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Easy Chocolate Desserts

By Food & Wine
Updated December 21, 2016
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Chocolate desserts don't have to be complicated or involve many ingredients. For simple and fast recipes, try some of these easy chocolate desserts.
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Chocolate Shell

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F&W’s Justin Chapple makes his version of Magic Shell (a sauce that quickly hardens when poured over cold things) with coconut oil to give it additional flavor.

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Mini Chocolate-Hazelnut Cheesecakes

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Grace Parisi breaks up whole, cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies in a food processor with hazelnuts and butter to create a supercrunchy crust for these delectable little cheesecakes. The cream filling in the cookies both sweetens the crust and prevents it from becoming too crumbly.

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Mexican Chocolate Pots de CrĆØme

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Mexican chocolate, which is flavored with ingredients like cinnamon, almonds and vanilla, lends a distinct flavor to Stephanie Prida's rich custard. Look for it at Mexican markets and specialty-food stores.

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Brigadeiro

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Think of these handheld Brazilian sweets as chocolate truffles by way of the beach. They are a cinch to make and can be rolled in anything from chocolate sprinkles to shredded coconut to cocoa powder.

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Chocolate Brownie Cookies

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Food & Wine editor in chief Dana Cowin, a cookie connoisseur, declares these double-chocolate ones the most delicious she’s ever had. They’re like crispy-chewy brownies in cookie form.

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Dark Chocolate Bark with Roasted Almonds and Seeds

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"I'm more addicted to chocolate than I am to sugar," says chocolatier Jacques Torres. A small piece of this super-chunky dark-chocolate bark staves off his intense cravings.

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No-Bake Chocolate Custard

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This supersilky chocolate custard appears regularly on the dessert menu at Rubicon in San Francisco. Nicole Krasinski suggests serving it slightly chilled.

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Coconut Chocolate Candy Bars

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Try these simple coconut chocolate candy bars that use just six ingredients.

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Double-Chocolate Pudding

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This recipe from the late, great cookbook author Richard Sax has everything one could ask for in a chocolate pudding—an intense flavor and a silky texture that's still firm enough to stand a spoon in. For the best possible pudding, use top-quality cocoa powder and chocolate.

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No-Bake Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cookies

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Grace Parisi's crumbly, ultra-peanutty cookies require only four ingredients: puffed-corn cereal, peanut butter cups, peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles. The powdery texture of the ground cereal prevents the cookies from feeling sticky.

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Milk Chocolate, Nut and Raisin Clusters

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These crispy (feuilletine flakes), crunchy (corn flakes), nutty (toasted hazelnuts and pistachios) and chewy (golden raisins) mounds with just the right amount of salt are incredibly complex—and dangerously good.

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Milk-Chocolate Tart with Pretzel Crust

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This dessert from pastry chef Colleen Grapes, a tribute to the chocolate-covered pretzel, hits just the right salty-sweet note. Grapes mixes crushed pretzels with flour, butter, sugar and egg to make a crunchy crust, pours in a luxurious milk-chocolate filling, then sprinkles on more crushed pretzels as a garnish.

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1 of 12 Chocolate Shell
2 of 12 Mini Chocolate-Hazelnut Cheesecakes
3 of 12 Mexican Chocolate Pots de CrĆØme
4 of 12 Brigadeiro
5 of 12 Chocolate Brownie Cookies
6 of 12 Dark Chocolate Bark with Roasted Almonds and Seeds
7 of 12 No-Bake Chocolate Custard
8 of 12 Coconut Chocolate Candy Bars
9 of 12 Double-Chocolate Pudding
10 of 12 No-Bake Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cookies
11 of 12 Milk Chocolate, Nut and Raisin Clusters
12 of 12 Milk-Chocolate Tart with Pretzel Crust

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