For chocolate
When only chocolate will do — mousses, ganaches, molten centres and one Viennese icon.
15 recipes
🇦🇹 AustriaSachertorte
Vienna's dense chocolate cake, split with apricot jam and coated in a glossy chocolate glaze.
🇫🇷 FranceOpéra Cake
Seven precise layers of almond sponge, coffee buttercream, and chocolate ganache.
🇫🇷 FranceFondant au Chocolat
Equal weights of chocolate and butter, barely any flour, blasted hot then baked low — a whole cake with a fudge centre.
🇫🇷 FranceMousse au Chocolat
Julia Child's bistro mousse: chocolate melted with butter and coffee, folded into rum-scented sabayon and meringue, set overnight.
🇫🇷 FranceSoufflé au Chocolat
Chocolate, cream and eggs in a buttered-and-sugared ramekin, twelve minutes in the oven and served before it falls.
🇮🇹 ItalyTorta Caprese
A dense, flourless chocolate-almond cake from Capri, born from a baker's mistake.
🇫🇷 FranceProfiterole
Choux puffs split and filled with ice cream, drowned in warm dark chocolate sauce.
🇫🇷 FranceÉclair
Crisp choux pastry logs filled with pastry cream and glazed with chocolate.
🇺🇦 UkraineKyiv Cake
The 1956 Kyiv classic: two discs of crisp hazelnut meringue sandwiched with a cognac-scented custard buttercream, half of it turned chocolate.
🇭🇺 HungarySomlói Galuska
Budapest's 1958 prize-winner: plain, walnut and cocoa sponges layered with rum syrup, apricot jam and pastry cream, scooped into 'dumplings' under whipped cream and chocolate.
🇩🇪 GermanySchwarzwälder Kirschtorte
Black Forest cake — kirsch-soaked chocolate sponge layered with cream and sour cherries.
🇮🇹 ItalyBaci di Dama
'Lady's kisses' — two round hazelnut cookies sandwiched with dark chocolate.
🇫🇷 FrancePoire Belle Hélène
Escoffier's 1864 tribute to an Offenbach operetta: a whole poached pear, vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce.
🇫🇷 FranceDacquoise
Nut meringue baked crisp, cut into slabs and stacked with ganache and hazelnut buttercream — the marjolaine.
🇫🇷 FrancePain au Chocolat
The same laminated croissant dough, folded around two batons of dark chocolate.