504 chocolate food recipes

Orange shortbread hearts dipped in bittersweet chocolate. Buttery, citrus-scented cut-out cookies with a glossy chocolate half-dip for Valentine's Day or any occasion.

Four-layer double-chocolate torte with unsweetened chocolate cake, chocolate filling, and whipped cream frosting in alternating layers. A tall, impressive celebration cake with intense chocolate flavor and a light cream finish.

Bewitching cookies with orange zest, orange juice, buttermilk, and chocolate chips in a soft brown sugar drop cookie. A citrus-chocolate combination that's hard to resist.

Chocolate walnut bread made with frozen bread dough filled with chopped semi-sweet chocolate and walnuts, brushed with honey. A simple stuffed loaf with melty chocolate pockets.

Hazelnut spritz cookies pressed into delicate rings, baked until pale gold, and dipped in dark chocolate. A European-style holiday cookie for cookie trays and gift tins.

Old Dominion chocolate pie layers a buttery hand-cut crust with rich unsweetened chocolate custard, cooked low on the stovetop until thick and glossy. A Virginia classic with deep cocoa flavor.

Chocolate chip pan cookies bake the classic Toll House dough as one giant sheet, then cut into 24 squares. All the flavor of a chocolate chip cookie with none of the scooping, rotating or batch-baking.

Malted milk cookies fold chopped malted milk balls and unsweetened chocolate into a brown-sugar drop cookie for a chocolate cookie with crunchy candy pockets. A diner-style malt shop treat.

Double chocolate slice-and-bake refrigerator cookies with melted chocolate, mini chips, and a hint of cinnamon. Make-ahead dough freezes for 2 months.

Quick toffee chocolate cake assembled from store-bought pound cake split and filled with chocolate-sour cream frosting and crushed English toffee. Ready in 25 minutes.

Mississippi mud poke cake with German chocolate cake mix, sweetened condensed milk, caramel sauce, Cool Whip, and crushed Heath bars. Easy make-ahead dessert that chills overnight.

Chocolate malted pie with a graham cracker crust, malted milk pudding filling, fresh whipped cream, and chopped Whoppers candies. A diner-style chocolate cream pie with old-school soda fountain flavor.

Chocolate drop cookies with a hidden chunk of white chocolate baked into the center. No flour, no eggs: melted chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk and nuts make the entire dough. Fudgy, dense, surprise inside.

Chocolate sour cream cake built on melted unsweetened chocolate, brown sugar, and a finishing splash of boiling water that blooms the cocoa into deep, fudgy darkness. Tender, moist, old-school layer cake at its honest best.

Parisian Sophisticates: almond-vanilla buttermilk cupcakes hollowed out and filled with airy chocolate truffle mousse, topped with toasted cake crumbs. Vintage tea-party fancy.

Three-ingredient triple fudge brownies built on chocolate pudding mix, chocolate cake mix, and semi-sweet chips. Dense, fudgy, and fast. The semi-homemade trick that fooled every PTA bake sale.