592 semisweet chocolate recipes

Treat your kids with these irresistable cookies that are perfect for their lunchboxes or for a tasty dessert after dinner.

Double chocolate granita with cocoa, semi-sweet chocolate, and warm spices. Italian-style icy frozen dessert that scrapes into chocolate snowflakes.

Twice-baked Jewish cookies studded with melty semi-sweet chocolate chips that turn crispy on the outside and stay tender inside. Simple ingredients make 2 dozen crunchy biscotti-style treats.

This is a wonderful, dense, almost brownie-like cake.

Baci di Dama are Italian "lady's kisses": delicate ground almond cookies with candied orange peel, sandwiched together with melted chocolate. Gluten-light, flourless-forward, and elegant enough for gifting.

Pajas are flourless coconut cookies loaded with butter-toasted pecans, dried apricots, and chopped chocolate, bound with sweetened condensed milk. No eggs, no flour, all flavor.

Well-drained maraschino cherries may be substituted for candied cherries.

No-cook snack mix with popcorn, Golden Grahams, marshmallows, chocolate pieces, peanuts, and raisins. Makes 12 cups of sweet, salty, crunchy trail mix in about 10 minutes.

Velvety chocolate mousse laced with Kahlua, lightened with beaten egg whites and whipped cream. Just 6 ingredients and a few hours in the fridge for a stunning French-style dessert.

Four-ingredient brownies made with graham cracker crumbs, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, and walnuts. No eggs, no butter, just mix and bake.

Chocolate bourbon balls are no-bake holiday treats made with crushed vanilla wafers, walnuts, honey-sweetened melted chocolate, and a splash of bourbon. A Southern Kentucky tradition.

Peppermint ice cream pie with creme de menthe, semi-sweet chocolate, and crushed candy in a graham cracker crust. A frozen mint-chocolate dessert that sets in 5 hours.

A no-cook icebox pudding with whipped cream, malted milk powder, grated chocolate, and pumpernickel bread crumbs. Chill overnight and serve this retro gem straight from the fridge.

Flourless chocolate roulade filled with vanilla whipped cream and dusted with cocoa. Eight eggs, two kinds of chocolate, and zero flour make this roll intensely rich and tender.

Two-layer chocolate cheesecake with a dark chocolate base and creamy vanilla top in a chocolate cookie crust. The Kraft Philly classic with no springform required.

Double chocolate layer cheesecake: a chocolate cream cheese layer on the bottom and a vanilla cream cheese layer on top, all in a chocolate cookie crust.