Our Best Recipes With Chocolate Chips Include Cookies, Muffins, and More

Chocolate Banana Air Fryer Empanadas with Cinnamon Whipped Cream

Whether they’re sweet or sloppy joe-inspired, we’re a sucker for any sort of hand pie. This air-fryer dessert is quickly becoming one of our all-time favorites due to the ultra easy crust (store-bought empanada discs) and the dreamy duo that star in the filling. Bananas and chocolate chips give these non-traditional dessert empanadas a bit of banana split flair—and a lot of decadent flavor.

NYC’s Giant Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is one of the best cookie recipes for serious dessert fans. Since each cookie is made with a full ⅓-cup of cookie dough, you’ll be treated to a bounty of cocoa goodness. In addition to a handful of walnuts for some sweet-salty crunch, the recipe calls for a 2 ½ cups of semisweet and milk or dark chocolate chips.

Banana Split Bread

We’ve taken everything you know and love from a scoop shop banana split and infused it into this totally-appropriate-to-eat-for-breakfast quick bread recipe. Canned crushed pineapple, bananas, maraschino cherries, and a splash of vanilla team up to lend a lusciously tender texture and just enough sweetness to this recipe with chocolate chips. When we enjoy a slice after dinner, we’ve been known to top it with a scoop of ice cream or dollop of whipped cream—and highly recommend you consider doing so, too.

Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

Any time we see a skillet cookie on a restaurant menu, there’s about a 99% chance we’re going to order it. (The 1% is when there’s also warm fruit pie served a la mode. Swoon!) This easy restaurant copycat recipe is the larger format, shareable chocolate chip cookie that many soft cookie fans would dream of devouring. The baking basics are all here, including butter, vanilla, sugar, egg, flour, and chips of course. No specialty ingredients are required for this cast-iron skillet creation. Each bite proves that simple can be spectacular.

Gooey Chocolate Pudding Cakes

Speaking of soft and rich restaurant remakes, these individually-portioned chocolate cakes are our tribute to the 1990s menu mainstay. The over-the-top tasty results will convince you that chocolate lava cakes are timeless. A triple-play of cocoa—chocolate-hazelnut spread, semisweet chocolate chips, and cocoa powder—will make you very happy that you don't have to share.

Chocolate Revel Bars

We had to grab a tissue box after reading the reviews of this recipe with chocolate chips. “I have made these since 1999 when the recipe was first in BHG. They have never been a disappointment,” one fan says. Another confirms that the big-batch, walnut-oat-chocolate chip bar cookies were literally medal-worthy. “I got a thank you note, photo, and medals (!) because I sent these bars to my son and his unit when they were in Afghanistan. I sent a lot of things, but I always had to include these, as they were the favorite.” We think they’ll quickly become yours, too.

Orange-Chocolate Chip Muffins

Mornings look a lot brighter when a batch of this citrusy recipe with chocolate chips awaits. The flavor combination of oranges and chocolate always reminds us of Christmas, although there’s no wrong time of year to serve these muffins. The orange juice, orange zest, and chip-spiked treats are almost as easy as a boxed mix, but taste like something you’d snag at a chic bakery. The secret to their light and moist consistency? Opting for vegetable oil instead of butter and only stirring the batter until it’s just moistened. Yes, a few lumps are A-OK!

Nutty Chocolate Chip Pancakes

The morning motivation continues with these diner-style pancakes. Cocoa powder and mini semisweet chocolate chips help the flapjacks taste like chocolate cake…that’s totally appropriate to consume before noon. 

Test Kitchen Tip: Start to finish, this entire recipe only takes 35 minutes, but to get a head start, mix, cook, and freeze a batch to cook-from-frozen in the oven or toaster in under 10 minutes.

Safe-to-Eat Monster Cookie Dough

No need to feel like you’re pushing your luck by nibbling on raw cookie dough. We’ve workshopped the recipe to ensure this no-bake dessert doesn’t include raw all-purpose flour or eggs; the two food safety fears. That doesn’t mean this recipe with chocolate chips skimps on flavor. Peanut butter, oats, brown sugar, chocolate chips, and sprinkles see to it that each spoonful tastes like a party. 

Chocolate-Swirled Pumpkin Bars

Because pie shouldn’t get all the canned pumpkin recipe glory, we like to keep an extra can of the puréed winter squash on hand all year long to make these warmly-spiced pumpkin bars. In addition to the cream cheese swirl, the batter includes two sources of chocolate chips: melted chips folded into the batter, plus mini semisweet chips peppered in. A BHG home baker describes these as, “so good! Very moist and the spices are incredible.”

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies

Candy bar aisle MVP chocolate peanut butter cups are never quite big enough to cure our cravings for all things chocolate-peanut butter. So we took those two ingredients and added them to these pillowy, cream-filled whoopie pies. With peanut butter, chocolate chips, and cocoa in the pies and even more peanut butter in the marshmallow filling, these are among the most popular sandwich cookie recipes to ever leave our Test Kitchen. (And we totally understand why!)

Low-Sugar Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins

Each of these double-chocolate zucchini muffins has just 7 grams of total sugar, which puts this recipe with chocolate chips about on par with the sugar content in a carton of Greek yogurt. The natural sweetness of applesauce, just 2 tablespoons of brown sugar (per 12 muffins), and the dessert-like flavors from cinnamon and chocolate are all the sweetness you need. Some BHG staff members adore these so much that they make a batch every week during summer squash season.

Fudge Ripple Turtle Brownies

Brownies are a bake sale and potluck staple on their own. But once you dress them up like a nostalgic homemade candy recipe, we’re almost positive you’ll be getting at least one request for the recipe. Get the party started with melted unsweetened chocolate in the brownie batter, then take these easy homemade brownies to the next level with a topping of melted vanilla caramels, chopped pecans, and a drizzle of melted semisweet chocolate chips.