients 280g Belgian milk chocolate, chopped into small pieces 310ml milk 165ml (cup) fresh cream Instructions 1 Bring the milk and cream to the boil then pour over the chocolate. Wait for 30 seconds then mix, starting fromthe centre. 2 To assemble, place an ice-cream scoop of parfait in the middle
This chocolate ganache and butterscotch crepe cake with peaches, plums and granadilla pulp is a fun dessert that’s sure to impress even your toughest critics.
These chocolate brownies are deliciously gooey and the perfect treat for when something sweet will do just fine! Whip up a batch and indulge! Also, try your hand at baking these easy chocolate nut brownies. Keen on baking something different? Try this recipe: Gooey bacon and marshmallow-studded chocolate brownies
Cheat’s dark chocolate and pistachio lollies are perfect for the lazy cook. Making your own ice cream from scratch is great but not everybody has the time… A tub of good quality, store-bought ice cream is all you need. These deliciously decadent lollies are perfect for a hot day.
We decided on a combination of white chocolate and pistachio truffles with dark chocolate and coconut truffles – very rich and yummy.