Our Best Chocolate Dessert Recipes

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate! How can anyone resist? The smooth texture and the rich flavor makes this confection worthy of endless praise. The best part about chocolate is that it can be transformed into countless desserts, making it even more difficult for us chocoholics to choose our favorite way to enjoy it. Even if you're the type of person who feels a square of chocolate is enough to satisfy a fleeting craving, you'll find the following desserts to be irresistible.

This collection of recipes is our best gathering of desserts featuring the star of the show, chocolate. We have no problem praising chocolate with 28 different recipes! You'll find all the classic desserts you've known all along and a few unique versions that will make you see chocolate in a new light. Look for pies, tarts, cakes, mousses, macarons, cookies, brownies and more. All of these recipes take chocolate to the next level.

What's your favorite chocolate dessert? Leave a comment.

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Comments

[mwnyy]

08:05 AM on 02/14/2012

Yikes, my blood sugar just went up. Some look good though.

[northbronx]

11:02 AM on 02/13/2012

No Black Forest cake? Chocolate, whipped cream and cherries. Heaven on a plate.

[GraceNotes]

09:30 AM on 02/08/2012

The flourless chocolate cake may not have a leavener, but it does contain 7 eggs, separated, with the whites whipped up. I've always thought that egg whites prepared in this manner act as a natural leavener.

[comment 123]

09:16 AM on 02/08/2012

Why don't they ever include a chocolate mint recipe in these when they do them?

[GraceNotes]

09:33 AM on 02/08/2012

That is interesting, because on the other article on this page about food pairings that go so well together, chocolate and mint are on the list. Now, where are those Girl Scouts when you need them?

[robagins]

01:08 PM on 02/09/2012

Try Keebler Grasshopper fudge mint cookies. Just as good as Girl Scout cookies and you can get them all year!

[starshot49]

09:03 AM on 02/08/2012

now to go to starbucks and buy a brownie
shouldn't have looked at those pictures

[Danite545]

08:32 AM on 02/08/2012

Most of the cocoa Americans eat is produced by SLAVE LABOR in an African country called "The Ivory Coast". The people live in extreme poverty and their children are forced to work in the fields for sussitence under hazardous conditions.
Say NO to chocolate.

[breathestolive]

08:03 PM on 02/14/2012

That's not entirely true. About half the chocolate sold in the US is produced in South America.

[onwisconsin]

06:00 PM on 02/28/2012

Instead, buy fair trade chocolate. You can enjoy chocolate and not enslave others.

[climbing panda]

08:29 PM on 02/07/2012

there's cream sauce all over my monitor.

[roudy]

03:24 PM on 02/07/2012

Here's my hot chocolate mix.

A cup of unsweetened almond milk. 35 cal
1/2 tbsp Hershey's special dark powder. 6 cal
1/2 tbsp truvia sweetener. 0 cal
touch of cinnamon.

Stir in blender. heat.
If it's too thick for you, thin with a little water. I use about a 1/2 cup water most of the time.

For me it takes care of that chocolate craving, no fat no sugar no caffeine plus all the health benefits of cocoa. If the grandkids are over, shot a dab of whipped cream on it, or a couple marshmallows.

[Tolms]

01:22 PM on 02/07/2012

Ah lovely pictures

[blurredmolly]

01:26 PM on 02/07/2012

yerkindofarealdick,huh

[MochaLite]

02:14 PM on 02/07/2012

Why on earth would you want to politicize recipes?

[Flokk]

01:20 PM on 02/07/2012

I see a few worth trying. Gotta love the internet if only for the ease of finding new and interesting recipes!

[Tom Weidermeijer]

01:17 PM on 02/07/2012

Damn... I just gained weight looking at that! I love chocolate, I got some Godiva truffles for my girlfriend for Valentine's Day... so of course I had to get some for me to make sure they weren't poisionous.

One item I really like is the Cheesecake Factory's Chris' Outrageous Chocolate Cake. That is AT LEAST two servings worth... but I can down it with some milk. Stupid name... awesome dessert.

[intellifran]

01:06 PM on 02/07/2012

*drool*

[cfahooligan]

01:03 PM on 02/07/2012

Why do they always insist on showing cups spilling over? No one drinks it or eats it in the case of the Pot De Cremes, like that. It's a mess and a sloppy visual. I am only saying this because nearly every single hot chocolate image is a sloppy sticky cup flowing over.

[HatakeSC]

12:36 PM on 02/07/2012

The saliva. It pours from my mouth.