Delightful recipes for all chocoholics

Chocoholics take note – at last a book that explains how to make a velvety mousse with just chocolate and water

Every now and again a cookbook comes out that ticks all the boxes – easy to find ingredients, simple instructions, a multitude of recipes that you want to try right away and photography that leaves you salivating.

South African food blogger Katelyn Chocolate is just that.

It features dozens of beautifully illustrated recipes from truffles, Easter eggs and sweet Valentine seductions to how to feed latenight Williams’ chocolate craving when you only have cocoa in the kitchen cupboard.

The sweet-toothed will love the book’s original, melt-your-heart offerings including a wicked assortment of dark, milk and white chocolate-based recipes to satisfy every whim: the eating kind, the dipping kind, the drinking kind and the spreading kind.

There are fruity thrills such as white chocolate and naartjie malva pudding and dark chocolate orange brûlée custard slices; crunchy treats like rooibos biscotti with almonds and white chocolate chunks, or macadamia-nut honeycomb with chocolate salt. Williams provides many SOS tips to rescue you from your chocolate cravings: minimum ingredients, maximum results.

A food stylist, food photographer and recipe developer with over 10 years experience working in television and magazines, Williams’ baking and dessert blog, TheKateTin.com, won Best Food Blog in South Africa in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

After studying to be a professional pastry chef at the Institute of Culinary Arts in Stellenbosch, she worked in various restaurants and hotels before joining Top Billing and eventually becoming its food editor.

Her journey in print and television continued at Expresso (SABC3), where she became well-known for her sweet tooth and for creating recipes accessible to all who share her obsession with baking.

Below are some recipes from the book, which is published by Human & Rousseau and available from booksellers at R380.