Warning! Don’t read this if you’re on a diet or have high blood sugar!
I was given this recipe by a chef who was on tour with me earlier this year. He and his team had made this for dessert one day and it seemed like the sort of thing Chocabloggers would love, so I cadged [...]

I’ve been having a hard time finding new and interesting chocolatey Halloween ideas this year. My usual research methods weren’t turning up many ideas that we didn’t cover last year.

But then I just started adding “…cake” to lots of Halloween related Google searches and came up with this.

Of course I should have known that somebody [...]

Here’s an interesting little “recipe” for a “negative calorie” chocolate cake from Steamy Kitchen.

I use “recipe” in quotes because it involves a pre-packaged cake mix and “negative calorie” in quotes because I can’t help thinking her calorie counting technique has gone awry somehow. I think perhaps she may be in need of a chocolate calculator…

Still, [...]

This is an old family secret - the perfect fudge icing for both filling and topping a good chocolate cake. Enjoy!

You will need

5 oz of butter
5 oz of icing sugar, sifted
4 tablespoons of cocoa powder
3 tablespoons of milk

(If you’re a proper choccy monster use double - I tend to make half as much again.)

Method

Slowly and [...]

This week, the long-running children’s TV show Blue Peter made a Chocolate Dalek Cake, not unlike our own, and we thought you might like to see their version in full.

The Blue Peter cake is much smaller than the one we made back in August - and a little too refined if you ask me. If [...]