Chocolate recipes

If you need to melt chocolate, watch how it's done in our Cookery School video. Once you've mastered the art of melting chocolate you are opening yourself up to a world of wonderful chocolate recipes.

From chocolate bread-and-butter-pudding to profiteroles and Sachertorte. Who can resist?

A picture of Delia's A Return to the Black Forest recipe

Return to the Black Forest Flourless

Though much debased by many frozen versions, the original Black Forest gateau, way back in the Sixties, was...

Though much debased by many frozen versions, the original Black Forest gateau, way back in the Sixties, was a delight: a soft, light concoction made with seriously dar...

A Very Chocolatey Mousse

This was the chocolate recipe of the 1960s, but it has now, sadly, been eclipsed by other eras and their eq...

This was the chocolate recipe of the 1960s, but it has now, sadly, been eclipsed by other eras and their equally fashionable recipes. So time for a revival, I think...

Amaretti Chocolate Cake

Italian Amaretti biscuits are now widely available in supermarkets, as well as delicatessen, and their stro...

Italian Amaretti biscuits are now widely available in supermarkets, as well as delicatessen, and their strong almond flavour is the perfect match with some strong, ver...

Buche de Noel (Chocolate Chestnut Log)

This famous French confection turns up in a number of guises, some of which I have a great aversion to, hav...

This famous French confection turns up in a number of guises, some of which I have a great aversion to, having never liked the sickly sweet butter cream that's often u...

Chocolate Rum Gateau

This recipe, originally invented for Comic Relief is the busy person's chocolate dessert, which is made in ...

This recipe, originally invented for Comic Relief is the busy person's chocolate dessert, which is made in an instant but tastes like you slaved all day. It freezes...

Cheats' Chocolate Trifle

This one’s either for people who don’t like to cook or for devoted cooks who nonetheless need something rea...

This one’s either for people who don’t like to cook or for devoted cooks who nonetheless need something really speedy. First, you need to zip round the supermarket ...

Chocolate 'Surprise' Cup Cakes

It’s the hidden ingredient that’s the surprise. Mashed potato, often used in potato scones but even bett...

It’s the hidden ingredient that’s the surprise. Mashed potato, often used in potato scones but even better in these small cakes – giving them a soft moist texture. ...

15 minutes

to cook

A picture of Delia's Chocolate Almond Crunchies recipe

Chocolate Crunchies

Although you can now buy really good-quality biscuits and American cookies, making them at home still has t...

Although you can now buy really good-quality biscuits and American cookies, making them at home still has the edge, and as biscuits are so easy, it's a very good place...

15 minutes

to cook

Chocolate Beer Cake

The beer – dark stout (Guinness, Murphy’s or similar) – gives this cake an extra dimension, and the icing i...

The beer – dark stout (Guinness, Murphy’s or similar) – gives this cake an extra dimension, and the icing is so good it can be used on other chocolate cakes.

30 minutes - 35 minutes

to cook

Chocolate Blancmange

I have had a long association with chocolate blancmange: I've always wanted it desperately, but never been ...

I have had a long association with chocolate blancmange: I've always wanted it desperately, but never been able to make it successfully. I've been down the cornflou...

Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding

I have to thank Larkin Warren, a wonderful American chef, for her original recipe, which I have adapted. ...

I have to thank Larkin Warren, a wonderful American chef, for her original recipe, which I have adapted. It is quite simply one of the most brilliant hot puddings e...

30 minutes - 35 minutes

to cook

Chocolate Chip Ginger Nuts

I don't know who invented the expression 'that takes the biscuit', but home-made ginger nuts are, I think, ...

I don't know who invented the expression 'that takes the biscuit', but home-made ginger nuts are, I think, precisely what that expression is trying to convey. Then ...

15 minutes - 20 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Chocolate Choux Buns

These lovely, light, airy choux buns are filled and topped with a squidgy chocolate mousse mixture and coat...

These lovely, light, airy choux buns are filled and topped with a squidgy chocolate mousse mixture and coated with chocolate icing and chopped nuts.

22 minutes - 28 minutes

to cook

Chocolate Creme Brulee

What chocolate mousse had been to the 1960s, creme brulee was to the 1990s, suddenly appearing on almost ev...

What chocolate mousse had been to the 1960s, creme brulee was to the 1990s, suddenly appearing on almost every restaurant menu. It's truly a great British classic t...

Chocolate Drop Mini Muffins with Red Noses

Tiny little chocolate bites - soft, light, with melted chocolate swirled on the top, on which to fix a whol...

Tiny little chocolate bites - soft, light, with melted chocolate swirled on the top, on which to fix a whole cherry. Once you've mastered the very easy art of makin...

10 minutes

to cook

A picture of Delia's Chocolate Fruit and Nut Refrigerator Cake recipe

Fruit and Nut Refrigerator Cake Flourless

This is obviously perfect for children to make because there’s no cooking involved. But the grown-up ver...

This is obviously perfect for children to make because there’s no cooking involved. But the grown-up version could include other combinations of fruits and nuts (pr...

Chocolate Fudge Cake

This recipe was born in the Seventies, when there was a sudden surge of partiality for all things healthy a...

This recipe was born in the Seventies, when there was a sudden surge of partiality for all things healthy and 'whole'. The problem was, 'whole' sometimes meant heav...

30 minutes - 35 minutes

to cook

A picture of Delia's Chocolate Fudge with Roasted Nuts and Raisins recipe

Chocolate Fudge with Nuts and Raisins

This is another Canary Catering favourite, which we serve with coffee – it is widely appreciated and we alw...

This is another Canary Catering favourite, which we serve with coffee – it is widely appreciated and we always have lots of pleas for the recipe.

Chocolate Hazelnut Meringue Roulade

When we first put this on the menu at Delia's City Brasserie at the football club, it was one of the fastes...

When we first put this on the menu at Delia's City Brasserie at the football club, it was one of the fastest-selling desserts ever. Please don't worry about rolling...

Vegetarian

A picture of Delia's Chocolate Marbled Energy Bars recipe

Chocolate Marbled Bars

I made these on TV with Dawn French for Comic Relief. After that, school children were making them all o...

I made these on TV with Dawn French for Comic Relief. After that, school children were making them all over the country to raise money – and they were very popular....

25 minutes

to cook

Chocolate Mascarpone Cheesecake

This is quite simply a chocolate cheesecake to die for. If you like chocolate, if you like dark chocolat...

This is quite simply a chocolate cheesecake to die for. If you like chocolate, if you like dark chocolate with fruit and nuts, and if you like luscious, velvet-text...

Mocha Mousse

I think if you're going to make a mousse for yourself then you deserve to get plenty of flavour from it - a...

I think if you're going to make a mousse for yourself then you deserve to get plenty of flavour from it - and this one certainly offers that!

Chocolate Ricotta Cheesecake

This cheesecake is not intensely 'in-your-face' chocolatey, but more subtle. The texture and the slight ...

This cheesecake is not intensely 'in-your-face' chocolatey, but more subtle. The texture and the slight acidity in the ricotta gives this an unusual edge and this, ...

Chocolate Tartlets

We’ve sometimes made this in one large M&S tart case – the choice is yours. Either way, these are ve...

We’ve sometimes made this in one large M&S tart case – the choice is yours. Either way, these are very pretty, with a wonderfully glossy surface, but you could ...