Dessert, Chocolate Recipes

Moist chocolate banana cake made without eggs, loaded with cocoa, chocolate chips, and crunchy pecans. Buttermilk and ripe bananas keep it fudgy while brown sugar adds deep caramel sweetness.

Spiced pumpkin cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ginger. Soft drop cookies topped with cinnamon sugar baked in 15 minutes.

Magic cookie bars layered with graham cracker crumbs, walnuts, chocolate chips, flaked coconut, and sweetened condensed milk. Six ingredients, no mixing, and no special skills for a gooey, chewy bar cookie.

Light-as-air meringue cookies studded with mini chocolate chips. Just five ingredients, virtually fat-free, and they melt on your tongue. Makes 36 cookies.

Real French chocolate mousse made with semisweet chocolate, egg yolks, butter, cognac, and a splash of strong coffee, lightened with whipped egg whites and unmolded for a classic bistro presentation.

Cream puff cake bakes a sheet of pate a choux as the base, then layers vanilla pudding cream cheese filling, whipped cream, and chocolate syrup on top. A pan-sized riff on the classic eclair.

Fudge Yummies are layered chocolate brownie bars with a cream cheese filling, melted marshmallow top, and swirled chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Walnut snowball cookies rolled in powdered sugar then drizzled with melted chocolate. Buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread crescents made with just six ingredients.

Heart shaped cookie bakes a giant chocolate chip cookie in a 9-inch heart pan, then crowns it with melted chocolate frosting. Edible Valentine's gift you frost and decorate at home.

Easy elephant ears cookies (palmiers) bake from rolled puff pastry, sugar, and egg wash into crisp golden hearts, dipped in melted chocolate. Four-ingredient bakery-style treats ready in 40 minutes.

Layers of graham cracker crust, sweet cream cheese filling, chocolate-butterscotch pudding, and fluffy whipped topping. No oven needed for this retro icebox pie that feeds a crowd.

Peanut butter cheesecake squares on a graham cracker crust with chopped peanuts and a chocolate drizzle. A baked bar-style cheesecake thats easy to slice and share.

Annie's butter cookies: one buttery, rich dough that shapes into candy canes, pinwheels, spritzes, cutouts, or drop cookies. The Christmas-cookie foundation worth memorizing.

Chocolate cherry cream pie layers a graham cracker crust, chocolate pudding, whipped topping, and ruby cherry pie filling. Six ingredients, two hours of chill time, no oven beyond a quick crust bake.

Creamy banana cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust, studded with chopped walnuts and drizzled with melted milk chocolate. A banana split in cheesecake form. Serves 10.

Fudgy chocolate cupcakes with a cream cheese and chocolate chip filling, topped with sugared chopped almonds. The eggless cocoa batter stays moist while the almond crunch on top adds a nutty, caramelized bite.