Chocolate Recipes

A festive red velvet cake made with German chocolate cake mix and sour cream, topped with a cooked flour frosting and handmade marzipan holly leaf decorations.

Chocolate fudge bundt cake with both melted unsweetened chocolate and cocoa, brightened with a hint of coffee. Yogurt and canola oil keep the crumb tender for a deep, dark cake without heaviness.

Cocoa brownies crowned with a glossy fudge ganache made from chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk. Two-layer chocolate dessert that yields 40 squares for crowds and bake sales.

Chunky peanut chocolate chip cookies pack chunky peanut butter, salted peanuts, and semi-sweet chocolate chips into a buttery brown sugar dough. Crisp edges, chewy middles, and a salty-sweet finish in every bite.

Coffee chocolate chip cookies with toasted almonds, made with concentrated instant coffee dissolved in hot water for deep mocha flavor in every bite. The grown-up cookie jar staple.

Classic chocolate chip cookies made with a margarine-and-shortening fat blend for crisp edges and chewy centers. Pulled slightly underdone for the softest middle. Bakes a full batch in under 30 minutes.

A deliciously light chocolate marbled angel food cake is filled with raspberry jam, and topped with coffee cream. It's sweet and rich enough to please your sweet tooth, but without too much guilt.

German chocolate cake from scratch with a cooked coconut-pecan frosting. Three layers of buttermilk chocolate cake topped with a rich, chewy caramel-style filling.

Double-baked chocolate rusks (biscotti-style) with mini chocolate chips, cocoa, and melted unsweetened chocolate. Crispy, intensely chocolatey Italian-style cookies.

The famous $250 cookie loaded with chocolate chips, grated chocolate bars, oatmeal ground to powder, and chopped nuts. A legendary urban legend cookie recipe that actually delivers.

Alice's chocolate cake bakes a moist two-layer cocoa cake using boiling water for extra-deep chocolate flavor, then frosts with a from-scratch buttery cocoa-powdered sugar icing. The reliable birthday cake home bakers swear by.

Apricot white chocolate muffins with cinnamon-poached apricots, nutmeg, and good quality white chocolate. The poaching liquid adds apricot flavor right into the batter.

Chocolate chip and currant pound cake with Cognac-soaked currants, semi-sweet chocolate, and a hint of cinnamon, baked in a Bundt pan and drizzled with a Cognac glaze.

Chocolate-raspberry spritz cookies made with melted unsweetened chocolate, raspberry preserves, and butter, pressed through a cookie press and topped with chocolate morsels.

A single-layer fudgy chocolate cake with dark corn syrup, pecans, and a shiny chocolate chip glaze. Brownie-dense and intensely chocolatey, this is the kind of cake you slice thin and savor slowly.

Chocolate amaretto cheesecake with a chocolate wafer crust and a lightened filling that blends cream cheese with cottage cheese, cocoa, almond liqueur and chocolate morsels. A small 7-inch springform pan dessert.