This page gathers five chocolate desserts that range from pies to rich cakes. Each one uses a straightforward method for building a smooth filling, baked crumb, or glossy topping.
The recipes here include layered pies, a bundt cake, and a microwave-made pie, offering different ways to work chocolate into a finished dessert.
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- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Pie
- Chocolate Brownie Cake
- Chocolate Pie
- Deep Dark Secret Chocolate Cake
- Microwave Chocolate Pie
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Pie
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Pie starts with a graham cracker crust filled with a peanut butter mixture made by beating peanut butter, powdered sugar, and softened cream cheese until smooth. Heavy cream is whipped separately to stiff peaks, then folded in for a lighter filling before the mixture is spread into the crust.
A melted chocolate layer is made in the microwave with chocolate chips and milk, then stirred with vanilla and poured over the peanut butter filling. The pie is chilled until set and can be finished with chopped peanuts for garnish.
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Chocolate Brownie Cake
Chocolate Brownie Cake combines chocolate cake mix and fudge brownie mix in one bundt pan dessert. The dry mixes are whisked with eggs, water, and oil until smooth, then baked until a toothpick comes out clean or with a few crumbs.
After cooling, the cake is topped with a ganache made by pouring hot heavy cream over chocolate morsels and whisking until smooth. The ganache is spread over the cooled cake, giving the bundt shape a glossy finish.
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Chocolate Pie
Chocolate Pie is a stovetop custard pie thickened over simmering water with sugar, flour, salt, cocoa powder, and milk. Egg yolks are stirred in slowly, then butter and vanilla are added before the filling goes into a cooled pie shell.
The pie is finished with meringue made by beating egg whites with sugar and lemon juice or cream of tartar until stiff glossy peaks form. The meringue is spread to the crust edge and baked until golden brown, then cooled before serving.
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Deep Dark Secret Chocolate Cake
Deep Dark Secret Chocolate Cake brings together devil’s food cake mix, instant chocolate pudding, eggs, sour cream, oil, brewed coffee, and dark rum in a bundt cake. Chocolate chips are folded into the batter before it is poured into a greased bundt pan and baked.
Its topping is a ganache made from hot cream poured over chopped semi-sweet chocolate and stirred smooth after sitting briefly. Once the cake is fully cooled and inverted, the ganache is drizzled over the top and left to set.
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Microwave Chocolate Pie
Microwave Chocolate Pie uses a microwave-safe bowl to make a chocolate custard with cream, milk, egg yolks, sugars, cornstarch, and salt. The mixture is cooked in short intervals, whisking after each, until it thickens like pudding, then vanilla and chopped chocolate are stirred in until smooth and glossy.
The filling can be poured into either a homemade Oreo crust or a premade chocolate or Oreo cookie crust. For the homemade version, crushed Oreos are mixed with melted butter and pressed into a pie plate, and the chilled pie is served with whipped cream or dessert topping.
