Jamie Oliver's Chocolate Dessert Ideas

Here we take a very close look at Jamie Oliver's chocolate dessert ideas and learn exactly how to make all of them. Featured are many video recipes of this world famous celebrity chef making chocolate desserts to quickly get you on your way to making them like a pro yourself.

Remember that you can also visit Jamie Oliver's YouTube channel for tons of other mouth-watering video recipes.

So, you want to learn how make delicious chocolate desserts? Here you will learn step-by-step how to make Jamie's Ultimate French Toast; chocolate pots; chocolate cakes; chocolate brownies; hot cross buns; chocolate tart and chocolate mousse! Which one will you try first?

Ultimate French Toast

We start off on this chocolate dessert quest with Jamie Oliver's Ultimate French Toast video recipe. Choclolate and bread actually can come together to form delicious dessert.

Ingredients

• Eggs
• Vanilla extract
• Cinnamon
• Regular bread
• 70% solid dark chocolate
• Butter
• Banana
• Hazelnuts
• Sugar
• Greek yogurt

Ingredient Highlight: Hazelnut, also known as filbert, is an edible nut from large shrubs and trees of the birch family. Hazelnuts are very healthy because they provide vitamin E, healthy fats, protein, fiber, plus they are low calorie and have no cholesterol.

The how-to instructions for this chocolate french toast dessert are found on the video featuring Jamie Oliver below. Quote of the Dessert: "So crispy outside, fluffy inside, oozy chocolate, caramelized banana, come on! This is gonna be the best breakfast brunch ever."

Super Fast Chocolate Pots

Next up is Jamie Oliver's Super Fast Chocolate Pots. Because I has no clue what a chocolate pot was, I was curious to see the results. Jamie demonstrates the ideal types of cookies and snacks for dipping into these pots.

Ingredients

• 70% solid chocolate
• Organic cream
• Butter
• Brandy
• Egg yolks
• Salt

Ingredient Highlight: The basic standard for a dark chocolate bar to be considered dark is when it contains at least 70% cocoa. Generally the higher the percentage of cocoa means it will have less sugar. Dark chocolate bars can have as much as 90% cocoa or higher but these deliver a more bitter blow to the taste buds.

Jamie's cooking instructions for this dessert idea are provided on the video below. Quote of the Dessert: "So ladies, gentlemen wherever the love is in your life, do a chocolate pot, make something for someone you love."

Chocolate Cake

This is the first of three types of chcolate cakes Jamie Oliver makes. The other two chocolate cake recipes immediately follow this one.

After he places the two cakes in the oven, for the icing Jamie makes creme chantilly and chocolate sauce.

Ingredients

• Cocoa powder
• Butter
• Sugar
• Boiling water
• Eggs
• Plain flour
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Almonds
• 70% solid cocoa
• Icing sugar
• Milk
• Double cream
• Vanilla extract
• Strawberries
• Red Raspberries

Ingredient Highlight: Red raspberries are rich with fiber and easily out perform blueberries and strawberries when it comes to this important nutrient. Red raspberries are also very high in vitamin C. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant and has an important role in the health of your bones, skin, teeth, and even joints for its ability to increase to production of collagen.

Jamie's instructions for this chocolate dessert cake are provided on the video below. Quote of the Dessert: "Chocolate time and I'm just gonna pour the sauce on. As it cools down this chocolate will get much thicker."

Homemade Chocolate Celebration Cake

This is another version of chocolate cake called the Celebration Cake that is topped with butter cream. In this example Jamie Oliver made it for his daughter's birthday.

Ingredients

• Golden caster sugar
• Icing sugar
• Butter
• Solid cocoa
• Eggs
• Vanilla paste or extract
• Orange gratings
• Self-raising flour
• Salt
• Red raspberries

Ingredient Highlight: Golden caster sugar, compared to regular caster sugar, has a touch of molasses that gives it golden color and a hint of caramel flavoring.

Jamie's instructions for homemade chocolate celebration cake are on the video below. Quote of the Dessert: "It's an amazing chocolate cake that is so simple, so reliable, so delicious."

Homemade Chocolate Cake

There are no eggs in this oozing chocolate cake recipe, in fact there are only seven total ingredients, eight if you count the yoghurt topping. However, Jamie does enourage the cake maker to use their own ideas for fruity ingredients to add if desired.

Ingredients

• Butter
• Solid chocolate
• Hazelnuts
• Self-raising flour
• Milk
• Sugar
• Salt
• Yoghurt

Watch Jamie Oliver quickly assemble this homemade chocolate dessert cake on the video below. Quote of the Dessert: "So the 18 minutes are up, the room smells amazing, come on look at that!"

Chocolate Brownies

This chocolate dessert idea is a very unique take on chocolate brownies. Topped with vanilla ice cream, hazelnuts and pop corn, these brownies are cooked crisp on the outside but a little under cooked and soft in the middle.

