Satisfy that chocolate craving as soon as it strikes with Mug Cakes: Chocolate - over 30 recipes for quick and delicious chocolate cakes that require minimal effort and time. Mix a simple batter in a mug with a fork, using whatever ingredients you have in your cupboard, microwave for a few minutes, and zap! You have a heavenly, gooey cake to indulge in all by yourself. Mug Cakes: Chocolate shares recipes for all varieties of chocolate cakes, from the simple dark chocolate; banana and chocolate; and chocolate orange to cakes which push your mug-cake-making skills to the max, like the swirl marshmallow or marble cake. Use your chocolate favourites of Nutella, Crunchie bars or Oreos and make irresistible cakes in a matter of minutes. Ideal for one (or maybe two if you're feeling friendly), these cakes are perfect for when you're low on ingredients or don't want the effort of making a large cake that takes an hour to cook. When you're looking for a quick treat - in front of the TV, for kids after school, or for an impromptu dessert - Mug Cakes: Chocolate will have you sorted. With a cute design and photographs to show you that these cakes really do turn out looking scrumptious, all you need is five minutes to spare, a microwave, and a serious cake craving!

The original hardback gained universal praise; 'A fascinating account' said the TLS; echoed by national and local press; 'A fascinating book full of off-beat information', wrote Derek Cooper. This book looks beyond the brilliant colours of the sweet-shop shelf and consider the ingenuity of sugar boiling and the manufacture of those intriguing avatars of childhood happiness: the humbug, the gobstopper, the peardrop and the stick of rock. As well as a history, it is also a recipe book, with twenty tried and tested methods for sweets ancient and modern. Who has not wondered how they got the marbling into humbugs and the fantastic patterns into Just William's gobstoppers? The byways of knowledge that are illuminated make this so rewarding. Did you know how they got the letters into rock? How they twisted barley sugar? The difference between fudge and tablet? The connection between humbugs and an Arab sweet from 13th-century Spain (where it was borrowed it from the Persians)?