Chocolate recipes

Honey-lavender biscotti with orange zest and dried lavender blossoms baked into a crisp, twice-baked Italian cookie. Fragrant, floral, and built for dipping.

A rich, fudgy chocolate sheet cake with sour cream baked in a jelly roll pan and slathered with a creamy peanut butter chip frosting. Feeds a crowd and travels like a dream.

Passover cheesecake with a chocolate macaroon crust, creamy lemon-brightened filling studded with Brazil nuts, and a vanilla sour cream glaze. Flourless and fully kosher for the holiday table.

One silky custard base, five showstopping cream pies. This stovetop filling comes together in minutes with pantry staples, then transforms into banana, butterscotch, coconut, or chocolate cream pie with simple swaps.

Teddy bear shaped oatmeal cookies decorated with icing faces and candy noses. A fun baking project kids love, made with brown sugar, oats, and real butter.

Cocoa-spice snackin' cake mixes cocoa, applesauce, and warm cinnamon-nutmeg into a tender square pan cake. Easy weekday baking with a moist crumb and chocolate-spice depth.

Peanut butter brownies with a marbled chocolate and peanut butter swirl. One batter split in two, cocoa stirred into half, layered for a Reese's-inspired treat.

Classic red velvet cake transformed into a donut, glazed with a sweet and slightly tangy icing.

Individual almond cream tarts: buttery pastry shells filled with almond-scented vanilla cream and topped with fresh kiwi, strawberries, grapes, and a glossy apple jelly glaze. A classic French patisserie dessert made home-doable.

Sweet-and-salty Chex mix: chocolate cereal coated in crackly caramel, then piled with peanut butter cups, marshmallows, a triple chocolate drizzle, and flaky salt. A no-bake, gift-worthy snack.

Christmas memory fruitcake steams then bakes a bourbon-soaked, dense old-fashioned fruitcake loaded with Brazil nuts, raisins, candied fruit, figs, and warming spices. Heirloom holiday recipe.

Frozen cookie sandwiches with chocolate chip cookies, whipped topping, mini marshmallows, and peanut butter chips. Easy no-churn summer treat using refrigerated cookie dough.

Raspberry mousse cheesecake copycat from Olive Garden layers a chocolate cookie crust, baked cream cheese filling, and a pink raspberry-whipped cream mousse top. The chain's classic dessert decoded for home.

Old-fashioned sour cream drop cookies that bake up soft and pillowy. Versatile enough for chocolate chips, raisins, nuts, or rolled and cut into shapes.

Silky cocoa creme is a light chocolate mousse made with ricotta, cocoa powder, and whipped topping, set with gelatin. A low-fat molded dessert served with strawberries.

Four-in-one oatmeal cookie base that yields 4 different cookies by adding raisins, peanuts, chocolate chips, or coconut. One dough, four flavors, great for batch baking.