Chocolate recipes

Chewy brown sugar cookies loaded with green candy-coated chocolate pieces. A fun, festive cookie for St. Patrick's Day baking that makes 3 dozen in just 30 minutes.

Fudge brownie pie baked crustless in a pie pan with unsweetened chocolate, butter, and pecans. Dense, fudgy, and rich with just six main ingredients.

Graham wafer pie with a buttery crumb crust and old-fashioned stovetop custard filling made from scratch with egg yolks, cornstarch, and vanilla. Ready in 30 minutes plus chilling time.

Ghost-shaped pumpkin oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, decorated with white royal icing. A fun Halloween baking project with warm cinnamon-spiced flavor.

Brown sugar fudge cooked to the soft-ball stage with molasses, heavy cream, and a touch of unsweetened chocolate. Old-fashioned candy-thermometer method for a creamy, never-grainy result that sets up firm and slices clean.

Cream puff dessert with a baked pâte à choux crust, vanilla pudding and cream cheese filling, topped with Cool Whip and chocolate drizzle. This layered dessert feeds a crowd with bakery-style flair.

Peanut butter cup cookies: soft peanut butter cookie dough baked in mini muffin tins, with a whole mini peanut butter cup pressed into each one straight out of the oven. A melt-in-the-middle Christmas favorite.

Russian-style black bread with rye flour, dark molasses, unsweetened chocolate, and bran. A dense, dark-crumbed yeast loaf for hearty sandwiches and slathering with butter. Makes two loaves.

Marble cheesecake swirls dark chocolate batter through a classic vanilla cream cheese filling on a graham cracker crust. A two-tone showstopper baked in a springform pan.

Fudgy cocoa brownies with a hidden layer of chocolate mint patties baked right inside. Rich, minty, and makes a big batch of 36 squares from a 9x13 pan.

Butterfinger poke cake: warm chocolate cake riddled with holes and soaked in caramel and sweetened condensed milk, then chilled and topped with whipped topping and crushed Butterfingers.

White Christmas Cookies with Nut and Raisin recipe

White chocolate orange dream cookies are buttery drop cookies studded with white chips and brightened with fresh orange zest. Makes 2 dozen creamsicle-flavored cookies.

Peanuts N Candy Halloween cake, a semi-homemade yellow cake mix studded with roasted peanuts, frosted with peanut butter buttercream, and topped with chopped Butterfinger and candy corn. A festive fall party dessert.

A marbled vanilla cake layered with chocolate sauce and chopped walnuts, baked in a ring pan and served warm with a dusting of powdered sugar. Feeds 4 to 6 in under an hour.

These no-bake energy bars are delicious yet nutritious. They are easy to make, and handy to pick up.