We Should Cocoa kicks off year seven with these 13 charming chocolate recipes. A new year means a new style and in case you missed it, we are no longer doing themed challenges. Anything that incorporates chocolate in one of its many forms can be included – as long as it’s vegetarian friendly of course.
This post is in the process of being updated. Do take a look though, there are plenty of scrummy recipes here.
This month’s We Should Cocoa seems to be heavily influenced by the much loved Great British Bake Off. How sad I am that the production company has sold out and the BBC that has nurtured and developed the programme for so many years has been cold shouldered.
But I digress; here, in the order in which they arrived, I give you 13 charming chocolate recipes. You’ll find the October linky at the bottom of the page. Please join in. All photos are pinned to the We Should Cocoa Pinterest Board, so do hop on over to see some of the previous recipes.
Traybakes
Coconut Chocolate Crunch
I used cornflakes to make this cinnamon coconut chocolate crunch extra crunchy. They worked well, but were way too tempting.
Millionaire’s Shortbread
Whoa! Who can resist millionaire’s shortbread? Certainly not the kids over at Apply to Face Blog.
Millionaire’s Shortbread (vegan)
For a healthier take on one of the sweet treats we Brits love so much, try these no bake vegan millionaire’s shortbread over at The Baking Explorer.
Peanut Butter Millionaire’s Shortbread
In fact we have three lots. These smart salted peanuts & peanut butter millionaire’s shortbread from Jo’s Kitchen Larder sound equally good. Now I’m stuck as to which one to try first.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Fudge Squares
Salted caramel and chocolate fudge squares sound just too good to miss. The credit for this clever invention goes to Suelle at Mainly Baking. I can’t resist salted caramel.
Sloth Slice
Even though it’s not summer in Melbourne, this sloth slice (brilliant name) is super easy to make and won’t keep you chained to the kitchen for very long at all. This easy choc chip slice from Green Gourmet Giraffe is made from condensed milk, chocolate and coconut. It sounds scrumptious and just the sort of thing I’d be tempted to eat far too much of.
Muffins
Blood Orange Chocolate Muffins (Gluten-Free)
The title alone has me desperate to try one of these gluten free blood orange and chocolate muffins from Heather at Snack to the Future.
Chocolate Courgette Rye Muffins
These chocolate courgette rye muffins from Sneaky Veg are sweetened with banana and honey and sound delicious.
Banana Yoghurt White Chocolate Muffins
Banana cake is another firm favourite and it gets even better with chocolate. These banana yogurt cupcakes with chocolate chunks from Chez Maximka are guaranteed to cheer up any forlorn boys looking for something tasty to eat.
Double Chocolate Cream Cheese Muffins
double chocolate cream cheese muffins from Jo’s Kitchen Larder
Bread And Buns
Double Chocolate Chip Buns
According to Sammie at Feasting for Fun, her double chocolate chip iced buns are the best tasting chocolate buns ever. I for one believe her.
Cinnamon Chocolate Hazelnut Buns
Much as I love cake, I find it almost impossible to resist a good bun. And you must have buns for Easter. These cinnamon and chocolate hazelnut buns from Dom at Belleau Kitchen are completely irresistible.
Everything Else
Not quite #GBBO, but Galina at Chez Maximka has adapted a Mary Berry recipe for Apple and raisin cake
Chocolate Crunch Meringues
Inability to resist. Chocolate crunch meringues from Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen.
Ricotta Chocolate Cake
Alida over at My Little Italian Kitchen makes the most delectable Italian confectionery. This ricotta chocolate cake with its layers of white and dark reminds me a bit of my black bottomed cupcakes only much more elegant.
Coffee Cardamom Chocolate Mousse Cake
I made one of the best cakes ever, though I do say so myself. Darkly divine this coffee cardamom chocolate mousse cake is best served in small slices and works well as a dinner party dessert with crème fraîche if liked.
Chocolate Rum Raisin Coconut Lime Cake
My double delight bundt cake made with chocolate rum & raisin and coconut lime batters swirled together requires the oven to be on. But even the hottest summers have birthdays and other celebrations in need of cake, so I’m making no apology for my contribution to these 7 easy summer chocolate recipes.
