The best Very Good Recipes of Chocolate from Alessandra Zecchini

There are 31 Chocolate recipes on the blog Alessandra Zecchini. (12495 on all the blogs)

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Vegan and sugar free chocolate mousse -

Alessandra Zecchini 05/10/22 06:53
I am on a diet but really wanted some chocolate for Mother's Day, something mostly raw, low carb and healthy. This dessert is so easy and delicious that I made it two days in a row, once with hazelnuts and once without. I'll share the basic recipe: 12 dates...
- Chocolate Mousse
- Sugar Free
- Chocolate
- Mousses
- Sugar
- Vegan
After dinner chocolate kawakawa -

Alessandra Zecchini 03/18/19 09:05
This is better than after dinner chocolate mints, and very much a New Zealand foraging option! Kawakawa abounds in the 'bush' (forest) where I live and it is by far my favourite NZ foraged leaf. I often make tea, use it for custards instead of vanilla,...
- Chocolate
- Dinner
Two layers Vegan Chocolate Soy Cream Pudding -

Alessandra Zecchini 02/07/18 03:02
In Italy I found a really delicious soy cream which inspired me to make a rich chocolate pudding. Ingredients: 1 tbsp flour 2 tbsp raw sugar 500ml soy milk 120 g best quality dark chocolate (plus some to grate) 200ml soy cream Mix the flour and sugar, add...
- Chocolate
- Pudding
- Cream
- Vegan
- Soy
Vegan chocolate semifreddo, two ingredients only -

Alessandra Zecchini 06/29/17 11:13
This is intense and delicious, and yes, only two ingredients are required (well, plus water...). It tastes quite a bit like nama choco, an amazing Japanese chocolate which is made with cream, but there is no cream here, and it is also incredibly easy to...
- Ingredients
- Chocolate
- Vegan
Vegan chocolate and coconut cream puddings with edible flowers -

Alessandra Zecchini 01/21/16 04:33
1 can coconut cream 1 l oragnic soy milk (I use Vitasoy, either Original, Milky or Calci Plus) 4 tbsp raw sugar 2 heap tbsp cocoa (the better the cocoa the better the flavour, so don't go for cheap baking cocoa, but for 'hot chocolate' quality) 2 tbsp cornflour...
- Coconut Cream
- Chocolate
- Pudding
- Flowers
- Coconut
- Edible
- Cream
- Vegan
Cioccolatini ripeni alla crema di pistacchio e mandorla- Chocolates filled with pistachio and almond cream -

Alessandra Zecchini 06/26/15 01:16
I have already made these using hazelnut (see recipe here), once again you just need two ingredients: dark chocolate and pistachio or almond cream from Italian Foodies. Step 1 Melt the chocolate at bain Marie and line the chocolate moulds (I used silicone...
- Chocolate
- Pistachio
- Almond
- Cream
- Crema
Mandarin and blueberry chocolates -

Alessandra Zecchini 04/26/15 08:14
I made these with my daughter, we used Fresh As freeze dried mandarins and blueberries, plus some dark chocolate (the darkest the better for me, and chose a non-dairy one for vegan chocolate). Just need to melt the chocolate and then half dip the mandarin...
- Chocolate
- Blueberry
- Mandarin
Italian Hazelnut cream chocolates - 2 ingredients -

Alessandra Zecchini 03/19/15 21:26
Impress your guests with homemade chocolates! They are easy to make and You need only two ingredients to make these chocolates: some dark chocolate (your favourite, I like to use over 70% dark) and some Italian hazelnut paste, I got mine in Auckland from...
- Ingredients
- Chocolate
- Hazelnut
- Italian
- Cream
Do you know the name of these Campanula flowers, and Vegan chocolate pudding with strawberries and edible flowers -

Alessandra Zecchini 12/14/14 01:43
Sue gave me these beautiful flowers, the purple ones smell like honey, so delicious! I believe that they are a type of Campanula (bell flowers), but I don't know the exact name. Do you? Vegan chocolate pudding with strawberries and edible flowers Arantxa...
- Chocolate pudding
- Strawberries
- Chocolate
- Flowers
- Pudding
- Edible
- Vegan
Vegan chocolate pudding with strawberries and edible flowers -

Alessandra Zecchini 12/09/14 10:01
Arantxa picked flowers from the garden: roses, lavender, sage, violets and nasturtiums I made my trusted vegan chocolate pudding, and since we are in season I wanted to top it with some strawberries, and maybe some flowers too? So I asked Arantxa to look...
- Chocolate pudding
- Strawberries
- Chocolate
- Flowers
- Pudding
- Edible
- Vegan
Chocolate and plum mousse with Italian meringue base and Fresh As plum powder -

