New York City is filled with potential spots to snag chocolate dessert. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by choice, or find yourself eating the same chocolate dessert every time you crave chocolate. Get out there, chocolate lovers, and taste the chocolate of New York! Here's a list of 11 must-haves to get you started on a chocolate adventure. Enjoy!

1. Ovenly's Brooklyn Blackout Cake

Head over to Greenpoint, Brooklyn for a slice of most decadent-yet-refreshing chocolate cake you will ever experience. Their other baked goods aren't even worth your time compared to this cake. It's made with stout, an unexpected, but perfect counter-balance to chocolatey richness.

2. Chocolate Xiao Long Bao

Oh yeah. It's a soup dumpling filled with chocolate. Literally, it's a chocolate pouch. A pouch of precious, precious chocolate. Go to The Bao, on St. Mark's Place, to experience this wonder for yourself.

3. Sugar and Plumm's Chocolove Sundae

Check out one of Sugar and Plumm's two locations (on the Upper West and in the West Village) and taste this epitome of chocolate ice cream decadence. It starts with some of the richest chocolate ice cream you've ever tasted. Then, they generously pile on fudgy brownie bites, and buttery blondie chunks. Next comes the whipped cream, and finally a wicked drizzle of fudge. Amazing.

4. Chocolate Room Pudding

Visit The Chocolate Room in Brooklyn to enjoy this famous chocolate pudding. It's the creamiest you've ever had. And that whipped cream on the top doesn't just bring it to the next level, it practically crowns it chocolate pudding royalty.

5. Cocoa Bar's Hot Chocolate

Visit Cocoa Bar NYC and choose from white, dark, cinnamon spicy, or funky monkey hot chocolate. Without a doubt, the thickest, richest hot chocolate you've ever had. Hardcore chocolate-lovers only.

6. The Chocolates from Jacques Torres Chocolate

Visit one of their 10 NYC locations and try a selection of their fabulous chocolates and truffles. Allow yourself to revel in their vast selection and choose whatever your heart desires. It's all to die for.

7. A Paradis to Go Brownie

You've got to try a Paradis to Go brownie! They're the fudgy richness of your dreams! It's one of the best brownies you can get in NYC.

8. Levain Bakery's Dark Chocolate Chip Cookie

The chewiest, richest chocolate cookie in all the land, folks. Head on down to their Upper West or Harlem location to enjoy.

9. Taureau's Chocolate Fondue

Taureau's dessert fondue brings chocolate back to basics with its simple fruit and marshmallow selections, and pure chocolate fondue. Visit them in Soho to appreciate chocolate in one of its best forms.

10. Doughnut Plant's Blackout Doughnut

It's a chocolate cake doughnut with a chocolate pudding filling, chocolate glaze, and chocolate cake crumbs. Get to one of their many Manhattan and Brooklyn locations to chow down on this beauty!

11. Baked Brookster

Go to Baked in Brooklyn to get this one-of-a-kind brownie-cookie-tart fusion. Chocolatey, buttery, and flakey all in one. You won't regret making the trip.