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Sicilian Love Cake

A decadent layered cake starting with chocolate cake batter topped with a creamy mascarpone-ricotta filling that magically swaps layers as it bakes. Finished with a rich cocoa-mascarpone frosting.

Valerie's Spumoni

Valerie's Spumoni

Three layers of gelato featuring chocolate, cherry-Amarena, and pistachio flavors set over a chocolate wafer crust in a loaf pan and frozen overnight. A stunning, tri-colored Italian frozen dessert that brings a touch of the old country to the family table.

salted caramel chocolate chip cookies

Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chewy chocolate chip cookies finished with a generous sprinkle of flaky sea salt for a sweet-salty contrast. An irresistible game day dessert.

White Chocolate Bark with Pistachios and Dried Cranberries

White Chocolate Bark with Pistachios and Dried Cranberries

Tempered white chocolate is spread across parchment and studded with bright green pistachios, ruby-red dried cranberries, and a scattering of flaky sea salt. This simple, no-bake confection delivers a satisfying sweet-salty crunch while adding pops of festive color to the spread.

Slow-Cooker Chicken Mole

Slow-Cooker Chicken Mole

A complex mole sauce built from ancho and pasilla chiles, almonds, pepitas, Mexican chocolate, raisins, chipotles, and warm spices is slow-cooked with chicken for four hours and served with a bright radish salad and charred tortillas. This rich, deeply layered mole showcases the depth of Mexican cuisine and lets the slow cooker do the patient work of melding dozens of ingredients into one extraordinary sauce.

Chocolate Hazelnut Pull-Apart Bread

Chocolate Hazelnut Pull-Apart Bread

Two layers of homemade bread dough spread with chocolate hazelnut filling, chocolate chips, and chopped hazelnuts, cut into rectangles and stacked in a loaf pan. A gooey, indulgent pull-apart bread that makes sharing irresistible and every bite decadent.

gooey brownies

Classic Gooey Brownies

Dense, fudgy brownies made with unsweetened chocolate and buttermilk for a rich, gooey center. The ultimate movie night indulgence.

Red and Black Checkerboard Cookies

Red and Black Checkerboard Cookies

Precision-cut strips of red-tinted and chocolate doughs are carefully assembled into a checkerboard brick, chilled, sliced, and baked into striking two-toned cookies. These eye-catching cookies cleverly echo the game night theme with their built-in board game pattern.

Chocolate-Mint Love Cake with Mint Ganache

Chocolate-Mint Love Cake with Mint Ganache

Boxed chocolate cake mix is elevated with peppermint extract and a hidden layer of ricotta-mascarpone cheesecake baked right inside, then topped with a glossy mint chocolate ganache. This indulgent, semi-homemade cake delivers a cool, creamy mint surprise in every slice and proves that starting with a box mix can still yield a show-stopping dessert.

Crunchy Toffee Buckeyes

Crunchy Toffee Buckeyes

Peanut butter balls studded with crunchy toffee candy pieces are dipped in double-boiler melted chocolate, leaving the signature peanut butter eye visible on top. These sweet-salty, crunchy-creamy confections are an irresistible game-day treat that disappears fast from any snack spread.