List of recipes using Dark chocolate: 20 recipes (gluten free)

Chocolate cream

A very simple recipe with a really chocolatey taste. Cream, milk and chocolate, mixed with egg-yolks and sugar, then cooked in the oven in a bain-marie, like for crème brulée.

Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse

This is a chocolate cream with chopped candied grapefruit peel and caramelized nuts added to give bit of crunch. The small pot of cream is topped with an Irish coffee mousse (flavours of coffee, fresh cream, sugar and whisky).

Chocolate mendiants

Mendiants are made with a thin layer of chocolate, stuck with toasted nuts, dried and candied fruit.

Chocolate mousse

Here is a simple quick recipe for chocolate mousse. It is just necessary to be careful at the final stage, when mixing the melted chocolate and the beaten egg-whites.

Chocolate mousse with hazelnuts

Here is a marvellous new chocolate mousse recipe that will delight real chocoholics. This is a rich, gourmet version, though not over-sweet and with the added crunchy texture of toasted hazelnuts. You'll love this one!

Chocolate orangettes for Erika

Orangettes are candied citrus peels (oranges or grapefruit) cut into sticks and coated in chocolate. This delicious confection blends the slightly tangy flavors of candied peels with the sweetness of chocolate.

Chocolate rice pudding

If you're already a fan of classic rice pudding, I'm sure you'll enjoy this even more comforting version, made with two kinds of chocolate.

Chocolate sauce

This rich smooth chocolate sauce, with its full flavour, is one of the indispensable ingredients of profiteroles, but it can be used with many others desserts.

Chocolate thins with toasted nuts

A very thin disc of chocolate, topped with toasted nuts and candied grapefruit peel.

Chocolate-chestnut cream cake

A delicious and very moist cake, where the flavors of chestnuts and chocolate are perfectly balanced.

Chocolate-verbena cream

A chocolate cream with delicious aromas of fresh verbena.

Mint and chocolate cream

Inspired by the chocolate cornstarch cream, this cold cream, with the very matching flavors of mint and chocolate, will give you a delicious and quick dessert.

Mousse with two chocolates

Chocolate mousse is a great classic home-made dessert. Here's a version using two different chocolates (dark and milk) with a hint of vanilla, that owes much to a recipe by Christophe Michalak.

Hot chocolate

Here's something simple to cheer up cold days, or a delight to look forward to on coming home after a walk in the rain.

Italian hot chocolate

This delicious, custardy chocolate treat is made in minutes. A treat for kids (and big kids) to enjoy at teatime, or any other time.

Chocolate Chantilly

If we look at the more scientific side of Chantilly cream we can see that it's mainly cream, and cream is a mix of very small droplets of milk fat and water, which is called an emulsion. When we whip this emulsion, we incorporate air into it and so create a mousse or foam. In the end Chantilly is a foaming emulsion. The interest of this observation is that we can imagine doing the same not only with cream. We just need water and...

Chocolate ganache

A chocolate ganache is a mixture of cream and chocolate made while hot. This gives a kind of paste which solidifies somewhat as it cools but remains fairly soft. This is the filling used in many chocolates.

Paris flan filling

This is how to prepare the custard filling for a classic Parisian "flan". This is not the whole recipe, just the filling mixture, which can be used in lots of other flan-style recipes on this site.

How to break a chocolate bar into small pieces

Most of the time chocolate needs to be broken into small pieces before use, because it melts faster and more evenly. Here is a way to do it quickly.

How to make chocolate chips

These chocolate chips, very fine, are perfect for decorating a dessert, but they can also be incorporated in a preparation like mint ice-cream for example.