Chocolate

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

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

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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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!

Pure homemade birthday love. If you've got a bowl, a cheap hand mixer, and a couple of measuring cups, you can make this rich, chocolatey cake.

This (gluten-free!) flourless chocolate cake is decadent, rich, and super-easy to make.

Earthy-sweet beet purée gives this gluten-free chocolate cake a beautiful red velvet hue.

Did we lose you with the miso? Don't go!

This no-bake pie is incredibly easy to make and will keep for over a week in the freezer.

We can't stop staring at the layers of bittersweet ganache and buttery caramel.

Our step-by-step guide to making a three-course meal that might get you off Tinder for good.

Faster than a soufflé, easier than a molten chocolate cake, and more delicious than both.

This recipe as a cross between your very favorite banana bread and a chocolaty blackout cake.