Chocolate

Two toppings — one mint, one chocolate — accent these luscious treats. Serve them with your choice of fresh fruit. Wrap the brownies in foil, and pack the fruit in an airtight plastic container.

At the Markham in New York, this cake is served with toasted almond ice cream.

This dessert is easy to make on a cleaned rack after grilling a main course.

Mayonnaise is the surprise ingredient in these cookies.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Similar to a flourless cake, this one contains only a small amount of flour, which results in an incredibly rich, fudgelike dessert.

Because they contain so little flour, these cookies have a chewy, brownie-like texture.

An old-fashioned layer cake topped with a lusciously sticky icing.

It's the extra chocolate that enriches and elevates this dessert from the simple to the sublime. And it takes about 2 minutes longer to prepare than pudding from a boxed mix. What a difference 2 minutes makes.

Cheese fondue originated in Switzerland, but chocolate fondue was a New World recipe created in 1964 by Konrad Egli, a Swiss-born chef working at New York's Chalet Swiss restaurant. Zurich's Toblerone chocolate works well in the dish, because its honey-nougat blend echoes the honey and almond flavoring that are also in the recipe.