23 Blackcurrant And Chocolate Recipes

If you’re ever stuck for recipe ideas when it comes to blackcurrants, you have come to the right place. Here you’ll find 23 creative blackcurrant and chocolate recipes from a whole host of food bloggers. And yes, you read that right, they all involve chocolate in some way, shape or form.

Blackcurrants

Bad cop is back! We’ve had two easy and straightforward challenges from two wonderful guest hosts and I feel it’s time for something a bit more challenging. I have a hideously awful significant birthday this month, so if I have to suffer, I don’t see why the rest of you shouldn’t too. Actually, I did throw it open to discussion on Twitter – easy or challenging? The overwhelming response was to go for challenging. So here goes – it’s blackcurrants.

Whilst I was visiting my mother earlier this month, I noticed that the blackcurrants in her garden are nearly ready. The bushes are 45 years old and still going strong. So for me blackcurrants epitomise my birthday month, July. Surprisingly, since starting this blog, I have only posted one recipe and it was hardly an unqualified success – chocolate and blackcurrant roulade. So I thought it was time to raise the bar.

For those that don’t grow blackcurrants or know someone you can wrest some off, never fear, I’ve allowed blackcurrant jam, cassis, blackcurrant syrup and even Ribena.

We Should Cocoa

Well it looks as though I pulled off my bad cop persona well for this month’s We Should Cocoa as virtually everyone has been telling me that blackcurrants are a really challenging ingredient. Many have been unable to get hold of the fresh berries, some don’t like them and a few didn’t know what they were.

Luckily the vast majority of sceptics were pleasantly surprised when they tried the blackcurrant and chocolate combination and have now been converted to its delights. Once again an amazing display of collective creativity and talent is abundantly displayed. Despite this somewhat difficult challenge, I’ve still received 37 entries, so a big well done to everyone.

If anyone is stumped as to what to do with blackcurrants in the future you now know where to come.

23 Creative Blackcurrant And Chocolate Recipes

Blackcurrant Caramel Brownie

Chris of Cooking Around the World got things off to a flying start by tempting me with these very gooey blackcurrant caramel brownies made with blackcurrant jam. Not content with the calorific brownies alone, he served them with hazelnut semifreddo – oh boy!

Chocolate Berry Pavlova

Janice of Farmersgirl Kitchen followed next with one of my absolute favourites, a pavlova. A chocolate and berry pavlova to be precise. Now if there is one thing better than meringue, it is a chocolate meringue topped with summer berries and cream. And just look at that mouth watering layer of chocolate on which the cream and berries are sitting. Cleverly she used frozen berries.

White Chocolate Blackcurrant Ice Cream

Here’s some white chocolate and blackcurrant ice-cream looking fabulicious and professionally served in a cone with sprinkles and the whole works. Ren of Fabulicious Food reckons she may have found the perfect recipe with this one – an easy to make, no churn ice-cream. She was unable to find fresh berries so used frozen ones.

Blackcurrant Glazed Chocolate Cakes

I was pleased to see my old childhood treat, Ribena, make an appearance in these blackcurrant glazed chocolate cakes. Angela of Garden, Tea, Cakes and Me used Ribena both in the cake batter and the glaze but suggested they would be rather good with cassis instead – now there’s a suggestion.

Blackcurrant Chocolate Friands

Having recently been introduced to friands (little almond cakes), I was thrilled to see these blackcurrant chocolate friands. Made by Linzi of Lancashire Food with her own freshly picked blackcurrants, this was an experiment which looks as though it worked well.

Posh Jammy Dodgers

Jill of Lapin D’or and More took the humble Jammy Dodger and transformed it into something else entirely. A hazelnut biscuit sandwiched with layers of chocolate hazelnut praline and homemade blackcurrant jelly then drizzled with chocolate, these would look at home in any top patisserie and make a fine contribution to these 23 creative blackcurrant and chocolate recipes.

Blackcurrant & White Chocolate Cookies

Biscuits were also my choice, although I did also make this blackcurrant rose and white chocolate ripple ice-cream. I really like the contrast of sweet white chocolate and tart juicy fresh blackcurrants and they worked really well in these blackcurrant and white chocolate cookies.

Chocolate Brownies

You can never have too many brownies in my book, which is just as well. These brownies from Galina of Chez Maxima have the added benefit of being gluten free. She used redcurrant jelly as a glaze and topped them with fresh blackcurrants.

Blackcurrant Jam Cake

Suelle of Mainly Baking opted to use white chocolate for her pairing with the blackcurrants. Inspired by US jam cakes, Suelle used blackcurrant jam to make this blackcurrant jam cake and topped it with a cheese and white chocolate topping.

Chocolate Berry Pudding

I’m very pleased to welcome Maria of Box of Stolen Socks to WSC as she has come up with a pudding which sounds delicious and is positively good for you. Her chocolate berry pudding not only contains frozen blackcurrants, but also avocado and raw cocoa powder. It’s also nice and simple to make.

