Chocolate fans, this is for you! Here are seven great chocolate desserts to bake and share with your nearest and dearest this holiday season. There’s a range of flavors, from gooey brownies baked on a shortbread crust to a marble chocolate orange olive oil cake big enough to serve a crowd. Happy baking!
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Chocolate dessert recipes including cookies, brownies, cakes, and tarts.
There are people for whom dessert isn’t dessert without chocolate. If you’re one of those people, this collection of spectacular chocolate desserts is for you. There’s a range of skill levels for these recipes (the brownies are easier than the mousse cakes). And these recipes include everything from milk chocolate and dark chocolate to cocoa …
This banana custard tart is what I want banana cream pie to be. I like banana flavor, and I don’t mind banana texture when I’m just eating freshly peeled fruit or when it’s baked into banana bread, but the mushy and slightly fibrous texture buried under a layer of smooth pastry cream just doesn’t do …
This simple chocolate shortbread tart crust is a favorite. It’s a variation on my favorite no-fuss easy shortbread tart crust that transformed my tart baking from high stress to no sweat. There’s no fancy equipment, no rolling anything out, no chilling. Just stir, press into the pan, and bake. This one keeps all of the …
These mini skillet cookies are what you want for dessert tonight. Or at least they’re what I want for dessert tonight. They’re like the simple, warm, melty, gooey chocolate chip skillet cookies that you find at so many restaurants, usually topped with a scoop of ice cream. But these ones are better than what you’ll …
This chocolate orange olive oil cake is a winner. It’s a spin on a cake that appeared in chocolate-guru Alice Medrich’s book Bittersweet (still totally worthwhile for anyone serious about baking with chocolate). That version, which she called her tiger cake, was a marbled olive oil cake with chocolate and white pepper. And I made …