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Slice and Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

A stack of chocolate cookies with edges coated in multicolored sprinkles.Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are good, but what if they were slice and bake chocolate peanut butter cookies so you don’t have to scoop or roll? These are soft cookies with tons of both chocolate and peanut butter flavor, perfect all year or for the holidays with colorful sprinkles. Why You’ll Love These Cookies I…

Mini Oreo Cheesecake Recipe

Mini Oreo cheesecakes baked in a mini muffin tin, with a pressed Oreo crust and chopped Oreos in the creamy filling. One batch makes 48, so double the whipped cream to give every bite a swirl and a mini Oreo.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have never loved pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and I will tell you why: too much spice, and too much cakey-y fluff. I want tender, FUDGY pumpkin cookies. I’ve found the 10-minute secret to getting chewy, tender cookies with a delightfully crisp edge, that DON’T taste like muffin tops. What’s the most 2026 thing that’s…

Mini Chocolate Chess Pies

A white plate holding five small, fluted pastries filled with a dark, textured chocolate or poppy seed filling.Mini Chocolate Chess Pies are a bite size version of the classic, gooey, rich chocolate pie you’re familiar with. They have buttery crusts and a brownie-like filling and they’re baked in a mini muffin pan so you get a perfect mini pie that’s easier to serve and eat. Mini Pies are one of my favorite…

Candy Cane Pie

A chilled Candy Cane Pie with an Oreo crust, creamy peppermint filling, and white chocolate whipped topping for the Christmas dessert table.

Easy Chocolate Fudge Recipe

stack of fudge on white plateThis Easy Chocolate Fudge is actually a cooked fudge, like you get at an actual candy shop: it’s rich and practically melts in your mouth. Cooked fudge can be intimidating, but don’t worry, this one is actually easy and practically no-fail. Plus the secret ingredient will blow your mind! Old Fashioned Chocolate Fudge I’ve been…

Double Chocolate Mint Cookies

Overhead view of double chocolate mint cookies with andes mints scattered around cookiesThese Double Chocolate Mint Cookies are rich, soft chocolate cookies loaded with chocolate chips and Andes mint pieces. The cookies are one of my favorites, made with both melted chocolate and cocoa powder and you can even freeze them! They’re the perfect Christmas cookie for platters, exchanges, or just because you love chocolate and mint…

Strawberry Galette

This strawberry chocolate frangipane galette layers juicy strawberries over a rich almond-chocolate filling in a crisp semolina crust.

Gingerbread Cookie Bars

Three gingerbread cookie bars decorated for the holidays and stacked on top of eachotherGingerbread Bars are an easy way to make a classic holiday cookie: Soft gingerbread is baked in a pan and then sliced into bars. These are like gingerbread blondies or gingerbread cookie bars but without the hassle of rolling and cutting! Why You’ll Love This Recipe Hands down, these bars are my favorite Gingerbread Cookie…

Chocolate Almond Cake

Meet my new favorite chocolate cake recipe! It’s rich, chocolatey and indulgent, and secretly somewhat wholesome. Almond flour forms the base, which is why this cake is wonderfully tender and well-suited for gluten-free eaters. The cocoa powder largely covers up the almond flavor, though. It’s simply delicious. This cake is plenty sweet but not too…

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Banana Bread Bars with Fudge Buttercream

I honestly woke up this morning craving these particular bars, even though I had never made them. I set off to my kitchen and must admit they are the best thing I have made in quite awhile; the moist banana base and rich chocolate buttercream paired pe…

Whole Wheat Sweet Potato Brownies

Rich, fudgy brownies made healthier with sweet potato and whole wheat flour. You’d never believe there’s no butter, oil, white or brown sugar in them. Pure Brownie Bliss Whether it’s dessert, a mid-day snack or even a special treat with breakfast or brunch, these Whole Wheat Sweet Potato Brownies are pure bliss. Mashed sweet potato…

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Earthquake Cake

This Earthquake Cake is my latest obsession! A tender, gooey chocolate cake is layered with toastier-than-toasted coconut flakes, chopped pecans, and chocolate chips. But the real clincher is the cream cheese frosting that is baked WITH the cake, which seeps into the center and also covers the top to form a crackly layer. It really…

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecakes

Close-up of several Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecakes topped with chocolate chips and cookie crumbles, finished with a decorative chocolate drizzle, arranged on a glass stand.These Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecakes combine two of my favorite desserts in one: a crunchy chocolate chip cookie crust topped with a creamy chocolate chip cheesecake! Dessert mashups are one of my favorite things to create (I wrote a whole cookbook on them!) and cheesecake plus chocolate chip cookies is the best combo. I’ve been…

Flourless Pumpkin Brownies

Fudgy Flourless Pumpkin Brownies for Fall If you love a fudgy brownie AND pumpkin season, you need to make these Flourless Pumpkin Brownies. They have that rich, chocolatey brownie flavor, with pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice adding a little something ex…

Pan-Banging Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

It has been ten years since the original pan-banging chocolate chip cookie recipe was published in my Vanilla Bean Baking Book , and I am floored that so many of you are still making them! Bakers tapping their cookie pans in the oven isn’t new, of cour…

Pecan Pie Brownies

Close-up of homemade pecan pie brownies stacked on top of each other, showing a crumbly, golden-brown texture with visible pecan pieces inside.Pecan Pie Brownies combine rich, fudgy brownies with a gooey pecan pie topping so you get brownies and pecan pie in every bite! Dessert mashups are kind of my thing, and this is one of those combinations that just makes sense: soft chocolate brownie underneath, sticky pecan pie filling on top, and tons of crunchy…

Snowmen Truffles

Snowmen truffles are no-bake, with a mini Oreo and marshmallow top hat, an orange candy nose and piped chocolate buttons. Each snowman is one serving.

Miso walnut chocolate chip cookies

There are two things I need to tell you about these cookies. One is that they’re crazy-good. And the other is that they’re huge. The recipe makes just a five cookies but each one is so packed with flavor, that you’ll be glad you can have one all to yourself. Your other four friends of guests will be delighted as well. (But they’re quite generous,…

Homemade German Chocolate Cake Recipe

Traditional German chocolate cake recipe with dark chocolate cake, old fashioned coconut pecan frosting and silky chocolate buttercream. Make this cake as a sheet cake or as a show-stopping 3-layer cake. This German chocolate cake is an extra chocolate…

Chocolate olive oil spread

This recipe, from The Great Book of Chocolate, is one of my favorite recipes in the book. It’s a deep-dark chocolate spread that’s just as welcome on the breakfast table with warm croissants or toast, as it is as an afternoon snack, swiped on a slice of baguette. The recipe comes from my friend Deb Perelman, of Smitten Kitchen, who came to Paris and made…

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