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Celebrate World Chocolate Day with 40 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.

40 recipes
Big choc chip cookie.
EASY

Big choc chip cookie

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Everyday chocolate cake with whipped cocoa cream.
EASY

Creator of the ‘world’s best chocolate cake’ shares new, improved kid-friendly recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
The world's best chocolate cake?

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

  • Yotam Ottolenghi
Chocolate and vanilla mousse.
EASY

Chocolate and vanilla mousse

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Gateau au chocolate.

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

  • 2 hrs +
  • Nagi Maehashi
Emelia Jackson’s Flourless chocolate souffle cake.

Flourless chocolate souffle cake

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

Soft-centred chocolate puddings

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
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 puddings with Lotus Biscoff biscuits and spread.
EASY

One-pot Biscoff chocolate puddings

  • 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 crater cake.

Chocolate crater cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Hot chocolate fondant.

Hot chocolate fondant

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

Chocolate loaf cake with mascarpone icing and jam

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Just a handful of ingredients and a few hours in the fridge.

No-bake crunchy chocolate-almond tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Alison Roman
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
A delightful dessert.
EASY

Chocolate, raspberry and Turkish delight self-saucing pudding

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Jill Dupleix's two-tone chocolate swirl cheesecake.

Two-tone chocolate swirl cheesecake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
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
Helen Goh's flourless chocolate orange and anise puddings.

Flourless chocolate and orange puddings

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
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
Chocolate layer cake with pecan and coconut icing.
EASY

American ‘German’ chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Katrina Meynink's Caramilk self-saucing pudding.

Caramilk self-saucing chocolate pudding

  • Katrina Meynink
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Hazelnut praline and Frangelico truffles.

Hazelnut Frangelico chocolate truffles

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
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
Baked chocolate custard with pecan brittle.

Baked chocolate custard with pecan brittle

  • Helen Goh
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
Note: Children preferred the bars without the ganache, as pictured, and also sans cinnamon.
EASY

Crunchy chocolate hazelnut marshmallow slice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Mexican chocolate pancakes.
EASY

Mexican spiced-chocolate pancakes with Nutella

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Giant triple chocolate cookie drizzled with hot fudge sauce.

Chocolate oblivion frypan cookie with peppermint hot fudge sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
White rocky road with crushed honeycomb and toasted macadamias.

Caramelised white chocolate, honeycomb and toasted macadamia rocky road

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Rachel Khoo's chocolate brownie pots with raspberry compote.

Chocolate brownie pots with raspberry compote

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rachel Khoo
Brown butter, macadamia and white chocolate blondies.
EASY

This golden ‘blondie’ slab is like a giant white chocolate and macadamia cookie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
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