Chocolate

Creamy butterscotch pudding, chocolate ganache, and a speculoos cookie crust join forces to create our ideal winter dessert.

This eggless pudding gets extra chocolateness by using cocoa powder and melted bittersweet chocolate.

They look like truffles, but they're smoother, chewier, and more voluptuous.

This lightly spiced chocolate cake from Yossy Arefi's book Snacking Cakes is packed with pumpkin purée and features spices often found in Mexican chocolate. If you choose to use it, the pinch of cayenne adds a pleasing bit of warmth. 

Not to be confused with wafer-thin waffled pizzelles, this rich brownie-like cookie packed with warm spices is exactly the opposite.

A salty-umami chocolate chip cookie from chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Tiana Gee to add to the Great Chocolate Chip Cookie canon.

And you should start with ’57 Chocolate.

This subtly minty chocolate ice cream can also be made with chopped-up Thin Mints or Andes Mints.

And she wants you to, too.

These cookies are inspired by the most trusted human energy source: trail mix. They’re crammed with toasted nuts, dried fruit, hearty oats, and chocolate.

We took millionaire bars—shortbread plus caramel plus chocolate—and gave them an upgrade (hence, billions) with sesame seeds and tahini. The shortbread is tender, the filling is gooey, and the chocolate ties it all together.

It’s less effective than straight-up bee pollen but infinitely more delicious. 

We're taking chocolate to the chopping block.

When’s the last time a chocolate chip cookie surprised you? This one, which gets its speckled look, earthy, nutty flavor, and chewy middle from buckwheat flour, might just become your new favorite.

Who will get the dreaded raspberry star???

Assembling these dessert cups in muffin tin liners (just the liners!) helps speed up the process and ensure the sticky date caramel doesn’t get out of hand.

Send off 2019 in the right way. With lots of sugar.

Here's the cookie to bake when you want to impress your friends at the cookie swap but you're not about to spend hours cutting out reindeers and piping royal icing. 

The cool kids from Elena in Montreal know how to hunker down and cook.

A deconstructed Mexican mole visually inspired by the Mesoamerican pyramids with stained-glass-like bits of dried fruit. NBD.

This deceptively simple chocolate tart has a press-in nut crust that just so happens to be gluten-free.

A dazzling chocolate pudding pie cloaked in voluminous whipped cream.

These irresistible cookies from Ochre Bakery in Detroit have stripes of melted chocolate and crunchy bites of hazelnut and raw sugar. Yes, you need another chocolate chip cookie.

There's a secret ingredient that helps replace the dairy in this vegan, fudgelike treat. Just kidding; it's not a secret...it's avocado!