454 cocoa powder recipes

Raspberry chocolate sauce made with Dutch-process cocoa, heavy cream, butter, and pureed raspberries. Boiled 8 minutes to a glossy, pourable consistency. Keeps a month in the fridge.

Crazy chocolate cake made with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Vinegar and baking soda create the lift in this one-bowl Depression-era recipe that bakes up surprisingly moist and rich.

Eggless cocoa cake made with no butter, milk, or eggs. A depression-era style chocolate cake using vinegar and baking soda for lift, baked in a tube pan. Naturally vegan.

Buttery chocolate shortbread with cocoa, melted unsweetened chocolate, and chopped walnuts baked low and slow into crisp, snappy wedges with a sugar-sprinkled top.

Mocha nut butter balls: tender, snowball-style shortbread cookies flavored with cocoa and instant coffee, packed with toasted walnuts or pecans, rolled in sugar.

Clubwoman's Cake, a Depression-era egg-free and dairy-free chocolate cake made with vinegar and oil. A pantry-staples cake that mixes in one bowl with a fork and bakes up moist in 30 minutes.

Haselnussmakronen, traditional German hazelnut macaroons: a cocoa meringue folded with crushed hazelnuts and lemon zest, baked low into chewy, flourless cookies. A naturally gluten-free holiday treat.

Double chocolate walnut biscotti with cocoa powder and semi-sweet chocolate chips baked twice for a crisp, crunchy cookie. Dusted with powdered sugar and perfect for dunking in coffee.

Mocha pecan balls rolled in powdered sugar, made with espresso, cocoa powder, butter, and chopped pecans. A coffee-chocolate twist on classic snowball cookies.

Chocolate cake truffles made from crumbled devil's food cake mixed with cocoa butter, hazelnuts, and Baileys, then dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. Rich, boozy, and no-bake to assemble.

Classic whoopie pies with soft chocolate cake rounds sandwiched around a fluffy marshmallow cream filling. A New England bakery favorite made from scratch at home.

No-bake chocolate cheesecake with a chocolate-cocoa biscuit crust, a cloud-light filling of bittersweet chocolate, whipped cream, and folded egg whites, crowned with toasted pecans.

Bread machine pumpernickel for the Zojirushi with rye flour, cocoa, molasses, and a touch of coffee. Dark, dense rye bread done hands-off in the breadmaker.

Double chocolate cake doughnuts made from scratch with unsweetened chocolate and buttermilk, then fried and topped with cocoa icing. Rich, cakey, and worth the overnight chill.

Chocolate cocoa cookies with a Rolo candy hidden inside, topped with finely ground nuts. Bite through the crackled shell to hit molten caramel.

This egg-free, dairy-free chocolate cake mixes right in the pan. Cocoa, coffee, and vinegar create a rich, moist crumb topped with cinnamon sugar. No bowls to wash, no excuses not to bake.