Recipes with chocolate

Steamed chocolate hazelnut pudding with grated chocolate, ground hazelnuts, and folded egg whites, served with lightly whipped cream. A classic British-style dessert.

Two-color chocolate brownies: ultra-rich dark chocolate brownies with walnuts, topped with a white chocolate cream icing and ground nuts. A bakery-style double-batch for a crowd.

Mokettes aux amandes, French chocolate truffles flavored with rum-pounded almonds, coffee concentrate, and powdered sugar, rolled in grated chocolate. The vintage Belgian-French confiserie classic.

French-style praline truffles made with dark chocolate, egg yolks, butter, and hazelnut praline paste, rolled in grated chocolate. A classic Parisian chocolatier technique for silky, nut-scented truffles.

Three-ingredient chocolate almond filling for cakes, pastries, and tortes: melted chocolate, butter, and toasted almonds blended into a spreadable ganache-like filling.

Triple-chocolate dessert with a brownie shell, Kahlua-spiked chocolate mousse filling, and a coffee-chocolate glaze. A showpiece that needs thin slices and earns every one.

Chocolate truffle tart with raspberries: a cocoa-rich press-in pastry shell filled with silky dark chocolate ganache and topped with fresh raspberries. Elegant and simple.

Van's Faves are crisp lace-thin oat cookies scented with orange zest and finished with a chocolate drizzle. Eight ingredients, big crunch, and an old-fashioned tin-cookie feel.

Cherry-stuffed cookies wrapped in almond-vanilla dough and dipped in dark or white chocolate. A surprise maraschino cherry hidden inside each one.

Peanut butter cookies with a hidden chocolate star in the middle, rolled in powdered sugar after baking. The classic surprise cookie that hides a chocolate kiss inside.

Frozen toffee butter torte with a chocolate-ganache center, crushed Heath bar crust and crown, and whipped butter-brown sugar filling. An elegant no-bake make-ahead dessert.

Rich and flavorful, these cookies are packed with add-ins and can be made in jumbo or regular size.

Glossy chocolate icing made with butter, sugar, evaporated milk, and chocolate morsels. Boils in one minute, sets up firm on warm brownies. Just 4 ingredients.

A masterchef-level dessert: espresso chocolate mousse over creme anglaise, served in flowerpot dishes and topped with handmade chocolate flowers.

Mocha marble cake made with tofu, tahini, honey, and coffee substitute swirled with chocolate glaze on a graham cracker crust. Creamy, dairy-free, and egg-free.

New Year's Eve clock cake: three airy white cake layers stacked with silky chocolate cream filling, wrapped in rich Hungarian chocolate frosting and decorated to look like a clock striking midnight.