Chocolate Dessert Recipes – Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate! Looking for that perfect chocolate dessert?
Look no further. We’ve gathered all of our favorite chocolate desserts from brownies to cakes to cookies to pies, plus a few special treats such as truffles and lava cake.
Celebrate all things chocolate with these mouthwatering recipes.
Chocolate desserts are a favorite of many people. There is something so decadent about a rich, creamy, and smooth dessert made with chocolate.
Not only are they delicious but they are also fun to prepare, especially if you have kiddos in the kitchen with you.
Some people prefer white chocolate desserts while others prefer the rich taste of dark chocolate or even milk chocolate.
Here you will find some of the most popular recipes from around the web – specifically those that involve some sort of melted chocolate (or plenty of cocoa powder).
One thing that you will notice when making these recipes is that they vary from easy to make to a little more difficult.
But mostly easy with step-by-step instructions to make sure you don’t go wrong! Most contain very simple ingredients and can be prepared at home by anyone.
Chocolate Dessert Recipes
Dark Chocolate Mousse
Whether you are looking for a romantic dessert idea, or for a Valentine’s Day treat, this rich dark chocolate mousse is THE BEST real chocolate mousse recipe. It’s a perfect chocolate dessert and has hints of espresso in it as well, complete with homemade whipping cream, it is delightful!
Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats {with Chocolate}
How can you take a favorite childhood treat and make it better? Add peanut butter and chocolate! Yes, these Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats with Chocolate are taking those marshmallow squares to the next level.
Chocolate Berry Cups
Chocolate Berry Cups are delicious homemade treats. Simple to make and delicious, they are a perfect after-dinner indulgence or edible gift.
Chewy Hot Chocolate Macarons (Chocolate Dessert Recipes)
Macaron cookies made with hot chocolate powder, filled with creamy hot chocolate French buttercream and topped with mini marshmallows. These decadent hot chocolate macarons are everything you love about a hot chocolate and more.
One Bowl Double Chocolate Banana Muffin Recipe
These moist and chocolatey One Bowl Double Chocolate Banana Muffins taste fresh from the bakery, but are made in your kitchen! Light, fluffy, and decadent, they’re a real treat.
Chocolate Hazelnut Creme Brulee (made with Nutella)
Chocolate Hazelnut Creme Brulee made with Nutella is a rich creamy custard base that is covered with a crunchy caramelized sugar crust.
Chocolate and Caramel Cockroach Clusters (Chocolate Dessert Recipes)
Honeydukes sells candy called cockroach clusters. While the wizarding world may use roaches, I used chocolate, caramel, pecans, and cereal!
Chocolate Crepes with Strawberries
Surprise your family or special someone with these chocolate crepes made from scratch! This easy crepe recipe is a perfect dessert featuring chocolate, strawberries and caramel sauce for a combination that is nothing short of heavenly! Try it for a delicious Valentine’s Day dessert or your next birthday or anniversary celebration.
Caramel Pecan Christmas Turtles Recipe
This recipe for homemade caramel pecan turtles has been passed down for generations and is the perfect Christmas treat.
Sugar-free banana popsicle made with just 2 ingredients
This sugar-free banana popsicle is only made up of 2 ingredients. If you are looking for something delicious, healthy, and low-calorie. These quick, easy, and scrumptious banana popsicles are just for you.
Dark Chocolate Covered Marshmallows (Chocolate Dessert Recipes)
These dark chocolate covered marshmallows are the best homemade candy. Fluffy homemade marshmallow is dipped in dark chocolate and topped with sprinkles.
Chocolate Rugelach Recipe
These chocolate rugelach are a marriage of a cream cheese pastry wrapped around a rich, dark chocolate and orange filling. Rugelach are a classic part of Jewish baking.
Chocolate Nonpareils Candy
Chocolate nonpareils candy is a homemade confection made up of rich chocolate discs with a rainbow nonpareil sprinkle coating on one side. They are small sweet bites that you can pop in your mouth with a crunchy bottom and creamy chocolate top.
Bunet - Cocoa and Amaretti Pudding
Bunet – a baked Cocoa and Amaretti Pudding recipe from the Piedmont Region of Italy, made with Amaretto Liqueur and Almond cookies.
