Baked mocha and ricotta pudding with chocolate sauce
These cute, individual puddings are the ideal way to cap off a weeknight dinner.
Counting beans: The best bean-to-bar chocolate in Australia for a decadent Easter
Following in the footsteps of craft beer and specialty coffee, Australia’s bean-to-bar chocolate movement is beginning to thrive, explains LUKE OWEN SMITH. With it comes a vast new flavour landscape for chocolate connoisseurs to explore.
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44 of the best chocolate recipes for Easter
Easter and chocolate. It's just common sense.
The chocolate pudding recipes you need for winter
Just try saying no to these.
Chilli chocolate lava cake
Chocoholics delight, because this chocolate lava cake is all things spiced, gooey and delicious.
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Your seasonal guide to luxury Easter eggs, bunnies and hampers
All aboard the cacao express.
How to make a Yule log (bûche de Noël)
Roll up this fresh take on a traditional Yule log, with fresh raspberries and pistachios.
Belgian chocolatier GODIVA unveils debut luxury advent calendar for 2023
The taste of luxury is one that cannot be beat.
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38 indulgent coconut dessert recipes
Go nuts for these coconut desserts.
Chocolate Negroni cannoli
Double the batch.
30 heavenly chocolate cakes that take the cake
A rule of thumb: one slice is never enough.
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Lemon myrtle brown butter madeleines
This is a simple madeleine recipe worth committing to memory.
White Christmas with sour cherries, almonds and Grand Marnier
A grown-up version of the yuletide treat.
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Chocolate coconnetta parfait cake
Inspired by the nostalgic Viennetta ice-cream cake, this fun dessert is sure to delight at any party.
Mango, macadamia and spiced white chocolate pavlova wreath
Inspired by the flavours of Australian summer, this stunning pavlova wreath is the perfect festive centrepiece. Begin this recipe the day before.
Easy choc-chip peanut butter cookies
A no-fuss recipe with satisfying results.
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Chocolate and banana French toast with salted caramel
It's like a recipe for regular toast, with a little something extra.
9 must-bake brownies
Stopping at just one slice is the ultimate test of willpower.
Cassata
There's a good reason Sicily is known as the sweets centre of Italy, and cassata – decorative and delicious – is it.
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Choc-cross buns
This winning combination of Easter's big treats (chocolate and hot-cross buns) is going to be snapped up very quickly. In the unlikely event of leftovers, serve them toasted.
A pâtissière’s guide to making Black Forest cake
Chocolate and kirsch are the stars of this knockout classic German dessert gâteau, with a light, airy sponge the key to success. Catherine Adams shows how it's done.
How to make a chocolate mousse cake
Chocolate fiends will love the triple-hit in this irresistible chocolate mousse cake. Catherine Adams shows how it's done.
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Sixpenny’s chocolate-marsala mousse with vanilla ice-cream
One of the silkiest chocolate mousses you'll have the good fortune to come across.
Our best chocolate tarts
You'll fight over the last slice.
Baked chocolate creams with roasted strawberries
And a touch of ouzo too.
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Guillaume Brahimi’s salted caramel and chocolate ganache tart
It doesn't get much better than praise-worthy dessert.
Dark-chocolate liquorice rocky road
A sophisticated take on the classic chocolate creation.
Warm chocolate desserts for your winter dessert cravings
Cold weather, molten chocolate – it's a match made in heaven.
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Chocolate, tahini and pear pancakes
A sweet stack we'd happily have for brunch or dessert.
Chocolate-cornflake cookies with mocha ganache
Chocolate cookies, with a bit extra.
A pastry chef’s guide to making sfogliatelle
Alistair Wise of Hobart's Sweet Envy demystifies the making of these revered Italian pastries, his favourite Easter treat.
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Churros cake
Cinnamon sugar, dulce de leche, melted chocolate. It's the fried dough treats you know and love rendered in cake form.
How to make cannoli
The unique cannolo, with its crisp shell and creamy filling, is arguably Sicily's greatest gift to pasticcerie.
The best Valentine’s Day chocolates to buy
You say it best when you say it with chocolates.
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Jaclyn Koludrovic’s gluten-free and dairy-free raspberry, vanilla and chocolate lamingtons
A diet-inclusive take on the much-loved Australian treat.
Jaclyn Koludrovic’s gluten-free lemon verbena, white chocolate and fig tart
A contemporary trio of flavours in a dietary-friendly tart.
