Cake and Brownies

• Chocolate chips can be easily melted in a saucepan over medium heat and them stirred into cake batter to make simple chocolate cake. You can also add melted chocolate chips to cheesecake to make a rich chocolate cheesecake. Or, add chocolate chips, without melting them, to brownie batter to make gooey chocolate-chip brownies.
  
  

Bars and Cookies

• Chocolate-chip cookies are one of the easiest and most common things to make with chocolate chips. Most traditional chocolate-chip cookie recipes are quick and easy, but still taste great. For a healthier change, add chocolate chips to oatmeal cookies. You can also give toffee and crispy rice bars a chocolaty twist by adding a few handfuls of chocolate chips, or use the chips to make the chocolate topping over the custard icing on Nanaimo bars.
  
  

Mousse and Pudding

• Homemade chocolate puddings and mousses make for rich, delicious and decadent desserts. Chocolate mousse is simple but elegant; the only cooking required is melting the chocolate. Some cookies, like chocolate meringues, involve similar steps to making pudding, but require baking. The result is a soft and airy dessert that is not quite like your usual cookies, but is not quite a mousse either.
  
  

Muffins

• With a few tweaks, namely adding milk, a chocolate-chip cookie recipe can become a chocolate-chip muffin recipe. Alternatively, just add chocolate chips to an oatmeal muffin recipe for a sweetened treat, or melt the chocolate chips to make chocolate muffins and cupcakes.
  
  

Pancakes

• Sweeten your breakfast by adding chocolate chips to pancake batter just before frying it. The result is gooey, melty chocolate in every bite. Dousing your pancakes in maple syrup adds extra sweetness, and it goes great with the chocolate.