It sounds horribly sickly to me. If the person really loves good chocolate, rather than just sugary stuff, I don't think it would hit the spot. The chocolate is milk, only 41% and there's only 160grams. If you want an intense chocolate flavour without the sickliness I'd suggest this one. The Famous Chocolate Truffle Torte | Recipes | Delia OnlineIt uses 400gr of 70% dark chocolate and contains far less additional sugar.

think I agree with Flora. A really good chocolate tart is a thing of delicious wonderness or a really adult colcolate cake like this Fondant recipe is more sophisticated.

Fondant au chocolat.
This is really between a fondant and a molten larva cake.
Melt 200g chocolate
In mixer, whisk 150g butter with 150g sugar.
Add 3 eggs
Add 50g flour, then the chocolate. Bake 30 minutes. It sill be wonderfully gooey inside.

I find the salt very objectionable and would not eat it.

It comes somewhat close to a Snickers bar (I like the ones with almonds), except that Snickers are not polluted with pretzels. I also won't eat candy that has been salted.

Thank-you! All of you. I couldn't even imagine what it could be. Floral's recipe sounds much more comprehensible to me, but it would cost way too much. There's British grocery an hour away with more reasonable prices, but more than made up for with gas or shipping. Oh! Wait! on a whim after writing that, I checked the snooty store, which is about 4-5 miles from me. Much better prices! I've saved the recipe, and I'm sure to try it.

IC’s fondant sounds easier to and more specifically chocolate. Thanks!

Lars, when I looked at the recipe, I had the thought! ”Lars wouldn’t like this.”

Or...I could make a regular chocolate cream pie or custard pie, but with Valrhona, and top it with milk caramel. Maybe use low salt pretzel sticks for the crust, to add some crunch. To capture some of the flavor that I thought sounded nice from the original recipe.

Good long giggle over IC's typo! I would love to make a molten larva cake! But maybe for a 10 year old boy. Figuring out how to make the chocolate larvae melty but still have form and tooth would require a lot of attention. I wouldn't want to just do chocolate coated gummy worms. I'd want them to be big and bumpy, and eat like chocolate... But then, if it works for the lava aspect, put them in blond chocolate. I suppose white, blond or ruby would be more convincing but I think the wigglers really have to be smack you over the head chocolaty.

I love good salted caramels and good, salted, high octane chocolate but the recipe reads like a dog's dinner of mass produced confectionary. And, just personally, I can't stand Oreos. If I'm going to scoff calories they have to be worth it!

I had the same reaction as Lars. Save the time and just buy a candy bar or a box of good chocolates?

Way too ooey-gooey sweet for me, but I know people who would go for it big time. I do like the sweet/salty part.

Like Lars, I thought of Snickers…which I like.

Floral, I take your point. It's not mass produced chocolate—it's a small independent in SoCal—but the oreos (which I'd probably replace with other chocolate crumbs) and the boughten caramels (which I might have replaced with homemade if I could figure out the weights) bring it down. It just sounded sort of like a fudgy Twix bar pie, which tickled my fancy, but as I said, it's so far from anything I’ve ever made or eaten, I couldn't imagine the reality at all!

Lizbeth, I was only on the website to look at their gift boxes. :) There are a couple local chocolatiers who have monthly deliveries, which I thought would be nice, but they don't have enough variety, just a new box of choclates every month with a negligible theme. And I think the celebrant would like something homemade better, so I'm thinking a One time variety gift box from Chuao (bonbons, truffles, bars and hot chocolate mix) and some kind of homemade chocolate pie, or perhaps Floral's truffle cake. I'm sure regular American chocolate birthday cake will be covered, Perhaps, I'll make more things through the year. Or send more individual boxes. I'm trying to figure it out.

More like straight up candy than a pie, IMO.

I also know some who would absolutely love it.

My recommendation for a good source of easy and impressive chocolate recipes is Ann Reardon's How 2 Cook That - she's on YouTube as well...

https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/

If you ever want to buy caramels, buy these Shotwell Candy Co. Oprah named them one of her favorite things one year. A friend gave me some. I wanted to sit down and eat every single one right then and there.

FWIW, I like my candy and desserts sweet and I don’t mind a bit of salt on caramel or chocolate.

The closet I've ever been to cooking with candy (as opposed to cooking candy, which I've done), is putting M&M’s in cookies. Oh, and I guess marshmallows and Jell-o count, but besides them, and baking chocolate, none at all.