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Recipes with drinking chocolate

8 recipes that use drinking chocolate, with photos, step-by-step instructions and cook times. The quickest, Chocolate fudge icing (eggless), takes 10 minutes. It is most often cooked with butter, cocoa powder and icing sugar.

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Pistachio cookies

Buttery cookies with chopped pistachios, crushed rice bubbles, coconut and a hint of chocolate, each topped with more pistachio. Crunchy outside and tender inside.

40 minBaking
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Chequered biscuits

Pretty slice-and-bake butter biscuits with a chocolate and vanilla chequerboard in the middle, wrapped in a plain border. They take some patience to build, but the dough is simple and the result always impresses on a biscuit plate.

75 minBaking
by KrazyBadal 0 views

No-bake squares

Quick no-bake squares of crushed digestive or marie biscuits, chopped cashews and almonds, bound with butter, golden syrup and drinking chocolate. Ready in two hours with no oven.

20 minDesserts
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Eggless dark chocolate cake

A dark, moist eggless chocolate sponge, split and moistened with orange juice, filled and covered with whipped fresh cream, and finished with halved strawberries and grated chocolate. A show-stopping birthday cake.

80 minBaking
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Fruit loaf

An eggless, dark and spicy fruit loaf flavoured with cocoa, cinnamon and black treacle, with mixed nuts and dried fruit. It is brushed with brandy while warm and dusted with icing sugar. Serve in slices with fresh cream. Leave out the sherry and brandy for an alcohol-free loaf.

65 minBaking
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Chocolate fudge icing (eggless)

An eggless chocolate fudge icing made with butter, milk, cocoa and drinking chocolate. Coat the cake while the icing is still warm; it thickens as it cools and can also be piped.

10 minBakingGluten free
by KrazyBadal 0 views

White chocolate temptation

A rich no-bake dessert of ground brown bread mixed with drinking chocolate, nuts, dried fruit and brown sugar, soaked with cream and topped with a smooth white chocolate, cream cheese and sour cream layer. It's creamy, chocolatey and fruity. Make it in a glass bowl and serve chilled.

35 minDesserts
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Peanut ice cream

A no-churn vanilla ice cream layered with home-made peanut crunch: roasted peanuts stirred into caramelised sugar, cooled and coarsely ground. It's creamy, crunchy and salty-sweet. Makes about 3 litres; the book also gives chocolate and cashew crunch versions.

40 minDessertsGluten free
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Goes well with drinking chocolate