Lauren Eldridge’s Christmas fruit pudding frozen nougatine
A cool spin on the traditional yuletide pud.
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Lauren Eldridge’s white chocolate and pistachio profiterole wreath
For a Christmas dessert to remember.
A cheat’s recipe for choc-chip peanut butter cookies
These speedy cookies are a cinch to put together, thanks to the power of peanut butter. Here's the hack.
How to make a chocolate ganache tart
Master pastry chef Catherine Adams has a light yet luscious dessert just made to crown the dining table.
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Butterscotch snowball bombe
Where ice-cream, meringue and a brownie base combine into one grand flourish of a dessert.
Spiced orange Sacher torte
Chocolate and orange – it's a combination that just works.
Flour and Stone’s salted caramel chocolate éclairs
Sometimes nothing else will do.
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Flour and Stone’s Paris-Brest
The choux-pastry dessert that's dressed to impress.
Hazelnut custard slice
It's a vanilla slice, but with Nutella inside, and a coffee-chocolate icing on top.
This chocolate soufflé is what dreams are made of
It's simultaneously rich and feather-light.
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Chocolate cake with fudge icing
This simple recipe is everything you want a chocolate cake to be: rich, dense and generously iced.
Christina Tosi’s Compost Cookies
There's a bit of everything in these sweet treats.
Chocolate mousse with white chocolate and corn flake crumble
This recipe by Leonardo's Pizza Palace in Melbourne uses a classic technique that produces flawless mousses and parfaits.
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Sweet Envy’s caramel galactic bars (aka fancy Mars Bar slice)
The celebrated Hobart pastry shop have an sophisticated take on the classic chocolate-caramel slice.
Lamingtons
As far as all-time Australian classics go, these choc-coconut sponge squares take the cake.
Frozen bûche de Noël
This hazelnut-semifreddo version of the classic Yule log is here to save your Australian Christmas.
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Chocolate tart
A perfect specimen of a dessert.
Flour & Stone’s blackberry and chocolate meringue roulade
Chocolate meringue and blackberry compote coiled inside an impossibly light chocolate sponge. This is what dreams are made of.
JoyBird’s cheesecake semifreddo
Is it a cheesecake? Is it an ice-cream? Adelaide's JoyBird marries the two creamy desserts into one.
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What is sustainable chocolate?
Green & Black's founders talk sustainable practices, wine and chocolate pairings, and the future of the chocolate industry.
Behind the scenes at Haigh’s chocolate factory
From bean to basket, we take a tour of the factory that produces the much-loved chocolate, and see how their chocolate is made from bean to basket.
Sweet Envy’s chocolate and cranberry cookies
The secret ingredient? Malted milk powder.
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Agostino’s chocolate, clementine and aniseed zaletti
It's the traditional Venetian raisin and cornmeal biscuit, but made more heavenly with chocolate, clementine and aniseed.
How to make the perfect hot chocolate
We asked our favourite confectioners and café owners from around the country for their hottest tips.
Five of the best: Drinking chocolate
From pure cacao to cinnamon-spiced, these cocoas to mix up in a mug promise warmth and comfort in equal measure.
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Chocolate self-saucing pudding with miso and sesame crunch
The addition of red miso paste might sound odd in a dessert, but it adds a delicious, salty umami to this chocolate and sesame pudding.
A hot chocolate recipe that hits the spot, every time
Giselle Weybrecht has sought out the world's best hot chocolate at 450 venues in 55 countries. We consider her somewhat an authority on how to make the perfect base hot chocolate.
Chocolate, apricot and rum pound cake
It's not what you'd call a traditional pound cake. It calls for different quantities of flour, sugar, eggs and butter, but know this – it is delicious.
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Chocolate liégeois
Coffee granita, chocolate mousse and a cherry on top. This dessert is the whole package.
Churros with chocolate sauce
Everybody loves churros. Paired with a smooth chocolate sauce and they're near irresistible.
Ryan Gosling, the candy bar (aka an inverted Polly Waffle)
Marshmallow on the outside, chocolate filling on the inside. Unlike his cereal, Mr Gosling would gobble this up.
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How to make ganache
Alistair Wise, of Hobart’s Sweet Envy, steers us through one of the pastry kitchen’s most essential – and mesmerising – preparations.
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A look inside Enigma, Canberra’s latest chocolate shop
There are rainbow-freckle Easter eggs and a chocolate bar that mimics a Jackson Pollock painting.
