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All chocolate, all the time
Once Upon a Chocolate Life is all about working with chocolate. Think the best hot chocolate, fudgy brownies, deep, dark chocolate cakes, and the chewiest chocolate cookies. With over 300 chocolate-infused recipes, you’re sure to find something special to try!
Find your new favorite chocolate recipe
Chocolate Cookie Recipes
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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies EVER!
Buttery and chewy with a crisp bite on the edges and ooey, gooey centers, these are hands-down the best chocolate chip cookies! The original recipe comes from The Cozy Kitchen and is sure to stand the test of time. It’s the best!
Fan-Favorites
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Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
Start your day off right with a big, steaming mug of peanut butter hot chocolate topped with whipped cream and drizzled with peanut butter.
Hot Chocolate Recipes
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Dark Chocolate Atole
This delicious Dark Chocolate Atole recipe elevates the popular Mexican beverage with lots of dark chocolate, warm cinnamon, vanilla, and rum.
Chocolate Cupcake & Cake Recipes
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Chocolate Mummy Cake For Halloween
This adorable Chocolate Mummy Cake features rich, moist chocolate cake with velvety vanilla buttercream frosting. A perfectly easy recipe to enjoy on Halloween that tastes delicious, too!
Chocolate Brownie Recipes
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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Brownies with Peanut Butter Glaze
These over-the-top Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Brownies are moist and fudgy, then drizzled with melted peanut butter and chocolate. If you like peanut butter and chocolate together, you will love these!
Quick Bread & Muffin Recipes
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Double Chunk Chocolate Muffins
If you love chocolate, I have the perfect recipe for you to make this weekend for breakfast. These double chunk chocolate muffins are so easy, chocolaty and delicious you are going to want to make a batch or two to eat or to share.
Chocolate Ice Cream Recipes
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No Churn Chocolate Bourbon Brownie Fudge Swirl Ice Cream
Cold and creamy with chewy bites of brownie in every bite, this no churn chocolate brownie bourbon fudge ice cream is decadent and over-the-top in all the right ways. Best of all, it’s made in the stand mixer so you don’t even need an ice cream machine!
Icing, Sauces, & Frosting
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Bailey’s Hot Fudge Sauce for the Perfect Sundae
This deep, dark Bailey’s Hot Fudge Sauce is the easiest and most decadent chocolate fudge sauce you can make to transform your hand-churned ice cream into a fancy sundae. Use this easy recipe to elevate any ice cream you happen to have on hand!
Puddings & Custards
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Bailey’s Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding
Rich, creamy, and infused with a boozy hit of Bailey’s liqueur, this easy Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding is the most decadent dessert of all time. Best of all, it comes together quickly with leftover rice and a few pantry staples!
Cereal Treats & Rice Krispies
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Treats
These Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Treats are a winning combination of Scotcheroos and Rice Krispie Treats, full of rich chocolate and peanut butter chips, marshmallows, more peanut butter, and rice cereal. Perfect for those times when you don’t want to turn on the oven and you need a super easy sweet treat.
Other Chocolate Treats
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Bailey’s Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding
Rich, creamy, and infused with a boozy hit of Bailey’s liqueur, this easy Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding is the most decadent dessert of all time. Best of all, it comes together quickly with leftover rice and a few pantry staples!
