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Helen Goh’s “Everyday chocolate cake” with whipped cocoa cream.

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Celebrate World Chocolate Day with 50 of Good Food’s greatest and gooiest recipes

Go loco for cocoa with these classic choc-loaded treats featuring milk, dark, white or all of the above.

50 recipes
Chocolate caramel tart.

Emelia Jackson’s chocolate caramel tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Emelia Jackson
Chocolate and vanilla mousse.
EASY

Chocolate and vanilla mousse

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Everyday chocolate cake with whipped cocoa cream.
EASY

Helen Goh’s ‘everyday chocolate cake’ with whipped cocoa cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
The perfect Swiss roll.

Emelia Jackson’s chocolate Swiss roll

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
The world's best chocolate cake?

And the OG ‘world’s best chocolate cake’ recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi’s ‘Sweet’

  • Yotam Ottolenghi
Dutch-process cocoa powder gives this cake and its icing a rich colour.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s classic chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Emelia Jackson’s Chocolate and malt self-saucing pudding.
EASY

Soft-centred chocolate puddings

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Big choc chip cookie.
EASY

Big choc chip cookie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Emelia Jackson’s Flourless chocolate souffle cake.

Flourless chocolate souffle cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Perfect on its own or served with greek yoghurt or ice-cream.
EASY

Chocolate, zucchini and hazelnut loaf

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Emelia Jackson’s chocolate mousse.

Emelia Jackson’s light, airy chocolate mousse

  • < 30 mins
  • Emelia Jackson
Gateau au chocolate.

RecipeTin Eats’ gateau au chocolat (aka fancy brownie dessert)

  • 2 hrs +
  • RecipeTin Eats
Emelia Jackson’s perfect black forest cake.

Black forest cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
With its filling of kataifi pastry and pistachios, the Dubai chocolate bar became a worldwide hit.
EASY

Dubai chocolate bar with Turkish delight Easter eggs

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Chocolate puddings with Lotus Biscoff biscuits and spread.
EASY

One-pot Biscoff chocolate puddings

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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Dark chocolate, blackberry and vanilla tart.

Dark chocolate ganache and blackberry tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Peanutty brownies with a hidden caramel centre.

Dark chocolate, peanut butter and dulce de leche brownies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Chocolate loaf with vanilla cream.
EASY

Chocolate loaf with vanilla cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh's flourless chocolate orange and anise puddings.

Flourless chocolate and orange puddings

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Neil Perry's almond and chocolate cake (with a dash of rum).

Almond and chocolate cake with rum syrup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Helen Goh’s flourless chocolate crater cake.

Chocolate crater cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Just a handful of ingredients and a few hours in the fridge.

No-bake crunchy chocolate-almond tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Alison Roman
Danielle Alvarez’s chocolate loaf cake with mascarpone icing.
EASY

Chocolate loaf cake with mascarpone icing and jam

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Hot chocolate fondant.

Hot chocolate fondant

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Frank Camorra
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Baked chocolate custard with pecan brittle.

Baked chocolate custard with pecan brittle

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
A delightful dessert.
EASY

Chocolate, raspberry and Turkish delight self-saucing pudding

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
These cream puffs swap pastry cream for a white-chocolate filling.

Double chocolate cream puffs filled with white chocolate cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
These gooey-centred brownies just so happen to be gluten-free.
EASY

Gluten-free chocolate, buckwheat and sea salt brownies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Hazelnut praline and Frangelico truffles.

Hazelnut Frangelico chocolate truffles

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Katrina Meynink's Caramilk self-saucing pudding.

Caramilk self-saucing chocolate pudding

  • Katrina Meynink
Chocolate layer cake with pecan and coconut icing.
EASY

American ‘German’ chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Twice as nice: Hedgehog with double caramel, double biscuit and double chocolate.
EASY

Double chocolate caramel hedgehog slice

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Helen Goh's simplified take on the Hungarian chocolate cake.

Rigo Jancsi cake (flourless chocolate mousse cake)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
These salty-sweet cookies will satisfy your cravings.

Danielle Alvarez’s salted peanut butter and dark chocolate cookies

  • Danielle Alvarez
Hot chocolate in pudding form.
EASY

Hot chocolate self-saucing pudding with toasted marshmallows

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Dive into this chocolate and nougat truffle bowl.
EASY

One bowl chocolate and nougat truffle

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink