Chocolate Recipes

Chocolate terrine with cream cheese, milk chocolate, and a hint of amaretto. No baking required. Just chill, slice, and serve this silky make-ahead dessert for 10.

Chocolate maple cake with unsweetened chocolate, folded egg whites, and a maple walnut buttercream frosting. Split into four layers for an impressive celebration cake.

No-bake Oreo ice cream cake layered with crushed Double Stuf cookies, vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream. Four ingredients, no oven required.

Christmas shortbread with just five ingredients: butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, and salt. Shape as bars or wedges, plus four built-in variations including chocolate chip and lemon.

German sour cherry chocolate cake: a dense, fudgy chocolate cake crowned with tart pitted cherries that sink into the batter as it bakes. The sharp cherries cut the rich dark chocolate beautifully.

Easy peppermint fudge squares made with chocolate chips, miniature marshmallows and mint extract on an evaporated milk base. No candy thermometer needed; ready to chill in 30 minutes. Yields 2 pounds of fudge.

Rich mahogany chocolate pound cake with cocoa, sour cream, and both white and brown sugar, baked in a bundt pan. Dense, moist, and deeply chocolatey with an optional quick chocolate sauce.

Mini florentines, lacy caramel cookies studded with hazelnuts, cherries, and candied peel, baked thin and crisp, then coated underneath with dark and white chocolate combed into the classic wavy pattern.

Four-ingredient low-calorie cookies made with banana, oats, peanut butter, and baking powder. No flour, no sugar, no eggs, no butter. Just mash, mix, and bake.

Mint Surprise Cookies hide a melty chocolate mint wafer inside soft brown-sugar dough, each one crowned with a toasted walnut. Chill the dough so it seals the surprise neatly before baking.

Lincoln log cookies shaped from cocoa-chocolate chip dough into two-inch logs, then drizzled with white and chocolate icing stripes. A fun, chocolatey bake for kids and adults.

Phipps famous shortbread made with broiler-roasted flour, rice flour, a full pound of butter, and chunked milk chocolate. Toasted flour gives it a deep, nutty flavor.

Elizabeth David's Gateau Au Chocolat Et Aux Amandes recipe

Kahlua chocolate nut squares pack coffee liqueur into a brown sugar bar studded with semi-sweet chocolate and walnuts, then crowned with browned butter Kahlua icing for a grown-up bake sale showstopper.

Smith College fudge with molasses, brown sugar, and unsweetened chocolate cooked to soft-ball stage. The classic 1900s women's college recipe with deep, rich flavor.

Mrs Fields' applesauce oatmeal cookies loaded with chocolate chips, raisins, and walnuts. Soft, chewy, and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg for a bakery-style cookie.