525 coco coco recipes

These cookies with a candy bar center, from Bev Bosveld of Waupun, are packed with coconut.

These are extremely low in fat, and the taste is more slightly bitter dark chocolate than the milk-chocolate sweet of most brownies, however if you love chocolate, they're a great treat!

The hot fudge sauce, the chocolate cake and the brownie like texture will make you touch the heaven.

A super-healthy take on the original German classic - guilt free! Made with antioxidant-rich raw cacao, healthy coconut oil and cacao butter, high-protein mesquite powder, and filled with juicy wolfberries, vitamin E-rich almonds, and other delicious toppings of your choice.

Layered bar cookies with a butter shortbread base, apricot jam, and a cocoa-coconut-peanut meringue topping. Three distinct layers in every square.

These very chocolatey, chewy cookies are a favorite with my young nephews and nieces. When they come to visit we make them together and they have so much fun, just make sure you use an over-sized bowl so the ingredients don't go flying, the boys seem to be overly enthusiastic about stirring. LOL

These no-bake energy bars are delicious yet nutritious. They are easy to make, and handy to pick up.

Three layers of genoise sponge brushed with espresso-rum syrup, filled and frosted with silky mascarpone cream, dusted with cocoa, and wrapped in chocolate shavings.

A semi-homemade chocolate date quick bread using date bread mix boosted with cocoa powder, topped with a semisweet chocolate glaze and scattered with walnut and pecan halves. Moist, nutty, and ready in about an hour.

Chocolate hippenmasse: thin, crisp German pastry wafers made with almond paste, cocoa, and cinnamon. Spread paper-thin, baked until glossy, and cut or shaped while still warm.

Southern-style chocolate cola cake loaded with mini marshmallows, made in a 9x13 pan and frosted warm with peanut butter frosting. A potluck legend that feeds a crowd.

Flourless-style chocolate cake made with egg whites, cocoa, ground almonds, coffee, and orange zest. No butter, no yolks, ultralight yet intensely chocolatey. Kosher-friendly and naturally low in fat.

Double chocolate cookies made with cocoa and buttermilk for a soft, fudgy center loaded with mini chocolate chips. A quick drop cookie that bakes in under 10 minutes.

Fudgy brownies made with applesauce instead of butter, egg whites only, and just 2 tablespoons of oil. Intensely chocolatey from a half cup of cocoa powder. No icing needed.

Cocoa espresso brownie bars with walnuts, made with egg substitute and corn oil spread for a lighter take. Fudgy, coffee-spiked, and dusted with powdered sugar.

Panforte is the dense, chewy Sienese Christmas cake packed with toasted hazelnuts and almonds, dates, cherries, cocoa, and warm spices, bound by hot honey caramel. A traditional Italian holiday confection.