No Bake Dark Chocolate OREO Truffles Recipe
This dark chocolate OREO truffles recipe is the perfect way to cure that sweet tooth, it’s pretty easy to make and uses only 3 ingredients!
Chocolate Vegan Dessert Recipes
Easy Chocolate Pudding Recipe – Vegan + Non-Dairy + Gluten-Free
This easy chocolate pudding recipe is vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free, making it the perfect chocolate pudding dessert recipe for all!
Silken Tofu Chocolate Mousse (Vegan)
This healthy chocolate mousse recipe makes an amazing vegan chocolate treat for when you’re craving something sweet but are short on time. The best part is that this indulgent dessert is dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan and made without eggs or butter.
Chocolate Tart with Strawberries (vegan)
Rich and decadent Chocolate Tart with Strawberries! Made entirely vegan, with a healthier spelt flour crust and a creamy chocolate-vanilla ganache filling. Refreshing strawberries on top round up this divine and delicate dessert.
Chocolate Cake with Strawberries and Whipped Cream (Chocolate Dessert Recipes)
A fudgy Chocolate Cake with Strawberries and Whipped Cream. It is full of chocolate goodness, paired with a layer of coconut whipped cream and topped with refreshing strawberries. The best part about this heavenly dessert? It is entirely vegan, egg free and dairy free!
Easy Fluffy French Vegan Chocolate Mousse With Aquafaba
If you have been wondering how to make fluffy French chocolate mousse without eggs aquafaba is your answer! This 2 ingredient chocolate mousse is quick and easy to make.
Peanut Double Chocolate Vegan Cookies
These chocolatey cookies are full of chopped peanuts and chocolate chips. They’re sweet, a little salty, and completely delicious.
Chocolate Mint Pudding Pie (Chocolate Dessert Recipes)
This chocolate mint pudding pie is a mouthwatering dessert that looks posh and sophisticated while being easy and quick to make. Gluten, Dairy free, Vegan and Top allergens free but so good it is great for gatherings to suit many dietary restrictions.
Vegan Dark Chocolate Orange Truffles
These Vegan Dark Chocolate Orange Truffles are rich and decadent! The center filling is thick and fudgy, and completely coated with a chocolate layer topped with fresh orange zest and flaky sea salt!
Easy Vegan Chocolate Avocado Truffles for Kids
These easy and irresistible no bake chocolate truffles are made with just two ingredients. Toppings can easily be added for pops of color, flavor, and texture. They are perfect for any occasion!
Chocolate Gluten Free Dessert Recipes
Easy Chocolate Mousse
This quick and simple chocolate mousse is the most indulgent no-bake and naturally gluten-free dessert. This old-school, seemingly fancy dessert is light and fluffy, yet deeply rich and decadent all at the same time.
Instant Pot Fudge
Chocolate fudge is an easy treat to make at home. It can be easily made in the instant pot using it as a double boiler. This quick 3 ingredient gluten-free treat makes a pleasant surprise for your family and friends and is a great gifting idea for the holidays.
Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Recipe (Chocolate Dessert Recipes)
This gluten-free chocolate cake recipe is moist and rich. This gluten-free chocolate cake is incredibly easy to make. You won’t believe this cake is gluten-free! There’s a dairy-free option too!
Hazelnut Chocolate Cake Recipe From Piedmont, Italy (Torta di Nocciole)
This Italian hazelnut chocolate cake is made with only 4 ingredients, is naturally gluten free and dairy free, but tastes sublime!
Healthy Chocolate Baked Donut Recipe {Without Yeast}
These healthy chocolate baked donuts are the ultimate rich, yet healthier treat! Baked rather than fried, these fluffy glazed donuts are made from scratch with oat flour and almond flour for a nutrient-packed sweet treat. They require no yeast and are super easy to make for a fun dessert, snack, or breakfast! {Gluten-free & dairy-free-friendly}
Chocolate Cheesecake Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Mini Cheesecakes
These chocolate mini cheesecakes are an ultimate treat for any chocolate fans out there! Made with crumbly, buttery biscuit base, rich and extra-creamy chocolate filling and a topping of whipped chocolate cream. You can decorate them with some mini chocolate Easter eggs for quick and easy Easter treat!
