Cook's Illustrated All-Time Best Chocolate Desserts

This special issue is designed to satisfy even the most avid chocolate enthusiast, with recipes for decadently dark Hot Fudge Pudding Cake, timeless favorites such as Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake and French Silk Chocolate Pie, superquick Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies and Easy Chocolate Ice Cream, and showpiece-worthy Chocolate-Espresso Dacquoise and Chocolate Pear Tart. Best of all, our test cooks tested each recipe up to 100 times until they arrived at the best, most foolproof version.