Brownie

Much richer than the average cookie, these treats start with a brownie crust, which gets filled with a luxurious mocha cheesecake mixture. The whole thing is finished off with a sour cream topping and then cut into bars. Be sure to bake the crust and filling a day before serving the bars.

These thick, chewy brownies have a peanut-butter base and a chocolaty top.

Using stencils to add powdered sugar designs is a great way to dress up the treats.

In this recipe, dense chocolate cake is topped with a glaze made from raspberry jam and chocolate-fresh berries are the finishing touch. This dessert is elegant picnic fare: Prepare the bars a day ahead, and pack in a covered container.

Adding macadamia nuts and ginger transforms familiar brownies into something truly extraordinary. For a festive summer finale, serve them with strawberries.

Just wonderful even when it is not Passover—fudgy, dense, delicious. Another "most requested" recipe.

Fudgy Cocoa Brownies with Chocolate Chips and Walnuts

Peanut butter chips and chopped salted peanuts take brownies to a new level. Offer fresh fruit alongside.

Cocoa brownies have the softest center and chewiest candylike top "crust" of all because all of the fat in the recipe (except for a small amount of cocoa butter in the cocoa) is butter, and all of the sugar is granulated sugar rather than the finely milled sugar used in chocolate. Use the best cocoa you know for these fabulous brownies.

Nobody can resist brownies, especially when they’re studded with chunks of white chocolate and served with strawberries.

In 1897, the Sears catalog offered its customers a treat called brownies. No one seems to remember whether they were bar cookies or a chocolate confection named after a popular cartoon character. No matter; by the 1900s the brownie as we now know it had arrived. The recipe for these dense, moist brownies is from Heather Ho, pastry chef at Boulevard in San Francisco.

Active time: 1 hr Start to finish: 3 3/4 hr (includes cooling)

We'll walk you through each step, from cannabutter to dosing.

In the Venn diagram of chocolate bakes, this recipe falls squarely in the middle of where brownie, molten chocolate cake, and chocolate soufflé meet.