500 chocolate bar recipes

Chunky bittersweet chocolate cookies with hand-chopped chocolate bars and walnuts. Golden edges, soft centers, and pools of melted chocolate in every bite. Serve warm for maximum gooeyness.

Hello Dollys (magic cookie bars) layered with vanilla wafer crumbs, chocolate chips, coconut, pecans, and sweetened condensed milk. No mixing needed, just layer and bake for a gooey, chewy bar.

Fudgy chocolate brownies loaded with candied fruit and walnuts. Holiday-tin brownies that deliver fruitcake flavor in a chewy, chocolate-rich bar nobody leaves uneaten.

German sweet chocolate cream cheese brownies swirl a tangy cheesecake layer through rich German chocolate brownie batter with nuts. Marbled bars in one pan, ready in under an hour.

Brownie pecan pie bars combine a fudgy cocoa brownie base with a buttery pecan pie topping baked in layers. Two textures in one bar: dense chocolate on the bottom, gooey caramelized pecans on top.

Heath bar poke cake made with chocolate cake mix soaked in sweetened condensed milk and caramel, topped with whipped cream and crushed toffee. A make-ahead crowd pleaser.

Semi-homemade chocolate cake with a gooey caramel, roasted peanut, and milk chocolate chip layer baked right into the center. Starts with a box mix and six ingredients. Tastes like a giant chocolate turtle bar in cake form.

A buttery oat crust topped with gooey melted caramel, a layer of melted chocolate chips, and crunchy pecans, then chilled and cut into bars. Turtle candy in bar form that takes just 30 minutes to make.

Cream cheese chocolate chip cookie bars made from two rolls of refrigerated cookie dough sandwiching a vanilla cream cheese filling. A bakery-counter dessert from supermarket shortcuts in 15 minutes of prep.

Buttery shortbread bars topped with pecans, dried cherries, mini chocolate chips, and orange marmalade. A two-step bake that turns simple cookies into festive holiday treats in about an hour.

Kahlua chocolate nut squares pack coffee liqueur into a brown sugar bar studded with semi-sweet chocolate and walnuts, then crowned with browned butter Kahlua icing for a grown-up bake sale showstopper.

Easy German cheesecake brownies: German chocolate cake mix base with cream cheese topping baked into rich layered bars. Cake mix shortcut for sixteen squares.

Grasshopper brownies with fudgy chocolate base, minty creme de menthe cream cheese filling, and a glossy semi-sweet chocolate ganache top. Three-layer mint chocolate bars for the holidays.

Peanut butter brownies baked in a jelly roll pan with a melted chocolate chip topping spread over the warm bars and a crunch of chopped peanuts. Easy bar cookies built for a crowd.

Heath bar cookies loaded with frozen toffee bar chunks and nuts in a slice-and-bake butter cookie dough. Crispy edges, buttery crumb, and pockets of crunchy chocolate-covered toffee in every bite.

Old-fashioned chocolate sticks: a thin pan of dense fudgy chocolate-nut batter cut into slim rectangles after baking. Half-cookie, half-brownie bar made for coffee or after-dinner trays.