Chocolate Recipes

Crunchy drop cookies loaded with crushed corn cereal and raisins or chocolate chips. Brown sugar keeps them chewy inside with crisp golden edges.

Cumulonimbus chocolate cake hides a secret ingredient: sauerkraut. Drained, snipped, and folded into a cocoa-and-coffee batter, it disappears completely and leaves behind a moist, fluffy chocolate cake. Frosted with a two-ingredient chocolate sour cream icing.

A buttery spice cake loaded with chocolate chips, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, baked in a Bundt pan and drizzled with a glossy chocolate glaze.

The crisp, densely chocolaty cookies, with an unusually long baking time, were an annual favorite among the 20-plus recipes that Susan Couchman of Hartland remembers were made each year by her mother, Gloria Kuchler.

Rich chocolate tube cake made with unsweetened chocolate, sour cream, and folded egg whites, topped with a warm semi-sweet chocolate frosting. Dense, moist, and intensely chocolatey.

Triple-chocolate Halloween brownies with espresso, walnuts, and chocolate chips, chilled and cut into festive shapes with cookie cutters, then frosted in orange.

Cola cake: a Southern chocolate sheet cake made with real cola, melted marshmallows, cocoa, and tangy buttermilk. Fudgy, fizzy, and a one-bowl Saturday afternoon project.

Yeast-risen dessert pizza shells made with apple juice in the dough, shaped like individual tart shells and baked crisp. Top with ricotta, fresh fruit, nuts, and a dusting of powdered sugar.

Dense chocolate tube cake loaded with melted chocolate bars plus chocolate syrup for double the flavor. Crunchy pecans throughout, no icing needed for this fudgy beauty.

Double chocolate brownies with semi-sweet chocolate in the batter and white chocolate chunks folded in, topped with a zigzag drizzle of both chocolates. Fudgy, rich, and topped with pecans.

Double chocolate pecan cookies with cocoa-rich brownie-style dough, semi-sweet chips, and toasted pecans. Soft chewy chocolate cookies that taste like brownies in cookie form.

Double chocolate chunk biscotti loaded with cocoa, white chocolate chunks, and semisweet pieces. Twice-baked Italian cookies built for serious coffee dunking and long shelf life.

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

Double chocolate dipper cookies combine cocoa dough, chocolate chips, and a white chocolate dip for tuxedo-style cookies. Bakery-level treats for cookie trays and gifting.

Double chocolate drops with cocoa powder dough and semi-sweet chocolate chips, using butter-flavor shortening for thick, chewy cookies loaded with walnuts. Big bakery-style cookies in 35 minutes.

Double chocolate granita with cocoa, semi-sweet chocolate, and warm spices. Italian-style icy frozen dessert that scrapes into chocolate snowflakes.