As of: January 27, 2024, 5:30 p.m
By: Larissa Glunz
The cake turns out wonderfully moist, the cookies are incredibly melt-in-the-mouth - with chocolate as the basic ingredient, one recipe is better than the other.
Chocolate is the best proof that the cocoa gods really exist.
Chocolate is made from the cocoa bean in several steps, which can then be further processed as you wish.
As a bar that melts directly in your mouth, it is always worth a treat and as a baking and dessert ingredient it easily puts many other sweets in the shade.
You can never have enough recipes with chocolate.
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In cakes, cookies or mousse, chocolate shows its best side not only on “Chocolate Cake Day”, which is celebrated annually on January 27th.
It doesn't matter whether it ends up in pieces directly in the dough or is used as a glaze for decoration: If you want a more intense chocolate taste, you should use dark chocolate.
The popular milk chocolate, which is made with more milk, is somewhat milder.
White chocolate, which does not contain cocoa powder but does contain cocoa butter, is wonderfully creamy and sweet.
1. Chocolate chip cookies top the list of chocolate recipes
Marshmallows and chocolate chips make the chocolate cookies a complete treat.
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Splitting these cookies in half reveals an incredibly delicious center of melted chocolate and soft marshmallows.
The inner values are clearly convincing here.
You can bake the recipe for the chocolaty chocolate chip cookies with marshmallows every week, after all, cookies are always delicious.
2. Chocolate cake with salted pretzels
Must try: Salted pretzels are spread on the chocolate cake as a special topping.
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The dream duo sweet and salty combined in a chocolate cake to kneel down on: chocolate and pretzels work together and this collaboration is more than worth seeing and, above all, tasting.
A cake couldn't be juicier and you'll fall in love with this recipe for a chocolate cake with salted pretzels at first bite.
3. No-bake stracciatella cake
No oven is required for this stracciatella cake, instead the refrigerator does the work.
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The oven is left out because the stracciatella cake with cream cheese cream is a cool affair.
True to the motto “Twice is better”, finely chopped dark chocolate is mixed into the cream, and the cake from the fridge is also decorated with chocolate shavings.
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4. Blondies with lemon curd
On Chocolate Day you can safely treat yourself to a little more of the delicious Blondie with lemon curd.
The recipe is available at Simply Tasty.
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The “light” version of the brownies is called Blondie and is not made with dark chocolate, but with white chocolate.
Lemon curd, a lemon cream with butter and egg, is responsible for the fruity and sour note.
These juicy lemon curd blondies should be at the top of your baking to-do list.
5. Creamy chocolate mousse
This lightning dessert consists of only two ingredients (symbolic image).
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Who needs chips or fruit gum when you can have chocolate?
For the perfect chocolate mousse you only need to have two ingredients at home, it really couldn't be easier.
Water and chocolate ensure that the French dessert is airy and creamy at the same time.
6. Lava Cake with a liquid core
This chocolate cake with a liquid center is the dream of many sweet tooths.
The recipe for the lava cake can be found here.
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These small but delicious chocolate cakes with a liquid center literally have it all.
They are served straight from the oven while still warm, so that the liquid chocolate runs out slowly with the first spoonful - a moment that makes every foodie's heart beat faster.
7. Hot chocolate
But please with cream, because it tops off the simple recipe for hot chocolate.
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Chocolate that is served in a cup and not on a cake plate has of course also won a place on the best list.
Especially when it's stormy and raining outside, a cup of homemade hot chocolate can banish any hint of a bad mood.