Alessandra Zecchini 11/14/14 23:46
What I like about mousses is that you can just improvise, and as long as you beat well the main ingredients (eggs and cream) you can never go wrong! I made this with Arantxa; while I made the Italian meringue and whipped the cream she whipped the egg yolk,...
- Chocolate
- Meringue
- Italian
- Mousses
- Plum
- Base
Raw, vegan, sugar free and gluten free chocolate truffles -

Alessandra Zecchini 07/03/14 13:15
Yes these are raw, vegan, sugar free and gluten free chocolate truffles, but what's more they are made using only 4 Fair Trade ingredients: Trade Aid Palestinian almonds, Trade Aid cinnamon, Trade Aid Madjoul dates, and Trade Aid baking cocoa, plus one...
- Chocolate Truffle
- Gluten Free
- Sugar Free
- Chocolate
- Truffles
- Sugar
- Vegan
- Raw
Vegan and gluten free chocolate pudding for Sweet New Zealand -

Alessandra Zecchini 04/08/14 05:30
This is sooooo yummy, it reminds me of those soy chocolate puddings that you can buy in the fridge compartment of many organic-vegetarian stores (and now in some supermarkets too) but it is homemade and therefore even tastier. For 4 puddings: 500 ml oragnic...
- Chocolate pudding
- New Zealand
- Gluten Free
- Chocolate
- Pudding
- Sweet
- Vegan
Chocolate, strawberries and cream pudding -

Alessandra Zecchini 12/19/13 05:47
This dessert has three layers, and the first is a velvety chocolate pudding made with 3 egg yolks, 3 tbsp of sugar, 500 mil of full cream milk and plenty of Peruvian cooking chocolate (milk or dark, I used milk here). I didn't measure the chocolate, but...
- Strawberries
- Chocolate
- Pudding
- Cream
Chocolate, vanilla, cream... and grappa desserts in fancy grappa glasses -

Alessandra Zecchini 06/24/13 07:44
I have these really cute grappa glasses, they are small straight tubes with one side of the glass almost 'melted' into it, like a thumb had been pressing it... and in fact it is quite nice to hold! Possibly these are not so practical for dessert (fortunately...
- Chocolate
- Desserts
- Vanilla
- Grappa
- Cream
Churros con Chocolate, Alfajores, dulce de leche, Neruda... so many things in Valparaiso -

Alessandra Zecchini 04/03/13 20:13
So many things to do and see in Valparaiso! And to learn! First I learned that in Chile cappuccino coffee is a strange coffee drink with whipped cream on top, and if you want something similar to an Italian cappuccino or flat white you need to ask for a...
- Dulce De Leche
- Chocolate
- Churros
Hot chocolate spoons, and recycling Christmas Cards -

Alessandra Zecchini 12/16/12 23:25
For the hot chocolate spoons I used little wooden spoons, the idea is simple, just dip the spoon in a cup of hot milk and stir! They are perfect for little present, inside a little bag with a Christmas card for backing. Now this idea may not suit everybody,...
- Hot Chocolate
- Christmas
- Chocolate
- Cards
Chocolate and cardamom pudding with berries, and over 3,000 views -

Alessandra Zecchini 12/09/12 10:19
Yesterday Google recorded 3,228 page view, a new record for me, and interestingly over 2,000 views were from the UK (which is usually 4th or 5th in the audience statistics). Once again most viewed post was this one, but the Turkish delights also did well,...
- Chocolate
- Cardamom
- Pudding
Fresh As raspberries, lychees and feijoas dipped in dark chocolate -

Alessandra Zecchini 12/01/12 10:16
Usually every Christmas I make dried apricots, nuts and other dried fruit dipped in dark chocolate, but this year I am using Fresh As freeze dried fruit. The flavour is really intense, and the texture completely different, crispy and fresh! I used dried...
- Dark Chocolate
- Raspberries
- Chocolate
- Lychee
- Feijoa
Vegan chocolate brownie... and remember Sweet New Zealand, 3 days to go -

Alessandra Zecchini 09/25/12 11:45
This didn't start as a brownie, it started as a vegan chocolate-hazelnut spread. I had some hazelnuts to roast, and after doing that I decided to use a few for a nutella like spread, but vegan... and more chocolaty :-). Vegan chocolate-hazelnut spread 5...
- Chocolate Brownie
- New Zealand
- Chocolate
- Brownie
- Sweet
- Vegan