Chocolate

These hearty monster cookies have it all for nursing parents.

If you’re able to stop making “Arrested Development” jokes long enough, these sweet bites will be the actual talk of your next party.

Studded with chocolate and with a crisp yet yielding texture, these gluten-free chocolate chip cookies could compete with any classic version.

Don’t mess with lush chocolate cake, fudgy frosting, and crunchy toasted pecans. (Who would want to?)

This Smith Island Cake recipe boasts eight layers of yellow cake covered in a blanket of chocolate ganache.

This flourless chocolate cake is rich and densely chocolaty. It’s just the kind of low-effort, high-reward recipe we love.

This simple and easy chocolate frosting is deeply chocolaty, fluffy, and swooshable.

Buttermilk makes the chocolate cupcakes moist and fluffy, and using oil instead of butter means they keep well.

There are few Italian sweet more iconic than cannoli.

Cowboy cookies are like oatmeal ones, but packed with hearty mix-ins like coconut, pecans, and chocolate.

This nut pie recipe with chocolate chips and bourbon keeps things simple and honors the hallmarks of a classic Derby pie.

A Midwestern dessert most easily described as peanut butter Rice Krispies Treats layered with chocolate and butterscotch, scotcheroos are practically impossible to dislike.

This decorated loaf cake delivers all of the drama and trappings of a traditional bûche de Noël with only a fraction of the work.

Everyone needs an irresistibly buttery back-pocket blondie recipe in their toolbox. This is ours. 

With these tips, making glossy, beautiful chocolate is a snap.

Think of this flexible biscotti recipe as a formula for whatever flavor of crunchy cookie you’re craving.