Instant Pot Chocolate Cheesecake
This decadent Instant Pot Chocolate Cheesecake with Oreo cookie crust and ganache topping is the perfect dessert for chocolate lovers! It is rich, creamy, and sinfully delicious while being easy to prepare in your pressure cooker.
Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake Brownies with Nutella
These Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake Brownies with Nutella start out with a decadent Nutella brownie layer and are then topped with a rich cheesecake layer that is swirled with even more Nutella.
Dark Chocolate Orange Cheesecake
If you’re a cheesecake fan you will love this Dark Chocolate Orange Cheesecake recipe
Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites
Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites are made with mini bite-size pieces of cheesecake covered in a delicious chocolate shell coating. They are the perfect party treat!
Instant Pot Oreo Cheesecake
Instant Pot Oreo Cheesecake is so easy and delicious. Featuring an Oreo cookie bottom and topped with hot fudge, this amazing cheesecake is one recipe you’ll want to make again and again! Is there ever a time that isn’t a good time for cheesecake?
Chocolate Brownie Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Cherry Brownies
Rich, decadent and completely irresistible- it’s the best way to describe these chocolate cherry brownies. With paper-thin, crackly top, fudgy and gooey in the middle, and crispy, chewy corners and chunks of sweet and juicy cherries, these chocolate brownies tick ALL of the boxes and more!
Chocolate Orange Brownies Recipe
If you are after a moist, fudgy brownie you can not go wrong with this chocolate orange brownies recipe. These are super moist, fudgy, delicious and so easy to make!
Triple Chocolate Pecan Fudge Brownies
These Triple Chocolate Pecan Fudge Brownies are without a doubt the most chocolaty brownie you’ll ever make…. yes they are truly insanely delicious!
Espresso Brownies
Espresso Brownies take brownies to another level! These fudgy brownies feature a coffee-flavored cream layer and are finished off with chocolate ganache. What is not to love? These brownies from scratch have three layers and are so worth the extra effort. If you are a coffee lover, you’ll love this recipe!
Mint Chocolate Oreo Fudge Brownies
These ultimate brownies feature an incredibly dense, fudgy, and chewy brownie base stuffed with mint Oreos, topped with a layer of cool, creamy mint Oreo fudge, and finished with a layer of rich mint chocolate ganache.
Chocolate Whiskey Brownies
Chocolate whiskey brownies are fudgy, indulgent and the best boozy brownies you will ever make. These decadent homemade brownies are best served drizzled with caramel sauce and sprinkled with flaky sea salt.
Brown Sugar Brownies
These homemade easy brownies are chewy, fudgy and delicious! They are easy to make and only require a few basic ingredients.
Chocolate Fudge Dessert Recipes
Homemade Christmas Fudge Recipe
This yummy recipe for homemade fudge is a perfect Christmas treat! It has been passed down for generations in my family, and can be made with or without nuts.
Double Chocolate Fudge
Just 3-ingredients for this easy Dairy-Free Pizza Chicken Bake! A healthy dinner idea that’s gluten-free, allergy-free, low-carb keto, and with paleo options! Kids will love this chicken casserole recipe that can be customized with homemade marinara sauce and any pizza toppings you want!
Chocolate Fudge Without Condensed Milk
This classic chocolate fudge is wonderfully rich, dense, crumbly and melts in the mouth. It is made using milk and sugar rather than condensed milk.
Chocolate Cookie Dessert Recipes
Brownie cookies
Perfectly crinkle top and thick, rich, fudgy center is what makes this the ultimate cookie for brownie and chocolate lovers! Salt sprinkled on top balances the sweetness.
Easy Chewy Milk Chocolate Fudge Cookies
Half cookie, half brownie. This recipe for milk chocolate fudge cookies is soft, chewy, and very chocolatey. Although the cookie dough is very simple and easy to make, the results are incredibly impressive and tasty. Perfect for when you need a quick but delicious cookie recipe.