Chocolate and hazelnut Kugelhopf
Hobart's Sweet Envy have crafted their own version of the Central European cake with a crunchy hazelnut filling and a drizzle of dark chocolate ganache.
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Choc-orange cake with Jaffa buttercream
Get the party started with this classic chocolate-orange cake, with a rich buttercream and crushed Jaffas.
Jaci Koludrovic’s rocky-road cake
This recipe has all the pleasures of a rocky-road – pillowy marshmallow, fudgy chocolate – in cake form.
Hazelnut and chocolate swirl nougat
This nutty nougat can be made a few days ahead, leaving you with one less thing to prepare on the day.
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Chocolate-hazelnut meringue cake
Dense and fudgy chocolate cake contrasts beautifully with feather-light chocolate meringue in this moreish cake.
Brae chef Dan Hunter branches out to chocolate
Can’t get to Brae? You can try one of the three-starred restaurant’s desserts in bite-sized form as part of a new range of Koko Black chocolates.
Bonet
Similar to crème caramel, this northern Italian dessert adds coffee, chocolate and amaretti to the mix. Sounds like a good move to us.
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Jaclyn Koludrovic’s roasted white chocolate and ricotta cannoli
The nutty taste of roasted white chocolate brings a whole new element to these sweet Italian pastries.
Kaya madeleines with chocolate sauce
Kaya paste adds an unusual coconut note to these pretty madeleines. Time to put the kettle on.
Yu-ching Lee’s chocolate, Earl Grey and honey-ganache brownie
Completely unlike any other brownie you've had.
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One woman’s quest for the perfect hot chocolate
Giselle Weybrecht has sought out the world’s best hot chocolate at 450 venues in 55 countries. This is her story.
Salted-caramel macadamia tart with chocolate ganache
Fans of peanut brittle should be on high alert: this tart will be impossible for you to resist.
Caramelised honey and popcorn bars with salted chocolate
What's better than popcorn? Popcorn with chocolate, of course.
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Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache
This is the chocolate cake to save for a special occasion.
Chocolate, coconut and date slab
Proof that dairy-free doesn't mean taste-free.
Chocolate-coconut pudding with passionfruit and ice-cream
No passionfruit? These easy chocolate puddings work just as well topped with fresh berries or a dollop of your favourite jam.
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Mini white chocolate bundts with bitter chocolate glaze
Think white chocolate isn't for you? When a bitter chocolate glaze is involved, its sweetness is kept in check. It could be time for a rethink.
Chocolate and buttermilk slab cake
Buttermilk is the bakers' secret weapon here, adding a subtle tang to the sweet frosting and contributing to an ultra-tender crumb in the cake itself. Try it for yourself and see.
Little brownie cakes with fudge sauce
In theory, you could share one of these rich chocolate cakes between two. But in reality? Well, that's a different matter.
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Stokehouse Q’s dark chocolate pots de crème with ginger pear
These baked chocolate custards are a winning trifecta of dark chocolate, pear and ginger.
Black and white cheesecake
It's double the chocolate and double the fun with this cheesecake. Are you game to try it?
Raw black forest truffles
Clean eating takes an even tastier turn.
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Meet your maker: Complements chocolates
These inventive modular sweets seamlessly
pair food and design.
Avocado-chocolate mousse
Chocolate and avocado - the unlikely combination you never knew you needed.
White chocolate and raspberry ice-cream choux stack
A tower of pastry and ice-cream, crowned with fresh and freeze-dried raspberries? Now that sounds fun.
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Frozen spiced chocolate pavlova
Dark chocolate semifreddo is topped with a cinnamon, clove and nutmeg-spiced pavlova for a show-stopping finish to a meal.
Cassata
Cassata recipe - For sponge cake, preheat oven to 180°C and butter a 21cm-diameter cake tin and a 27cm x 37cm Swiss roll tin and line each with baking paper. Whisk eggs, sugar and a pinch of salt
Chocolate cannoli
Chocolate cannoli recipe - Pulse flour, sugar, cocoa and cinnamon in a food processor to combine, then add butter and whole beaten egg and process until a soft dough forms.
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Mascarpone mousse, berries and caramelised white chocolate
"This is our take on berries and cream, with the addition of a simple and delicious spice cake and caramelised white chocolate," says Andreas Papadakis.
Savarins
The best thing about savarins? You can always add more rum.