2,010 chocolate goo recipes

Melt-away butter cookies with vanilla and almond extract, pressed with a cookie gun and optionally dipped in chocolate with chopped pecans. Yields 7 dozen.

Annie's butter cookies: one buttery, rich dough that shapes into candy canes, pinwheels, spritzes, cutouts, or drop cookies. The Christmas-cookie foundation worth memorizing.

Devilish marshmallow cookies are chewy chocolate cookies topped with a melted marshmallow half and finished with a glossy chocolate frosting. Three-tier indulgence: cocoa cookie base, gooey marshmallow middle, and rich chocolate top.

Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie pie: crushed mint cookies folded into meringue with chopped nuts, baked into a chewy-crisp pie crust and topped with whipped cream and shaved chocolate.

Flourless chocolate souffle cake with a full pound of semi-sweet chocolate, brandy, and nine eggs. Dense, fudgy, and gluten-free with no flour needed at all.

A deeply rich chocolate layer cake made with unsweetened baking chocolate, brown sugar, and a cloud of beaten egg whites for lift. Topped with sliced oranges, nutmeats, and candied ginger for a vintage twist you won't find anywhere else.

No-bake Oreo ice cream cake layered with crushed Double Stuf cookies, vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream. Four ingredients, no oven required.

Cold water chocolate cake with melted unsweetened chocolate, butter, and a splash of cold water for an exceptionally tender, light crumb. A heritage two-layer cake recipe.

Mrs Fields almond crunch cookies rolled in sliced almonds and drizzled with a ganache-style chocolate glaze. Buttery, nutty, and crispy with a slow bake for maximum crunch.

An old-fashioned chocolate meringue pie with a rich cocoa pudding filling cooked from scratch and a tall, glossy meringue. Two simple tricks keep the meringue from weeping or shrinking.

Chocolate hazelnut mascarpone torte layering a coffee-deepened chocolate butter cake with framboise-spiked mascarpone cream, fresh raspberries, and caramelized hazelnuts under a glossy chocolate ganache glaze.

Brazilian jubilee cookies blend instant coffee, cinnamon, and chopped Brazil nuts into a warm-spiced dough, then crown each warm cookie with a pressed chocolate kiss melted into a glossy frosting.

Alice's chocolate cake bakes a moist two-layer cocoa cake using boiling water for extra-deep chocolate flavor, then frosts with a from-scratch buttery cocoa-powdered sugar icing. The reliable birthday cake home bakers swear by.

Fudgy brownie pie with melted chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, and chopped nuts baked in a flaky crust. Best served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Chocolate almond zucchini bread: a moist, deeply chocolate quick bread that hides grated zucchini for tenderness and toasted almonds for crunch. Two loaves from one batch.

The famous Tom Cruise Cake: a German chocolate poke cake soaked in condensed milk and butterscotch, piled with whipped cream and crushed Heath bars. Outrageously rich, dead simple, and worth every sticky, toffee-laced bite.