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Chocolate Celebration Cake Recipe from The Cultured Club Cookbook

My first real epiphany in the dessert realm was making raw cakes. It was a natural step that I should make them even more digestible by using fermented nuts in the filling, making the cakes lighter and even easier to digest. The Cultured Club’s chocolate celebration cake recipe has been known to take on many …

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Coconut & Chocolate Macaroons Recipe by Madeleine Shaw

Coconut and chocolate are a match made in heaven. This coconut and chocolate macaroons recipe makes the perfect on-the-go snack and I love popping a few in my bag for that 4pm ‘tea and cake break’ with a twist. Ingredients: – 400ml can coconut milk – 2 tbsp coconut oil – 3 tbsp honey – …

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Chocolate and Orange Tartlets Recipe by Catherine Fulvio

Chocolate and Orange Tartlets Recipe by Catherine Fulvio

Sometimes, even at weekends, time is too short to make your own pastry, so good quality ready-made pastry is perfectly fine for this chocolate and orange tartlets. The small tartlets are the perfect bite-sized treat. Makes 24 small or 8 x 10cm tartlets Ingredients: – Melted butter, for greasing – Plain flour, for dusting – 375g …

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Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe by Rosanna Davison

I made this rich, decadent and creamy chocolate cheesecake recipe for my family on Christmas Day last year and it was a huge hit. It tastes just like the real thing, but uses healthier ingredients, free from refined sugar, gluten and dairy. It’s so easy to make and keeps very well in the fridge. Ingredients: …

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Banana Bread

One-Bowl Peanut Butter Banana Bread Recipe by Darina Coffey

Love baking but hate washing up? My one-bowl peanut butter banana bread recipe is the answer to your prayers. Packed with chocolate chunks, flaked almonds and gooey cinnamon-spiked banana, this beauty requires minimal effort for maximum pleasure return. The best part? This banana bread keeps really well so would make a perfect naughty breakfast treat, …

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Chocolate Pot Recipe by Tom Walsh of Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links

The Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links has just been treated to an extensive refurbishment. As part of the revamp of the hotel, they have a new Executive Chef in the form of Tom Walsh, previously of Dromoland Castle, Clontarf Castle, Aqua, Luttrellstown and most recently Roganstown. Here Tom shares his recipe for his take on …

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Flourless Chocolate Torte Recipe by Chef Gearóid Lynch

Flourless Chocolate Torte Recipe by Chef Gearóid Lynch

This flourless chocolate torte recipe is both rich yet light in texture. The coffee enhances the chocolate flavour. You could make a raspberry torte by placing fresh or frozen raspberries on the base of the dishes and then covering with the chocolate mixture. Makes 4 individual tortes Ingredients: – 125g gluten-free dark chocolate drops (70% cocoa solids) – 60g butter, plus extra …

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Chocolate Almond Butter Bark Recipe by The Wonky Spatula

Chocolate Almond Butter Bark Recipe by The Wonky Spatula

This Chocolate Almond Butter Bark is insanely good!! I had such a craving for something sweet and wanted something straight away, but rather than just go for either the chocolate or the almond butter I decided to be a little adventurous! The result? Well I’ll let the photos speak for themselves! You are going to …

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Balloon Ice-cream Cups

Chocolate Balloon Cups with Popping Candy Recipe by Chef Louise Lennox & Aishling Larkin of Foodoppi

These Chocolate Balloon Cups are so cool – this week you learn how to make chocolate cups from water balloons – I know – madness!! Serve with some of our crazy science ice cream and our Food Art fruit skewers and you have a sweet treat everyone will be talking about. Serves 6 Ingredients: – 250g candy melts …

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Dark Chocolate Tart with Honeycomb and Pistachio Meringues by Chef Shane Smith

Dark Chocolate Tart with Honeycomb and Pistachio Meringues by Chef Shane Smith

This velvety smooth dark chocolate tart has a truffle like interior and the jewel encrusted toppings on this crown guarantee’s to be one of the chicest tarts you will come across this summer. Makes 1 rectangular tart (14″ x 5″) Ingredients: Sweet pastry – 250g butter – 250g caster sugar – 2 eggs – 500g plain …

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Fiona Uyema Kaki Persimmon Fruit Tart

Kaki Persimmon Fruit Tart Recipe by Fiona Uyema

I remember collecting buckets of persimmon fruit (also called sharon fruit) with the elementary school children behind the local school where I worked in Japan. It reminded me of how we pick apples here in Ireland. In the past few years I was delighted to see this beautifully coloured fruit in my local supermarket. It …

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Peachy Palate Chocolate caramel pecan squares

Chocolate Pecan Caramel Squares Recipe by Peachy Palate

These Chocolate Pecan Caramel Squares are one of the most delicious treats I’ve made to date. As someone who prides themselves on their raw/no bake creations, from samoa squares to raw brownies, homemade Mars and Almond Joy bars to pies of the almond butter and key lime varieties (find these recipes here) that really is …

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Susan Jane White Chocolate Torte

After Eight Chocolate Torte Recipe by Susan Jane White

The mere whiff of cacao butter sends a cavalry of hormones pelting through my veins like a pinball machine. My chest swells and my nostrils levitate. It would be a tragedy to miss out on a cacao butter head rush. You think I’m joking? I get regular bulk deliveries and squeal louder than a One …

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Karyn Ryan Mississipi Mud Pie

Mississippi Mud Pie Recipe by Karyn Ryan

February is the month of love, and of chocolate. My daughter Amy’s Mississippi Mud Pie will definitely put a smile on your face. Ingredients: Crust – 140g Digestive Biscuits – 85g chopped hazelnuts – 1tbsp light brown sugar – 1/2tsp cinnamon – 85g melted butter Filling – 225g butter – 175g chopped plain dark chocolate – 125ml golden syrup – 4 large eggs beaten …

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Vegan Cacao Delights Recipe by Anna-Jane Kingston

Oozing with goodness and flavour, these delightful little treats might just knock your socks off! Don’t be deceived by their simple appearance, because once you pop them into your mouth -you’ll be pleasantly surprised. There are so many ways to experiment with this recipe too, you can roll them around in cacao nibs, desiccated coconut …

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Karyn Ryan Espresso Chocolate Fudge Cake

Espresso Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe by Karyn Ryan

If you want to finish off your Christmas dinner in style than this Espresso Chocolate Fudge Cake with Amaretto Biscuits and Chocolate Ganache fits the bill. With a hint of Espresso and some Amaretto biscuits, there will be no need for coffee! Ingredients: – 50g best-quality cocoa powder, sifted – 100g dark brown muscovado sugar – 250ml boiling …

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Carmel Hall Chocolate Straws with Dip

Dark and White Chocolate Straws Recipe by Bridget Harney

Dark and white chocolate straws are like cheese straws except with chocolate. What’s not to like? The base of these is an unsweetened cocoa pastry topped with a mixture of chopped chocolate. The sweetness really comes from the white chocolate, and the time in the oven caramelises the sugar in the white chocolate to give …

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