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Chocolate pots are one of my favourite desserts to make when I have friends over for dinner. Everyone (and I really do mean everyone) loves them and they always go down so well, but they’re so, so easy to make. Embarrassingly easy, in fact (don’t tell your guests, just let them be impressed).
I like to jazz my chocolate pots up in different ways. In the past I’ve shared my salted caramel version, and this time I made these super easy peanut butter chocolate pots. Swooooon.
When I say easy, I really do mean that a four year old could make them (with the appropriate supervision, of course). A lot of chocolate pot recipes use eggs, but in my opinion there’s no need to faff about with things like that – if you’re anything like…
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