828 chocolate bake recipes

Hot fudge pudding cake that creates its own chocolate sauce as it bakes. A cocoa and honey batter topped with brown sugar and cocoa, then doused with hot water. Magic happens in the oven.

Hand-shaped chocolate pretzel cookies made from a cocoa butter dough, baked until set, then frosted with a simple cocoa-powdered sugar icing. A playful baking project that yields about 2 dozen.

Homemade yeasted rolls swirled with melted chocolate chips and pecans, baked upside-down on a buttery brown sugar caramel. Flip them out onto a platter and watch that sticky, glossy topping drip down the sides. Chocolate meets sticky buns.

Kentucky Derby tart with chocolate chips and coarsely chopped pecans baked in a buttery sugar filling inside a flaky pie shell. A Southern classic.

Chocolate applesauce bread baked in mason jars for a charming homemade gift. Moist cocoa cake with a hint of almond, sealed fresh right from the oven.

Waffle iron drop cookies: a chocolate cocoa cookie dough baked in 2 to 3 minutes in a waffle iron instead of an oven. Crisp, patterned, and ready faster than preheating.

Cola chocolate cake with marshmallows baked in, topped with a broiled peanut butter and brown sugar frosting loaded with chopped peanuts. A true Southern classic.

Fudgy no-bake cookies with cocoa, peanut butter, and oats boiled on the stovetop and dropped onto wax paper. Chocolate peanut butter treats with no oven needed.

Coconut Joys are no-bake coconut balls made with butter, powdered sugar, and shredded coconut, filled with melted dark chocolate. Four ingredients, no oven, dangerously addictive.

Four-in-one oatmeal cookie base that yields 4 different cookies by adding raisins, peanuts, chocolate chips, or coconut. One dough, four flavors, great for batch baking.

Hot fudge cake that bakes its own chocolate sauce underneath. A cocoa batter with a sugar-cocoa-water mixture poured on top creates a self-saucing pudding cake in 40 minutes.

Chocolate buttermilk sheet cake with rich cocoa icing poured on while still hot. A classic potluck crowd-pleaser that bakes in under 25 minutes and feeds a big group.

Chewy Rolo cookie bars: a yellow cake mix base studded with halved Rolo candies that melt into rivers of chocolate caramel. Five-ingredient bake-sale magic.

Baked whole apples glazed in cinnamon-citrus syrup, opened like flower petals, and topped with vanilla ice cream and homemade chocolate liqueur sauce.

Layered no-bake candy with a butterscotch-walnut bottom, mini marshmallow middle, and a chocolate chip topping. Make-ahead, sliceable, and seriously sweet.

A fudgy chocolate brownie cake steamed in a pot-within-a-pot using shelf-stable ingredients like dried eggs and buttermilk powder. Ideal for camping, off-grid baking, or when you don't have an oven.