Can Witches and Chocolate Go Together?

Last week we had a cookbook and this week we have one as well because you still have time to make plans if you want to whip up something homemade for the spooky holiday. Will Fortuna Noir's The Witch's Cookbook: 50 Wickedly Delicious Witchcraft-Inspired Recipes give us more of that chocolate and cocoa we need and want here on The Chocolate Cult? I was sent a free copy of the cookbook via the publisher and the Amazon Vine program in exchange for sharing my honest experiences with it in a review there; no other form of compensation was received and this article is a bonus. You ready to get your witch on and see if these recipes can add some darkness to you Halloween?

We'll start with the table of contents as we did last time.

There is an introduction as well as a conclusion, but really four chapters with recipes: Breakfast and Brunch, Lunch and Dinner; Appetizers and Sides, and finally Desserts. This is a different way from most cookbooks I've reviewed over the decades, not a bad way to organize, just different.

The book has this wonderful creepy, dark theme that runs throughout with a lot of images of the recipes as well as other witchy drawings or photos. Not every recipe has a photo of the finished dish. The darkness made it difficult to see the page numbers many times, which is a problem because I wanted to find those chocolate and cocoa inclusive recipes.

Each recipe includes a brief introduction explaining why it may connect to witchcraft or wiccan beliefs; that was both fun and educational.

Each recipe lists the ingredients on the left-hand side and then the directions on  the right. Most of the directions are easy to follow if you have some experience in with cooking or baking.

Many of the recipes use pre-made or store bought ingredients which really speeds up preparation and let's more cooks of different experience levels try them out. Some of the recipes even build upon each others such as "Gold Pentacle Pancakes" using the cakes from Cerridwen Goddess Pancakes.

Of the 50 recipes, six include chocolate in some way. That's still less than 1 in 10 recipes with chocolate, so disappointing here on The Chocolate Cult. Three of these are for breakfast and three are for desserts, it would have nice to have a recipe that used dark chocolate chocolate in a main course, don't you think.