excellent easter chocolate

Our really easy chocolate cake recipe is perfect for birthdays. It’s so moist and fudgy and will keep well for 4–5 days. For buttercream quantities, instead of ganache, use our <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/sponge_cake_calculator">cake calculator</a>.

Each serving provides 477 kcal, 6.5g protein, 56g carbohydrates (of which 40g sugars), 25g fat (of which 10.5g saturates), 2.5g fibre and 0.6g salt.

Easy chocolate cake

flour

350 grams/12½oz caster sugar

cocoa powder

1½ tsp baking powder

1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

free-range eggs

250 milliliters/9fl oz milk

125 milliliters/4½fl oz vegetable oil

tsp vanilla extract

250 milliliters/9fl oz boiling water

chocolate

200 milliliters/7fl oz double cream

This fantastically easy chocolate fudge cake is rich, moist and treacly with a glossy ganache finish.

Chocolate fudge cake

dark chocolate, chopped

200 grams/7 ounces butter, cubed,

100 milliliters/3½fl oz water

grams/4½oz self-raising flour

grams/4½oz plain flour

sugar

golden caster sugar

75 milliliters/2½fl oz crème fraîche

dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids)

grams/3½oz unsalted butter, softened

icing sugar

150 milliliters/5¼oz double cream

unsalted butter

150 grams/5¼oz dark chocolate, plus extra chocolate shavings, to decorate

The clue to the richness of this recipe is in the name. Millionaire's shortbread is easy to make with condensed milk caramel and a buttery biscuit base.

Millionaire's shortbread

175 grams/6 ounces unsalted butter, cold,

75 grams/2¾oz caster sugar

butter

condensed milk

golden syrup

dark chocolate,

You can choose any filling you like for these easy little homemade chocolates. They are ideal as sweet nibbles or as a gift for family and friends.

Equipment: you will need a large silicone ice cube tray. 

Homemade chocolates

grams/10½oz milk

grams/3½oz desiccated coconut

200 milliliters/7fl oz condensed milk

marshmallows

tbsp peanut butter, crunchy

fruit and nut mixture

Making your own filled chocolates using an ice cube tray.

DIY chocolates

Brilliant to make with children over the holidays, these easy chocolate Easter nests are a perennial favourite.

Chocolate Easter egg nest cakes

grams/2¾oz cornflakes

chocolate eggs

This mini egg cheesecake is topped with a cute chocolate nest, but if you want to keep it simple there are lots of lovely mini eggs mixed through the cheesecake, too.  It's a no-bake recipe, so dead simple to make, but it needs a few hours to set (or ideally overnight).

Mini egg cheesecake

chocolate digestives

melted,

full-fat cream cheese,

90 grams/3¼oz icing sugar

vanilla bean paste

320 milliliters/11fl oz double cream

320 grams/11½oz sugar-coated chocolate mini

grams/1 ounces Shredded Wheat cereal

grams/2½oz chocolate,

salted butter

These delicious milk chocolate mousses are laced with amaretto and can be made a day ahead and chilled in the fridge, or use the freezer for a quicker set. 


Chocolate and amaretto mousses with raspberry sauce

grams/5½oz milk chocolate, broken into pieces (see tip)

amaretto,

eggs,

raspberries

tbsp amaretto

tbsp orange juice

½–1 tsp caster sugar

This chocolate drip cake is the ultimate birthday treat for chocolate fans.

For this recipe you will need four 20cm/8in sandwich cake tins (approximately 4cm/1.5in deep), a 20cm/8in and a 30cm/12in cake board, two non-slip cake mats trimmed to about 18cm/7in and 25cm/10in diameter, a cake side scraper and a medium piping bag with a large star-shaped nozzle. 

Chocolate drip cake

400 grams/14 ounces plain flour,

1½ tsp baking soda

270 milliliters/½ pint milk

300 grams/10½oz dark soft brown sugar

300 grams/10½oz caster sugar

free-range eggs, beaten

double cream

250 grams/9 ounces salted butter,

tbsp vanilla extract

chocolate,

grams/1½oz salted butter

sunflower oil

grams/3½oz chocolate,

Edible gold lustre dust, for dusting the dark chocolate shards

Make a birthday special with Mary Berry's chocolatiest of chocolate sponge cakes. It is super easy to bake and is covered with a rich, dark chocolate ganache.

Chocolate sponge cake

water

tbsp milk

baking powder

grams/4 ounces baking spread butter

300 grams/10 ounces natural caster sugar

150 milliliters/5fl oz double cream

apricot jam

I have always avoided making chocolate tarts because I have never really felt that the pastry served the chocolate, or was worth the effort. This is my simple solution: make a base out of chocolate biscuits. And the filling is just as easy to make, too. I never lie about how effortless something is to make, but no one will believe me on this one.

For this recipe you will need a 23cm/9in deep-sided (approx. 5cm/2in deep), loosebottomed flan tin.

Salted chocolate tart

x 154 grams/5½oz packets chocolate cookies,

dark chocolate (min. 70% cocoa solids)

grams/1¾oz unsalted butter, softened

½ tsp smoked sea salt flakes (see tip section)

grams/3½oz dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids)

cornflour

tbsp full-fat milk

500 milliliters/18fl oz double cream

grams/1¾oz cocoa powder, sieved

espresso powder coffee powder

75 grams/2½oz caster sugar

vanilla paste

olive oil

¾ tsp smoked sea salt flakes

I have always avoided making chocolate tarts because I have never really felt that the pastry served the chocolate, or was worth the effort. This is my simple solution: make a base out of chocolate biscuits. And the filling is just as easy to make, too. I never lie about how effortless something is to make, but no one will believe me on this one.

Nigella's easy rocky road will never be out of place at a birthday party or school bake sale.

Rocky road crunch bars

125 grams/4½oz soft unsalted butter

200 grams/7¼oz rich tea biscuits

100 grams/3½oz mini marshmallows

Oh boy! Chocolate, cheesecake – what’s not to like? And everyone knows that Belgian chocolate is the best in the world. Just thinking about this makes us weak at the knees – not one for the faint hearted.

Chocolate cheesecake

full-fat cream cheese

200 milliliters/⅓ pint soured cream

150 grams/5½oz caster sugar

eggs

sunflower oil,

300 grams/10½oz chocolate oat biscuits

butter, melted

Belgian chocolate truffles

white chocolate, for grating, or icing sugar

This dense and fudgy brownie recipe adds chocolate hazelnut spread into the mix as well as crunchy toasted hazelnuts.

Gooey chocolate hazelnut brownies

grams/3½oz plain flour

¾ tsp baking powder

salt

300 grams/10½oz dark chocolate, at least 70% cocoa solids

100 grams/3½oz hazelnuts, roughly chopped

grams/3½oz chocolate hazelnut spread (optional)

milliliters/2fl oz hazelnut liqueur (optional)

This is one of those dark, squidgy-bellied chocolate cakes that I turn to gratefully when I have friends over to supper; a gratitude that is always reciprocated. The mixture of ground almonds and amaretto gives a marzipan kick, balancing the bitterness of the chocolate. The amaretti cream alongside brings both smoothness and a fine honeycomb crunch to the velvetiness of the cake. 

Equipment: You will need a 20cm/8in springform cake tin.

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