Recipe Sifter

Enid's classic brownies made with melted unsweetened baking chocolate, butter, and six eggs baked in a sheet pan. Family-recipe square that yields 36 dense, fudgy bars.

Creamy cheesecake bars with fresh raspberries and a chocolate crust.

Adapted this recipe from Foodnetwork magazine, I made a few changes to make it a little healthier but still taste decadently delicious.

Made with white whole wheat flour, butter and olive oil, and chocolate chips. This whole wheat banana and chocolate chip bread is super buttery, moist, and packed with banana flavor. You can also find chunks of chocolate in every bite.

Greek baklava with buttery cookie dough rolled around spiced nuts and phyllo, soaked in honey-lemon syrup for layers of crisp pastry and rich almond filling.

Dark chocolate sea salt cookies, intensely cocoa-rich slice-and-bake sables studded with bittersweet chocolate and flecked with fleur de sel. Slightly underbaked for a soft, fudgy center and a salty-sweet finish.

[Note: Bobby Flay, chef of NYC's Mesa Grill, prepared this dessert for a Meals on Wheels benefit meal at the Frontera Grill in Chicago

Flourless-style chocolate decadence cake with bittersweet and unsweetened chocolate, espresso, and whipped egg whites. Dense, fudgy, and dusted with powdered sugar through a stencil.

Crisp oatmeal cookies with brown sugar, walnuts pressed into the tops, and a thin, crunchy texture that spreads to 4 inches wide. Snappy edges with a buttery oat flavor.

A New Orleans-style charlotte: chocolate sponge rolled with almond paste, sliced and pressed into a springform, filled with amaretto-soaked chocolate mousse. A Mardi Gras showstopper.

Stove-top candied sweet potatoes simmered in brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and lemon. No oven needed, no marshmallows in sight, perfect for crowded Thanksgiving stoves.

Super chunky cookies pack four kinds of chocolate plus pecans and English toffee bits into a brown sugar dough. Bakery-style chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges and chewy centers.

Intensely chocolate layer cake with cocoa filling and dark chocolate frosting, inspired by Brooklyn's famous blackout cake. Four layers of moist cake with fudgy frosting.

Chunks of apples and buttermilk make these cupcakes incredibly moist and delicious. Use most whole wheat flour, some vegetable oil and some butter to make these cupcakes a lot healthier without losing any great flavor and texture.

Six layers of indulgence: buttery shortbread crust, from-scratch vanilla pudding, cream cheese mousse, crushed pineapple, caramel drizzle, whipped cream, and a chocolate glaze zigzag on top.

Three layers of deep chocolate cake get brushed with vanilla sugar glaze while hot, then stacked with mocha buttercream icing spiked with coffee and cocoa.