Share your favorite chocolate dessert recipe

Susie2005

I need to bake something for a party this weekend.  I'm a decent baker but I tend to do the same tried and true things repeatedly.  So, I'm looking for new inspiration. I'm the resident baker in our group of friends so everyone always expects that I'll bring something good.  Something all or at least partly chocolate has been requested by the guest of honor.

Thanks! 

j-w

I have a great chocolate mousse recipe with coffee liquor and then I like to sprinkle candied pretzels on the top.  If there will be kids there too, then I make them a home made chocolate pudding with the pretzels on top.  But, that's not really baking, so may not be what you are looking for...

peekaboo716

Totally a cheater recipe Paula Deen's Peanut Butter Brownie Cupcakes.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/peanut-butter-brownie-cupcakes-recipe/index.html

SO easy and very tasty.

 

PiperBride

Totally worth the 10 zillion calories per slice:

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2006/10/deep_dark_chocolate_cheesecake

 

 

jettagurl

This is LOADED with chocolate, but it's spectacular.  

Death By Chocolate

Make Devils food cake (or any choc cake, really) as per box directions, or make from scratch (9x13 cake). Let cool, then crumble entire cake. 

1 pkg. choc pudding prepared as directed (I use the big box of Jell-O pudding) 

1 lg. container of cool whip

2 bags of Heath bar baking peices or 6 bars frozen then crushed.

 In trifle or other large glass bowl, layer: cake-pudding-cool whip-toffee bits.  Then repeat....so use 1/2 of each, then repeat with the other 1/2 of each.  

Refrigerate until serving.  Yummy!

 

 

AnnapolisLari

Take your box of Hershey's Cocoa. Turn it around. Make the Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Cake and frosting.

It's my secret weapon cake. Everyone loves it and I don't give up the recipe to anyone except the gals on the Parenting board. Not many of them are likely to be at the same parties that I am. :-)

AggieCouple

Here is my favorite chocolate dessert, mini chocolate lava cakes.  You can actually skip the the part about the center, just refrigerate the cake at least 6 hours and pop in right in the oven, and it still creates a molten center.  Doing the center does create an extra chocolate-y lava, though. 

 The recipe makes 6 cakes, but it's easily doubled/tripled.  I bake mine in ramekins, but you can also do a muffin tin.  Just don't bake it until you get there.  I like to served with whipped cream and strawberries.

Cake

 

7 ounce bar dark semi-sweet chocolat

8 tbsp. butter

1 tsp. vanilla extract

3 eggs, separated, room temperature

1/3 cup sifted flower

1/8 tsp. salt

1/8 tsp. cream of tarter

1/4 cup sugar

 

 

Center

2 ounces dark semi-sweet chocolate

1.5 ounces heavy cream

1 tsp. butter

 

Batter

 

Chop the dark semi-sweet chocolate intopieces.  Place into a metal bowl,add butter.  Melt over a simmeringwaterbath.  Remove from heat.

Add vanilla extract and egg yolks.  Whisk together until chocolate mixtureis smooth. 

Add well sifted cake flour, and gentlyincorporated into the above chocolate mixture.

Place the egg whites into a clean metalbowl, add salt and cream of tartar. Using a whisk, whip egg whites until soft peaks form.  Continue to whisk while slowly sprinklingin the sugar.

Using a rubber spatula, carefully fold1/3rd of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture.  Then fold-in another 1/3rd of the egg whites.  Then fold-in the last 1/3rd of the eggwhites. 

Deposit the batter into muffin tins - fill 3/4 full.  Ramekins can also be used simply butter insides and dustwith cocoa powder. 

Push a Chocolate Lava Center into thecenter of each cake batter.  

Bake at 375F degrees for 15 minutes.  Do not over bake! 

Remove from oven, wait 5 minutes, thenunmold onto a wire rack to cool. 

 

** Serve cakes warm!  If you need to reheat, simply place ina microwave for 10 seconds.