Peaches Pistachio And Chocolate
And now for something rather different, which is perhaps no surprise as it’s coming from the ever creative Lucy at The Kitchenmaid. Peaches with pistachio and chocolate are the sort of snacks I’d now very much like to have at my disposal. Now where can I find good dried peaches?
Chocolate Banana Cashew Cake (vegan)
My healthy vegan bake for Veganuary was this chocolate banana cashew cake. It’s one of the best chocolate cakes I’ve made.
Peanut butter is as popular as bananas and brownies this month. Go find the recipe for this peanut butter & chocolate banana bread at Curly’s Cooking.
When you fancy a chocolate cake, why not make a polenta chocolate cake? That’s what Galina did after googling for a recipe. And guess what? She only came up with an ancient one of mine. Hers looks a lot better and is more sophisticated with an addition of whisky. It’s been too long since I made that cake.
Shaheen from Allotment2Kitchen kicks things off nicely with these banana muffins with cocoa crumble topping.
Whilst not quite the one cake I asked for, I couldn’t help but include these stunning triple chocolate mini bundts. Stacy of Food Lust People Love has created a real showstopper or should I say showstoppers.
Chocolate Marmite Caramel Fudge
Shaheen, over at A Seasonal Veg Table has gone for something slightly different. Yes, it’s a sweet sticky buttery chocolatey February delight, but it’s made with a surprise ingredient. Here you have chocolate Marmite caramel fudge.
Chilli Chocolate Chip Friands
I’ve made a lot of friands over the years and these gluten free chilli chocolate chip friands are possibly my favourite.
Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Chocolate and peanut butter are a match made in heaven. I think I’d like this vegan chocolate peanut butter cake from Caroline Makes for my birthday please.
For a slightly healthier but equally pretty treat, we have vegan sweet potato fudge with cacao nibs from A2K – A Seasonal Veg Table.
Whilst I’m talking pretty, I think this might be the prettiest battenberg I’ve ever seen. It’s a gluten free cherry-chocolate battenberg cake with cherry marzipan from The Gluten Free Alchemist.
These hot cross bun chocolate bread and butter pudding may not be quite what you’d expect at this time of year, but there were hot cross buns languishing in the freezer at Caroline Makes, so what was she meant to do?
Not only is it CT’s birthday today, but it’s also Harry Potter’s. To celebrate this and the publication of the latest Harry Potter tale, Ness over at JibberJabberUK has made this sticky chocolate birthday cake – any schoolboy’s dream.
Miss GF gets creative in the kitchen again with these stunning chocolate & mint whoopee pies. You’ll find the recipe over at The Gluten Free Alchemist
Coconut features strongly in these dairy free chocolate sultana cakes from Fun as a Gran. Coconut oil and some delicious sounding coconut caramel were the stars of the show.
Rich Chocolate Coconut Cake
Oh those pesky summer colds! Over at The Beach Hut, it was all about snuggling up on a wet day and curing the sniffles with a rich chocolate and coconut cake. It just happens to be naturally gluten free too.
Gateau Au Chocolat De Nancy
A classic French almost flourless cake from As Strong As Soup. Most unually, his gâteau au chocolat de Nancy contains potato flour, which makes it happily gluten-free.
vegan cocoa bean cake from Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
Decadent fudgy chocolate and pistachio slice from Suelle at Mainly Baking made with condensed milk and a biscuit base.
Chocolate chunk cookie dough traybake from Caroline Makes – now those are what I call chocolate chunks.
One of two chocolate birthday bundts for Miss GF by Kate at Gluten Free Alchemist.
Triple Chocolate Buns
My nod to National Chocolate Week were these triple chocolate buns and very nice they were too.
Mayonnaise Chocolate Cake (vegan)
Have you ever tried a mayonnaise chocolate cake? It’s not as strange as you might think. Johanna over at Green Gourmet Giraffe has made this vegan version and it sounds gorgeous.
Chocolate Chip Pancakes (gluten-free)
And some incredibly delicious gluten free chocolate chip pancakes from Camilla at Fab Food 4 All to finish us off nicely.
Pancakes With Chocolate Jam And Bananas
A beautiful stack of pancakes comes next, made my Johanna of a Green Gourmet Giraffe with help from her daughter, Sylvia. Layered with chocolate, jam and bananas, these wonders are entirely vegan.