Amazingly Delicious Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
These delicious pumpkin chocolate chip cookies make for a perfect dessert or treat in the cooler months of autumn and winter! If you like pumpkin pie and chocolate, you’ll love these cookies! They taste great either hot from the oven or even cold from the refrigerator.
Air Fryer Brownie Mix Cookies
Air Fryer Brownie Mix Cookies are easy to make with just 5 simple ingredients. Making cookies from brownie mix gives you everything you love about decadent chocolate brownies, but in cookie form! Perfect for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or Easter holidays.
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
These cookies are thick, with crispy golden brown edges, gooey chocolatey centres, bursting with giant dark chocolate chunks and finished with Maldon sea salt for a sweet and salty finish.
Dairy-Free Pizza Chicken Bake (Gluten-Free, Allergy-Free, Keto)
Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies are the best soft and thick chocolate cookies filled with melted chocolate chunks and gooey marshmallows.
Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies
These Chocolate Cherry Thumbprint Cookies are a delicious twist on a classic recipe made with chocolate dough, filled with cherry pie filling, and more chocolate drizzle on top. Perfect for a cookie exchange, holiday treat, or an anytime sweet dessert!
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies that are chewy and fudgy and oh-so irresistible! This easy recipe uses cocoa powder and loads of chocolate chips to make the best chocolatey cookies!
Chocolate Cake Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Lava Cake
This easy chocolate lava cake is based on the French moelleux au chocolat, and is the perfect dessert for two! Plus, check out my secret for an extra chocolatey center!
Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake
This Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe is delicious! Full of rich, chocolate flavor with a butter and pecan chocolate frosting that is fantastic.
Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake
Chocolate fudge cake is a super easy, decadent, bundt cake recipe that starts with a box of cake mix and ends up as a delicious, moist, chocolate cake topped in a fudgy chocolate ganache frosting.
Chocolate Crêpe Cake with Bourbon
This Chocolate Crêpe Cake with Bourbon is a Southern take on the classic French Gâteau Mille Crêpes. This step-by-step tutorial will walk you through making this easy no-bake cake!
Chocolate Strawberry Mousse Cake
Chocolate-covered strawberries are turned into an epic, indulgent, and truly dreamy cake. This beautiful, showstopping cake features a rich, moist, fudgy brownie base topped with layers of luscious chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla bean honey mousses and finished with chocolate ganache and fresh strawberries.
Almond Flour Chocolate Cake
This rich and decadent Almond Flour Chocolate Cake is the perfect dessert for birthdays, Valentine’s Day, or any special occasion! Plus, it’s made with good for you ingredients like monkfruit, unsweetened applesauce, and cacao powder.
Crockpot Chocolate Lava Cake
Chocolate Lovers, need a decadent, loved by the whole family and minimal effort dessert? Then this easy Crockpot Lava Cake, made with a few everyday ingredients, is your best bet.
Kladdkaka – Gooey Chocolate Cake
A perfectly indulgent dessert, this six ingredient Swedish gooey chocolate cake has chewy edges & soft rich, gooey centre and takes just 25 minutes to make!
Moist Chocolate Cream Cake
This super Moist Chocolate Cream Cake has a rich, deep chocolate flavor and is incredibly easy to make with just a few ingredients. Whether you are making it for a special occasion or an afternoon tea party, this is the perfect recipe for you!
Chocolate Victoria Sponge Cake
The classic cakes are always the best, like this easy to cook Chocolate Victoria Sponge Cake. How to make a simple chocolate cake mix using basic ingredients of butter, sugar, eggs, flour and cocoa powder.
Dark Chocolate S’mores Cake
Dark Chocolate S’mores Cake is a decadent dessert that is perfect for a special occasion. Marshmallows & dark chocolate are perfect together.
Chocolate Orange Cake
This Chocolate Orange Cake is deliciously moist, packed with citrusy orange and rich chocolate flavor, and topped with the easiest chocolate orange ganache.
Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe
Rich delicious molten chocolate lava cakes are a chocolate lovers dream. Easy to make and ready in about 30 minutes for a special treat!
Chocolate Mocha Poke Cake
You start with a delicious chocolate cake base, add a creamy layer of coffee-flavored pudding, and top it all off with fresh whipped cream and dark chocolate shavings.
