1,568 cocoa powder recipes

A light, spongy chocolate walnut cake with ground toasted walnuts, cocoa, and cinnamon, split and filled with orange marmalade. No butter needed in this elegant European-style torte.

Double chocolate muffins with cocoa-rich batter studded with white chocolate chunks inside and on top. Tender, bakery-style, and easy to make from scratch.

A lighter take on chocolate brownies using reduced-fat margarine, sugar substitute, and skim evaporated milk. Topped with pecans and ready in just 30 minutes.

Summer celebration chocolate cake swaps some oil for applesauce in a buttermilk-cocoa sheet cake, topped with quick chocolate frosting. A potluck-ready eggless crowd-pleaser.

Old-fashioned chocolate cake with crushed peppermint stick candy folded right into the batter. A tender cocoa layer cake with a cool, pepperminty crunch. Straight out of a mid-century church cookbook.

Mound cake: copycat dessert tasting like a giant Mounds candy bar. Devil's food layers with marshmallow-coconut filling and rich chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Italian gocci di cioccolata, chocolate drop cookies spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, baked soft and finished with a glaze. Old-world Italian drop cookie with warm holiday flavor.

Chocolate-filled cake roll with a light sponge cake and chocolate pudding filling, dusted with cocoa. A lighter jelly roll dessert made with reduced sugar and skim milk.

Chocolate turtle cake with a gooey caramel and pecan layer hidden between two devil's food cake layers, topped with a boiled cocoa frosting. Inspired by turtle candy.

Mint Nanaimo bars layer a chocolate-graham crumb base, a peppermint vanilla pudding cream center, and a glossy chocolate top. The Canadian no-bake classic with a cool mint twist.

Eggless chocolate zucchini bread made with egg substitute, cocoa powder, cinnamon, and shredded zucchini for moisture. Makes two loaves with a rich, fudgy crumb.

Chocolate pepper cookies bring a slow, smoky heat from black pepper, cayenne, and cinnamon layered into deep unsweetened cocoa. Rolled thin and cut into shapes, they bake crisp with a warm spiced finish.

Chocolate cherry cookies with a maraschino cherry tucked into each thumbprint and a glossy chocolate-condensed milk frosting spooned over the top before baking.

Chocolate thumbprint cookies bake a cocoa-walnut shortbread base, then fill the wells with vanilla cream and ruby cherry pie filling. Holiday cookie tray showstopper.

Fallen chocolate souffle cake: a dense, fudgy flourless-style cake of bittersweet chocolate, almond, and egg whites that puffs then collapses into a crackled top. An elegant, almost gluten-free dessert.

Pounded chicken breasts simmer in a quick mole-inspired sauce of cocoa, picante, cumin, and oregano with warm hints of cloves and nutmeg. Bold, spicy, and on the table in 30 minutes.