Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter, a 24-hour rest and two sizes of chocolate produce cookies with crisp edges, a chewy middle and pools…
Dark, milk and white — melted, folded and grated. 54 recipes on the site call for chocolate.
Brown butter, a 24-hour rest and two sizes of chocolate produce cookies with crisp edges, a chewy middle and pools…
The Venetian classic, built on a properly cooked zabaglione so it sets firm without gelatine and carries no raw-egg…
Cocoa-based brownies with a paper-thin crackly top and a dense, fudgy middle. No chocolate to melt, no mixer needed…
Individual chocolate cakes with a liquid centre, from oven to table in twenty minutes. The whole trick is pulling…
Ridged, crackling churros dusted in cinnamon sugar with a pot of dark chocolate for dipping. The dough is a simple…
A tender buttermilk cake with a whisper of cocoa, a tang from vinegar and buttermilk, and a proper cream cheese…
A long-simmered chilli built on toasted whole spices and a hit of dark chocolate, with the beef cut into cubes…
The Parisian macaron, with smooth domed shells, ruffled feet and a chewy centre. This uses the more forgiving French…
Blistered fried shells filled to order with sweetened sheep's-milk ricotta and candied peel. Filling them any…
Frozen açaí pulp blended thick enough to eat with a spoon, topped with granola, banana and honey. Brazilian in…
Choux buns filled with cold vanilla cream and drowned in hot dark chocolate sauce. The temperature contrast is the…
Real chocolate melted into milk and cream until it is thick enough to coat a spoon — closer to a drinking ganache…
Ice cream, milk and cocoa blended thick enough to hold a straw upright. The ratio matters far more than the…
Dense chocolate sponge split and layered with apricot jam, then coated in a poured chocolate glaze that sets to a…
Toasted marshmallow and a square of chocolate pressed between graham crackers until the chocolate slumps. A campfire…
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with sour cherries and unsweetened whipped cream, finished with chocolate…
A scoop of cold vanilla gelato with a shot of hot espresso poured over it at the table. Nothing else, and nothing to…
Not a pie at all — two layers of sponge with vanilla pastry cream between them and a chocolate glaze poured over the…
Chia seeds left in milk overnight until they swell into a set, tapioca-like pudding. Two ingredients, five minutes…
Crisp choux shells, split and piped full of vanilla crème pâtissière, capped with a dark chocolate glaze that sets…
Three sheets of caramelised puff pastry alternating with crème pâtissière, topped with the marbled feathered icing…
Squares of day-old butter sponge dipped in thin chocolate icing and rolled in desiccated coconut, sometimes split…
A soufflé that rises two inches above the ramekin and stays up long enough to reach the table, with a molten centre…
A flourless chocolate and almond cake from Capri with a crisp top and a dense, fudgy middle. Naturally gluten-free…
A thick, spongy pancake with a honeycomb surface, cooked in a heavy pan, then split and filled with butter…
Small pots of dark chocolate custard, baked in a bain-marie until barely set and eaten cold with a spoon. Three…
Puebla's legendary sauce: more than twenty ingredients — chillies, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruit and chocolate —…
The Romanian Easter and Christmas bread: a rich yeasted dough rolled round a thick swirl of ground walnut and cocoa…
The blondie done properly: brown butter, dark brown sugar and no leavening at all, so the middle stays dense and…
Seven layers, no mixing bowl: buttery crumb base, condensed milk, chocolate, butterscotch, coconut and pecans…
The birthday cake standard: three dark, tender layers made with cocoa bloomed in boiling coffee, under a silky…
Deep, dark cupcakes with a flat-enough top to frost and a crumb that stays moist for days. One bowl, a whisk, and no…
The German Marmorkuchen: one batter split in two, one half darkened with cocoa, and the two dragged through each…
Bakery-height domes, a crumb that tears rather than crumbles, and chocolate the whole way through instead of sunk in…
The pâtisserie window tart: crisp sweet pastry, a proper vanilla crème pâtissière, and whatever fruit is worth…
Four ingredients and no gelatine: melted chocolate, egg yolks, whipped whites and a little cream. The air is all…
Proper boiled fudge, taken to the soft-ball stage and then beaten as it cools. A thermometer and a clean pan are all…
Three layers that each need doing properly: a shortbread base baked until sandy, a caramel boiled to the right…
A rolled chocolate sponge filled with cream, coated in ganache and dragged with a fork into bark. The sponge is…
A flat, dense Sienese slab of nuts, dried fruit and spice held together by nothing but boiled honey and sugar…
Cà phê trứng: a whipped custard of egg yolk and condensed milk floated on strong Vietnamese coffee. It sounds wrong…
Laminated dough rolled around two batons of chocolate. The same dough as a croissant, and the same single problem…
A large choux bun with a small one on top, both filled and glazed, finished with a collar of buttercream. Meant to…
Six layers: almond sponge soaked in coffee syrup, coffee buttercream, chocolate ganache, repeated, and a poured…
Oxtail braised four hours with an absurd amount of celery, finished with pine nuts and raisins. The dish the Roman…
Sponge, sweetened ricotta and marzipan under a white glaze and a riot of candied fruit. Palermo at its most baroque…
Sponge fingers soaked scarlet in alchermes, layered with two custards. Emilia's answer to trifle, and older than the…
Verona's Christmas cake: a tall eight-pointed star of deep yellow butter dough, baked plain and buried in icing…
Toffee made from a tin of condensed milk, bananas, and a great deal of cream, on a biscuit base. Invented in a…
Dense, dark and barely set in the middle, with a papery crackled top. Forty minutes, and the whole thing turns on…
Condensed milk and cocoa cooked down until a spoon leaves a clean track, rolled in sprinkles. Every Brazilian…
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with cherries and cream. The kirsch is not optional and never was.
Five thin sponge layers with chocolate buttercream and a caramel disc on top, cut into wedges before it sets.
Sweet enriched rolls under a crisp sugar paste scored into a shell. Mexico's pan dulce, and the pattern is the name.