Chocolate Mousse Cake
Easy chocolate mousse cake recipe makes a moist dark chocolate cake that’s topped with a simple, easy chocolate mousse. Easy homemade cake recipe that always gets rave reviews!
Eclair Cake (Ekpa Pasta)
This delicious cake is a great alternative to sponge-based cakes if you are after something different yet very impressive.
Chocolate Cupcake Dessert Recipes
Easy Dessert Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes
These cupcakes are absolutely fluffy, chocolatey, and fruity. It’s one of the softest cakes you will ever eat
Death By Chocolate Cupcakes
These Death By Chocolate Cupcakes are moist, fudgy, and topped with the fluffiest chocolate ganache buttercream. Not for the faint of heart, these fancy dark chocolate cupcakes are packed with dark chocolate flavor and topped with dark chocolate pieces, a dark chocolate truffle, and chocolate sprinkles.
Chocolate Greek Yogurt Cupcakes
Make the best Chocolate Greek Yogurt Cupcakes from scratch with this easy recipe! These moist, delicious, decadent cupcakes are perfect for chocolate lovers and better than anything out of a box!
Orange Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate orange cupcake recipe. Soft choc-orange cupcakes topped with creamy chocolate and orange buttercream frosting.
Chocolate Pie Dessert Recipes
No-Bake Salted Caramel Chocolate Pie Recipe
If you’re serving guests or need to bring a dessert to a party, this one is pretty impressive — especially when you consider how easy it is to make.
Chocolate Pie
If there ever were an official favorite ‘food,’ for Valentine’s Day, it would surely have to be rich and silky homemade Chocolate Pie.
Chocolate Trifle Dessert Recipes
Chocolate Trifle Recipe
A beautiful chocolate trifle is all you need for your next party or to give your family a memorable dessert.
Easy Death By Chocolate Trifle Recipe
Ready for the best chocolate dessert you have ever tasted? A dessert that will make any chocolate-lover swoon with happiness? Prepare yourself, because this is it.
Chocolate Tart Dessert Recipes
Decadent Chocolate Tart
This decadent chocolate tart is a combination of silky smooth chocolate poured into a chocolate graham cracker crust and topped with a glossy chocolate glaze to make a truly decadent dessert.
Chocolate Ganache And Raspberry Tart
This tart showcases the raspberry like no other, seductively mingling with soft chocolate ganache that has been heightened with a trifling glint of almond.
Chocolate Bar Dessert Recipes
Homemade Snickers Bars
Snickers candy with chewy nougat, rich caramel, crunchy peanuts, and chocolate are a classic. Making your Snickers bars at home is an easy no-bake recipe to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Triple Chocolate Coconut Bars
Triple Chocolate Coconut Bars combine multiple delicious dessert ingredients into one enticing dessert bar. Healthy? No. Amazing? Yes!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars are the magical marriage of peanut butter cookies, creamy peanut butter filling, and rich chocolate ganache topped with a sprinkle flaky sea salt.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
This delicious, quick, and easy chocolate chip cookie bar recipe is made with whole wheat flour, less butter and less sugar. Your kids will never know!
Chocolate Bark Dessert Recipes
Salted Chocolate Chili Crunch Bark
Salted. Chocolate. Chili. Crunch. It’s a perfectly tempered dark chocolate laced with smokey chili powder and crunchy quinoa. Quinoa? Yes! It adds a nice crunchy surprise in this chocolate and we top it all off with flaky sea salt and it’s a spiced match made in heaven!
Chocolate Pretzel Bark
Sweet, crunchy, and salty, this Chocolate Pretzel Bark is an easy, no-bake recipe you can bring to any gathering and please even the pickiest of eaters.
Chocolate Ice Cream Dessert Recipes
No-Churn Chocolate Ice Cream
Make rich and creamy homemade no-churn chocolate ice cream at home with just a few simple ingredients–no ice cream maker necessary!
Black Forest Ice Cream
Black Forest Ice Cream is the perfect combination of creamy chocolate ice cream, sweet dark cherries, and rich chocolate chunks. It mixes up in minutes and is ready to eat in just a few hours! One bite of this luscious chocolate cherry ice cream and you will be in heaven.
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