21 chocolate chip recipes to satiate your sweet tooth

We don’t consider our cannoli to be complete until the filling that spills out both ends of the pastry is covered in chocolate chips. (Bonus points if the chocolate chips are mixed right into the filling!) You can buy premade pastry shells, or make the entire dessert from scratch using this recipe from Cooking Classy.

Blondies are essentially brownies without the chocolate—but that only pertains to the batter. It’s absolutely acceptable to still use chocolate chips, and they’re listed as an optional ingredient in this chewy blondie recipe from Broma Bakery. The type of chip is also totally up to you; you can use milk, dark, white, or whatever!

Cheaper and healthier than store-bought bars, these chewy chocolate chip granola bars from Lauren’s Latest are also easy to make. You’ll need chocolate chips, of course, as well as butter, honey, brown sugar, oats, rice cereal, and vanilla.

A half-cup serving of cocoa powder provides the chocolate for the cake portion of this fudgy recipe from Cafe Delites, but the ganache is made entirely of chocolate chips and heavy cream. It’s moist and delicious, and can be made in one bowl with no beaters, mixers, or sifters needed!

Banana bread recipes often involve too many unnecessary steps, which is why we love this one-bowl banana bread recipe from Tasty. That, and the fact that it contains a heaping helping of chocolate chips.

Cheesecake doesn’t have to be complicated; this chocolate chip cheesecake from Recipe Girl can be made with just eight ingredients—two for the crust and six for the filling. And the best part: No ice bath needed!

Well of course we’d have to include a chocolate chip cookie recipe. And not just any chocolate chip cookie recipe, but the BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe. And there’s some support for that name because this recipe from Joy Food Sunshine gets a perfect 5.0 rating from thousands of reviews.

If you prefer your cookies in bar form, try these chocolate chip cookie bars from Sugar Spun Run. They’re actually even easier than cookies, as the recipe requires no kitchen mixer, no chilling, and no scooping.

What’s that Jim Gaffigan quote? Something like, “Young man, you’re not having cake for breakfast—you’re having fried cake with syrup.” Yes, anytime you make or otherwise eat a stack of pancakes for breakfast, it’s a treat. Reward yourself a little more by making this chocolate chip pancake recipe from Tornadough Alli.

People sometimes equate scones with muffin tops, and that’s a fair comparison because both are soft and fluffy on the inside and a little crispy on the outside. We’ll take either breakfast baked goods, especially if they have chocolate chips in them. We’ll get to the muffin recipe later, so here’s one for scones, courtesy of The Two Peas & Their Pod.

Chocolate chip waffles can be an even bigger treat than pancakes, as the pockets in the waffles can catch the extra chocolate chips that you add on top. (You’re adding extra chocolate chips on top, right?) That means you’ll need even more chips than the half-cup called for in this recipe from Baking Mischief.

A chocolate-filled croissant, known as pain au chocolat in France, is a fancy breakfast item that deserves high-quality ingredients. Or you could make this corner-cutting 20-minute version from Sally’s Baking Addiction that uses just three simple ingredients: chocolate chips, a roll of refrigerated crescent dough, and an egg.

Chocolate mousse seems like a complicated dessert (probably because the word “mousse” looks and sounds kinda fancy), but it’s simple to make. This version from Celebrating Sweets only requires chocolate chips, heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract, and takes just 15 minutes to make, not including the chilling time.

Have you ever made chocolate pudding from scratch? It tastes better, is more satisfying to prepare, and is still very easy! Check out this recipe from Celebrating Sweets, which can be made in fewer than 15 minutes.

Add some texture—and yes, extra chocolate—to your next batch of brownies by opting for double chocolate brownies. This recipe from Taste of Home calls for two heaping cups of chocolate chips or chunks and has the word “ultimate” in the name.

These decadent double chocolate muffins are sure to be a hit for your next breakfast, whether you’re trying to impress your family, your friends, or just your own taste buds. The Busy Baker has a fantastic recipe, which includes some tips to fully cook your muffins while also keeping them fluffy.

There’s no added sugar, flour, or butter in these energy bites, which instead use oats, coconut, peanut butter, flaxseed, honey, vanilla, and chocolate chips. They also don’t require baking, even though, ironically, the recipe is from Gimme Some Oven.

The best chocolate chip ice cream is mint chocolate chip, and if you have an ice cream maker, you can make it at home! This version from Allrecipes is billed as “easy,” so don’t be intimidated!

Some people are against the concept of oatmeal cookies because they typically come with raisins—but they don’t have to! Oatmeal cookies can just as easily be made with chocolate chips, like in this recipe from Preppy Kitchen. (Also, raisins are delicious…what’s the problem?)

If this chocolate pizza from Cleobuttera is truly sinful, then to heck with our diet! Not only is this a pizza made with chocolate, but it’s sort of like a giant s'more. The graham cracker is in dough form, the marshmallow is a bunch of miniatures, and the chocolate is Nutella with three types of chips: semisweet chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate.

One of the most classic white chocolate desserts is the white chocolate macadamia cookie. And as this recipe from Preppy Kitchen will show you, if you have the two obvious ingredients, all you need is butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, flour, baking powder, baking soda, corn starch, and salt.