Ed serves chocolate three ways: a dark chocolate fondue, chocolate lava cakes and milk chocolate mousse. Fresh strawberries and strawberry mousse provide another option.

Ed suggests mixing and matching different salad/dessert plates to provide maximum entertaining versatility and style. As shown here, he chose to mix traditional patterns like Paradise Red and Paradise Black by ROYAL ALBERT and Provence Noir by ROYAL DOULTON with modern patterns by ROYAL DOULTON like Nightscape (8-inch salad plate and 9-inch black accent plate).

DR. OETKER is famous for its quality dessert mixes, and its Mousse dessert mix is no exception. Ed serves Milk Chocolate and Strawberry flavours, but others to choose from include Dark Chocolate, Vanilla and calorie-reduced light mixes. Simply add 1 cup of milk and whip with an electric mixer. For an elegant presentation, spoon into crystal champagne flutes (shown in Saturn pattern by ROYAL DOULTON CRYSTAL) and chill for 1 to 2 hours. It can be served plain or garnished with fruit, whipped cream, or a wafer. For more great dessert ideas, visit oetker.ca

DR. OETKER Chocolate Lava Cakes take minutes to make and miraculously ooze warm chocolate sauce from the center of a deliciously moist chocolate cake. Available in three flavours, each package comes with aluminum baking cups to make four cakes. The secret is in the two different powders, which get mixed with just eggs and water. Allow 20 minutes to make (5 minutes to prepare, 8 minutes to bake, and 7 minutes to cool). Invert onto dessert plates (Royal Doulton Precious Platinum 8-inch brown accent plates shown) and serve warm.

Serve Dr. Oetker's Chocolate Irish Cream Lava Cakes with a Bailey's cocktail. Yum!

Melt 8 oz semi-sweet LINDT chocolate with 1/3 cup evaporated milk in a saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula. Once the chocolate is completely melted, transfer to the stoneware casserole from Trudeau’s 3-in-1 electric fondue. Place casserole in the stainless-steel fondue pot with boiling water in the bottom. Variation: Substitute some of the evaporated milk with a liqueur such as Baileys or Grand Marnier.

Offer guests Nabob's new Full City dark roast coffee.

Serve coffee with a selection of liqueurs such as Grand Marnier.