Double Chocolate & Irish Cream Malted Milkshake
Another super malted recipe. This double chocolate & Irish Cream malted milkshake from Munchies and Munchkins has my name written all over it.
Agave Nectar Chocolate Cake
There is something about the word nectar which just conjures up something completely sublime. Linzi from Lancashire Food had my mouth watering straight away just from the title of her agave nectar chocolate cake.
Shrink Mummy Shake
A chocolate detox drink sounds like a bit of a contradiction, but Sarah of Maison Cupcake has invented just such a wonder. Her shrink mummy shake has me off to the shops later to buy some bananas, not something you see that often in this household.
Cocoa Bean Husks
Now how about this brilliant recipe from Lucy The KitchenMaid? It’s perhaps not a recipe we would want to tuck into, but cocoa bean husks are an excellent ingredient for the garden which can produce lots of lovely things to eat. What I’m wondering is, do the vegetables end up tasting of chocolate – now wouldn’t that be something?
Sammie says
Gorgeous collection of chocolate recipes. I’m off to have a look at the recipes and read their blogs.
Choclette says
There are some lovely recipes Sammie – there always are 🙂 Thanks for joining in this month.
Kate - gluten free alchemist says
Lovely round-up Choclette. Sorry I didn’t get to join this month….. sadly the couple of Chocolate experiments I made were a bit of a disaster and need some re-working…. I am sure their time will come though….. x
Choclette says
Oh no Kate, not a chocolate disaster! I did miss your contribution last month, so hoping you’ll have more success this time around 🙂
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says
Ooh the peanut butter blondies look awesome. Another fab round up Choclette!
Choclette says
Doing the #WeShouldCocoa round-up is always fun, if a little hunger inducing!
Nico @ yumsome says
Oh my goodness – so much chocolate., so little time! I absolutely must try out Suelle’s blondies!
Choclette says
Hehe, exactly Nico. Blondies should come with a warning though, they are seriously good.
All That I'm Eating says
How would I even begin to know which one to try first? They all sound so good!
Choclette says
The secret is, to try a little bit of all of them – or at least that’s what I wish I could do 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says
We can never have enough chocolate decadence in our lives!
Choclette says
Hahaha Rebecca. I think we might, but I wish it didn’t matter 😉
Lucy says
Mmm what a marvellous roundup of some wonderful chocolatey recipes! I would definitely like to try out a lot of these recipes. If only I could have a virtual slice! Thanks for including my challah.
Choclette says
Me too Lucy. A virtual slice would be good, but I think I’d prefer an actual slice. Your challah is fantastic. Thanks for joining in.
Johanna @ Green Gourmet Giraffe says
Lovely round up choclette – making me quite hungry – my freezer is full of enough sweet food that it is hard to find an excuse to bake but I hope to get this dire situation under control (ha ha) and find something for this month
Choclette says
Oh, how I wish our freezer was better stocked. It’s full of very worthy stuff, but it would be so good to be able to pull out a relatively healthy treat when I need one, rather than dashing down to the shops and buying a very unhealthy one.
Nayna Kanabar says
These all look droolworthy and so chocolicious!!! Lovely collection of chocolatey recipes
Choclette says
Thanks Nayna. Do join in if you can. Anything that includes chocolate counts.
munchies and munchkins says
Once again I forgot to link up and once again I am drooling at the recipes that did get linked up! I must do it next month I must!!
Choclette says
You absolutely must Rebecca. I’m not very good at reminders and need to send out more.
jenny paulin says
so many delicious chocolate recipes here – spoilt for choice!
thank you for mentioning mines
Choclette says
Thanks for joining in Jenny. Your whirls were fab 🙂
Heidi Roberts says
Gosh so many chocolate recipes in one place – my teeth are aching to bite into all of them!
Choclette says
Yes Heidi, I know what you mean, I’m always a bit regretful when I do these round-ups that I can’t try everything.
GALINA V says
Goodness, what a feast! Love the variety of recipes. Absolutely gorgeous.
Choclette says
Aren’t they just and your apple cake definitely sounds like something I need to try.
Shaheen says
It was nice to join in again and oggle such lovely creations.
Choclette says
So pleased you joined in Shaheen. I always enjoy your recipes 🙂
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
wow..a chocolate heaven!
Choclette says
Indeed Angie. Doing the #WeShouldCocoa round-ups always leaves me craving chocolate 😉