Ingredients

• 70% solid cocoa
• Butter
• Eggs
• Sugar
• Self-rising flour
• Salt
• Vanilla ice cream
• Hazelnuts
• Pop corn

Ingredient Highlight: According to the International Dairy Foods Association, vanilla is America's favorite ice cream followed by chocolate, cookies & cream, mint chocolate chip, with chocolate chip cookie dough rounding out the top five.

This chocolate brownie dessert recipe made by Jamie Oliver is found on the video below. Quote of the Dessert: "It's gonna be crisp and it's gonna puff up and then it's gonna crack. It's gonna be gooey in the middle, it's gonna blow your mind."

Chocolate Hot Cross Buns

Even better? This is a unique version of hot cross buns and it looks insane. Being very rich in chocolate sets this dessert apart from regular hot cross buns recipes. The cocoa powder does its own thing while the solid chocolate evolves into a gooey center as it bakes. Note that the paste blend used to make the decorative crosses on the buns is simply water and flour.

Ingredients

• Cocoa powder
• Solid chocolate
• Butter
• Golden caster sugar
• Sugar
• Nutmeg
• Flour
• Yeast
• Whole milk
• Organic eggs
• Salt
• Raisins
• Honey
• Rosemary

Jamie Oliver's complete instructions for making these chocolate dessert buns are provided on the following video. Quote of the Dessert: "Oh, mmmm. That is really good! Crispy on the top, spongey in the middle. Naughty and delicious, and a brilliant evolution of the classic hot cross bun."

Chocolate Tart

It's officially a tart dessert but it could be called the Aston Martin of chocolate pie. It has the basic look of chocolate pie but with a lot more horsepower.

Ingredients

• Sweet pastry tart crust
• 70% solid chocolate
• Cocoa powder
• Unsalted butter
• Eggs
• Sugar
• Salt
• Sour cream
• Golden syrup

Ingredient Highlight: Golden syrup was created in London, England by brother chemists Charles Eastick and John Eastick in the late 1800's. Golden syrup is made by heating and stirring cane sugar and water together until it becomes an amber color from carmelization. Lemon is added and when the syrup cools down it has a similar thickness to honey.

Jamie Oliver's instructional video for this is posted below. Quote of the Dessert: "Now things like chorizo of course have a lot of ingredients in them so that's one ingredient working really really hard."

Double Malted Chocolate Cookies

Celebrity vlogger Alfie Deyes joined Jamie in the kitchen to make double malted chocolate cookies.

Ingredients

• 70% solid chocolate
• White chocolate
• Butter
• Salt
• Condensed milk
• Almonds
• Horlicks malted milk powder
• Self-raising flour
• Maltesers

Ingredient Highlight: Created by Forrest Mars, Sr. in England in 1937, Maltesers are product of Mars, Inc. The round candies consist of a malted milk center surrounded by an outer coating of milk chocolate. Malted wheat and malted barley make up 72% of the malt center. The English translation of Maltesers is "man of Malta".

The instructional video for this Jamie Oliver choclolate dessert is posted below. Quote of the Dessert: "for you today first of all we're gonna make, oh wait for it, Devils double malted chocolate cookies. They're crispy on the outside, they're gooey in the middle, they're delicious, and the second treat it's only Alfies Deyes girls."

Amazing Chocolate Mousse

The final two chocolate dessert ideas by Jamie Oliver are chocolate mousse, starting with the Amazing Chocolate Mousse recipe.

Ingredients

• 70% solid chocolate
• Butter
• Double cream
• Vanilla paste
• Cocoa powder
• Cap full of favorite booze (optional)
• Sugar
• Egg yolk
• Egg whites
• Fruit

Ingredient Highlight: Vanilla paste also known as vanilla bean paste, is a blend of vanilla beans, sugar, and corn syrup that is combined with water and boiled. Once the boiling is complete the mixture is strained into a bowl, resulting in a syrup-like liquid.

See exactly how this chocolate dessert mousse is made from start to finish in the video posted below. Quote of the Dessert: "Then I'm going to put a tiny pinch of salt into there and if you think that's weird, it actually seasons the chocolate and helps it get chocolatier."

Chocolate Mousse Surprise

Looking at the picture above you can see that this choclolate mousse dessert has its own special thing going on when compared to the one above. The distinct look is actually from the clever use of an avocado skin. Jamie's son stops in and lends a hand and Mrs. Oliver is given the honors of tasting the finished treat.

Ingredients

• 70% solid chocolate
• Cocoa powder
• White chocolate
• Avocado
• Coconut cream
• Maple syrup
• Salt
• Fruit
• Sour cherry syrup

Ingredient Highlight: Orignating in southern Mexico thousands of years ago, Avocados are a great source of several nutrients including omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins C, E, K, B6, riboflavin, niacin, folate, pantothenic acid, and te minerals magnesium and potassium.

Jamie Oliver's instructional video for this chocolate mousse recipe is posted below. Quote of the Dessert: "OK so in a matter of a minute look what we've got. Silky, gorgeous, chocolatey heaven. Look at that!"