Impress the chocoholic in your life with chocolate shortcrust pastry filled with a rich chocolate ... When the dough just sticks together in clumps, form it into a ball. Knead it very lightly ...

Lisa Faulkner cooks up a lamb shank pie and a chocolate pavlova ... making a cross cut where the bone of the shank sticks up. Gently ease the pastry down around the bone so that it sticks through ...