Blackcurrant Ice Cream

Lucy The KitchenMaid made a wonderful sounding Queen of puddings for We Should Cocoa, but was unable to take a photo. A jar of plum, blackcurrant and lime jam made by a friend, found its way into this old favourite – as well as chocolate of course. Luckily, she also made some no churn blackcurrant ice-cream for which she did have a photo.

Blackcurrant Macarons

Janine over at Cake of the Week was doing a tour of friends and family early in the month and made some blackcurrant macarons to take along with her. Filled with a ganache made from white chocolate and blackcurrant jam, I’m feeling rather sorry I wasn’t one of the lucky people being visited.

Blackcurrant Chocolate Mousse Cake

Another WSC newby, Mari of Nutty Tart has rocketed in with an absolute masterpiece. Using fresh blackcurrants, she has made this visually stunning three layered blackcurrant and chocolate mousse cake – it sounds rather tasty too.

Dark Chocolate Blackcurrant Cake

Fellow Cornish Blogger the HungryHinny hunted high and low for fresh blackcurrants only to be told they were late coming into season this year. In the end she made a dark chocolate blackcurrant cake using blackcurrant jam. She bit into this very tentatively as she’d once had an allergic reaction to Ribena and hasn’t tasted blackcurrants since. Luckily all was well and the HungryHinney can now eat blackcurrants.

Kir Macarons

Hooray for creme de cassis. Mel of Sharky Oven Gloves, currently residing in New Zealand where blackcurrants are very much out of season at the moment was able to resort to alcohol! Kir in fact, a mixture of white wine and cassis which she used to make these magnificent kir macarons.

Blackcurrant Jam Thumbprint Biscuits

Described by Johanna of Green Gourmet Giraffe as a cross between a brownie and a jammy dodger, I for one am not going to be able to resist making a batch of these most scrumptious sounding chocolate walnut thumbprint biscuits with blackcurrant jam. As already stated blackcurrant jam was the topping of choice, but the biscuits unusually contained walnut oil as well as ground walnuts – mmmm!

White Chocolate Blackcurrant Apricot Cake

Caroline of Cake, Crumbs and Cooking was chuffed to find that her rather neglected blackcurrant bush had actually produced some fruit this year. She wanted to bake a simple cake to show of her berries which she’s done to great effect in this rather delicious sounding white chocolate, blackcurrant and apricot cake.

Chocolate Blackcurrant Cake

This rich and indulgent torte like chocolate and blackcurrant cake comes from Jean of Baking in Franglais. Jean managed to buy a punnet of fresh blackcurrants on a visit to Cumber Park where they had been picked from the garden that morning.

Chocolate Blackcurrant Cupcakes

More mini cakes, this time from Maggie of Kitchen Delights who produced these chocolate and blackcurrant cupcakes. Maggie used fresh blackcurrants in the cake batter and then frosted some for decoration where they look absolutely splendid.

Chocolate Blackcurrant Marshmallows

And for something completely different again. Ros, The More Than Occasional Baker made chocolate marshmallows with blackcurrant jam filling. Ros wasn’t too happy with the result as she didn’t think they set properly and were more jelly than mallow. Luckily, she reports that they tasted delicious, which after all is the thing that really counts. I know I would have been very happy eating my way through them.

Chocolate Blackcurrant Cookies

Vikki from Cake Fairy Blog was looking forward to using tart juicy, colourful blackcurrants, but was also unable to source them. She did, however, discover yogurt coated blackcurrants – at two o’clock in the morning! I didn’t know such things existed. With them she made some delicious chewy chocolate and yogurt coated blackcurrant cookies.

Blackcurrant Ice Cream With White Chocolate

For another take on the frozen stuff, I too have a recipe for blackcurrant ice cream. Mine is rippled through white chocolate cream. Of the three blackcurrant ice-creams, Ren’s, Lucy’s and mine, all are made with condensed milk, chocolate and blackcurrants, but all are quite different. It’s quite astonishing what you can do with more or less the same ingredients.

Blackcurrant Beach Brownies

Now if there is one thing better than brownies, it’s probably brownies on the beach. The magnificent Dom of Belleau Kitchen made blackcurrant beach brownies using fresh juicy blackcurrants for his mother’s birthday. Despite his worries about using salted butter, they turned out beautifully – of course.

And if you fancy trying my wholemeal version, you’ll find my recipe for blackcurrant brownies here on Tin and Thyme.

Double Chocolate Summer Berry Truffle Slice

Karen of Lavender and Lovage has such a way with words and always great pictures. The title of her bake alone makes me want to dive straight in. Using her own homegrown fresh blackcurrants, Karen has given us double chocolate and summer berries truffle slice.

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Thanks for visiting Tin And Thyme. I hope you’ve found at least one recipe that appeals to you in this collection of 23 creative blackcurrant and chocolate recipes. I’ve added them all to the We Should Cocoa board on Pinterest, so do feel free to pin away when I’ve done so.

If, however, you’d rather go for a blackcurrant recipe that doesn’t contain chocolate, I have something that should do the trick. Head over to this post for all the blackcurrant recipes you’ll ever need.

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