43 chocolate chili recipes

Not sure about chicken served with chocolate sauce, but my curiosity wanted me to make it, and I did. It actually came out delicious. All the flavours worked so well. Definitely will be making it again soon!

Cincinnati-style chili over buttered spaghetti, topped with kidney beans, chopped onions, and a mountain of shredded cheddar. The classic 5-way Skyline-style chili from Ohio.

Mexican black bean soup with a secret hit of Mexican chocolate, serrano chile, and finished with red wine vinegar and olive oil. Authentic depth from a long slow simmer.

Crockpot Cincinnati chili made with lean chicken, simmered low with chili powder, a hit of unsweetened chocolate, and warm cinnamon and cloves. The Queen City classic, set-and-forget in the slow cooker.

Competition-style beef chili with ground sirloin, mole sauce, red bell peppers, and kidney beans. The mole adds chocolate-chili depth that sets this showdown recipe apart.

Meatless chili mole with cocoa powder, two kinds of kidney beans, corn, and melted Jarlsberg cheese. The cocoa adds rich depth without any chocolate sweetness.

No-bake bonbon cookies built from crushed vanilla wafers, cocoa, walnuts, and a splash of Southern Comfort, then dipped in chocolate. Chilled overnight, served cold, gone by morning.

Soft sour cream drop cookies with a pillowy, cakey crumb, topped with a thick chocolate frosting made from melted unsweetened chocolate. Chill the dough, bake, and frost. Makes 24.

Chocolate-dipped coconut bon bons with just 5 ingredients: condensed milk, butter, powdered sugar, coconut, and semi-sweet chocolate. Chill overnight, roll, dip, done. Makes 24 pieces of homemade candy.

Chocolate silk pie with a no-bake filling whipped silky-smooth by beating eggs into creamed butter, sugar, and unsweetened chocolate. Chilled in a flaky shell and crowned with billowy whipped cream.

A no-bake rum cream pie with a buttery chocolate cookie crust, silky rum custard folded with whipped cream and fluffy egg whites, topped with grated semi-sweet chocolate. Chill overnight and slice into boozy, cloud-light wedges.