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Emelia Jackson’s chocolate mousse.

Emelia Jackson’s light, airy chocolate mousse is the sweetest way to see in 2025

This make-ahead retro dessert, an irresistible combination of dark chocolate custard and whipped cream, is making a comeback on restaurant menus.

  • < 30 mins
  • Emelia Jackson

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Katrina Meynink’s two-tone jelly and panna cotta.

Raspberry, moscato and elderflower jelly with yoghurt and white chocolate panna cotta

On our hot Christmas days, this light and refreshing pudding is the kind of dessert we all need.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Tip: Serve the rum balls with extra toasted coconut.
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Follow these six rules to take your rum balls to the next level this Christmas

Katrina Meynink gives the festive favourite a toasty, tasty upgrade. Pa-rum, pum-pum, pum.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Siren cake.

How to make this ultra-mousse-y chocolate cake from baking queen Nadine Ingram

The founder of Sydney pastry shop Flour and Stone shares the recipe for her beautiful siren cake from her new cookbook, Love Crumbs.

  • Nadine Ingram
Chocolate prices are set to rise sharply.

Why a global cocoa crunch will sour chocolate for years to come

But spare a thought for the small family farms of West Africa, who aren’t getting their fair share of soaring commodity prices.

  • Mike Foley

Sunday bake: Helen Goh’s double rhubarb, white chocolate and almond loaf cake

An unassuming cake full of rich texture and bursting with “little pockets of flavour”.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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Leanne and Ian Neeland, founders of  Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery.

Chocolate lovers forced to pay more for less as cocoa costs soar

Soaring cocoa prices have shaken Australia’s $5.5 billion chocolate industry, putting smaller chocolate makers at risk.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
William Angliss Institute students making chocolate.

‘Everyone loves chocolate’: Cocoa fiends flock to chocolate festival

Chocoholics headed to Abbotsford Convent to give thanks for chocolate.

  • Carolyn Webb
Crepes with hazelnut chocolate spread and bananas.
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Crepes with bananas and home-made hazelnut chocolate spread

Julia Busuttil Nishimura tops the weekend brunch favourite with velvety choc-nut spread and fresh fruit.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Danielle Alvarez’s chocolate loaf cake with mascarpone icing.
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Chocolate loaf cake with mascarpone icing and jam

Its simple batter comes together in one bowl, and the mascarpone icing can be whipped up by hand.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez

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