Chocolate recipes

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.

Slice-and-bake coffee cookies with brown sugar, rum extract, and nutmeg. Roll the logs in chocolate sprinkles or dip baked cookies in melted chocolate. Makes about 60.

Yum yum cake is a sour-cream chocolate layer cake with cocoa powder batter and melted chocolate chip frosting. Old-fashioned church-cookbook favorite with lunchbox simplicity.

Giant sunflower-shaped cookie with heart-shaped petals around the edge, frosted center sprinkled with chocolate chips and sunflower seeds. A showstopping party dessert you slice into wedges.

Israeli-style crustless cheesecake with tangy leben, whipped egg whites, and a vanilla pudding topping. A light, airy baked cheese cake that's tall, fluffy, and not overly sweet.

Three-layer no-bake bars with a cocoa-coconut-almond base, cherry buttercream filling studded with maraschino cherries, and a semi-sweet chocolate drizzle on top.

Peanut butter blossom kisses with sugar-rolled cookies and a chocolate kiss pressed warm into each top. The classic holiday cookie tray standard, soft and chewy with a crackly sugar crust.

Ischler cookies are an Austrian classic from Bad Ischl: ground-almond shortbread rounds sandwiched with raspberry jam and crowned with espresso-spiked chocolate icing. Spa-town pastry royalty.

No-bake peanut brownies with graham cracker crumbs, peanut butter, chopped peanuts, and a melted chocolate chip frosting. A fudgy, crunchy treat that sets in the fridge in just 1 hour.

Oatmeal carmelitas with a brown sugar oat crust, gooey caramel center, and melted chocolate chips. Classic potluck bar cookies with chewy edges and a soft, sticky middle.

Four-layer Celebration Cake stacks chocolate and banana cake with rum-spiked pineapple cream filling and rich chocolate frosting. A showstopper for birthdays and holidays.

Four-layer maple walnut torte with a chocolate-coffee-toffee filling and whipped frosting. Vintage potluck cake that splits two layers into four for impressive presentation.

A layered Italian cassata cake with orange-ricotta filling, chocolate, candied citron, and vanilla frosting topped with pistachios. A Sicilian bakery classic you can make at home.

Almond Coconut Twinkles (1953 Pillsbury Bake-Off Winner): coconut-and-almond drop cookies topped with double-boiler chocolate frosting. A senior-division winner that still delivers.

Hearty pumpernickel bread machine loaf with rye flour, cornmeal, molasses, unsweetened chocolate, caraway seeds, and mashed potato. Deeply dark German-style rye.

Golden Graham drops are no-bake cluster cookies made with melted chocolate chips, peanut butter, crunchy Golden Grahams cereal, and mini marshmallows. Stir, drop, chill, eat. Done in fifteen minutes.