610 chocolate desert recipes

Scotch shortbread balls dipped in fudgy chocolate frosting. Buttery, sandy crumb with a glossy chocolate cap. Holiday cookie tin essential.

No-bake marshmallow chip clusters bind peanuts, raisins, pretzels, and chocolate chips with melted marshmallow into sweet-salty haystacks. Stovetop dessert ready in under 90 minutes.

Mother's Oh and Ah! cake is a vintage red velvet-style chocolate sour cream cake with deep cocoa flavor and a tender crumb. Cake flour and sour cream make it pillow-soft. A drop of red food coloring gives it that signature reddish hue.

No-bake blueberry white chocolate cheese pie with a toasted hazelnut crust. Piped cream cheese filling, melted white chocolate, and a heap of fresh berries.

White chocolate glazed anisette biscotti with toasted hazelnuts, crushed star anise, and almond extract. Crisp twice-baked Italian cookies with a creamy sweet glaze.

Rich, fudgy brownies made with real unsweetened chocolate, butter, and pecans, topped with a homemade chocolate icing. Baked in a jelly-roll pan for thin, chewy squares.

Palm Beach pineapple squares: a chocolate walnut cake base topped with a lemon-scented pineapple layer, baked together into one tropical dessert bar.

Lincoln log cookies shaped from cocoa-chocolate chip dough into two-inch logs, then drizzled with white and chocolate icing stripes. A fun, chocolatey bake for kids and adults.

Quick chocolate macaroons with just four ingredients: unsweetened chocolate, shredded coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla. Fudgy, chewy coconut cookies baked in 30 minutes flat.

Frozen chocolate peanut butter mousse cake shaped in a tilted loaf pan to form a dramatic triangular cross-section. A restaurant-style showstopper dessert.

Authentic Danish pastry (Dansk Wienerbrod) dough: laminated yeast pastry rolled and folded multiple times to create flaky, buttery layers. The base recipe for Cocks' Combs, Spandauers, Cremeboller, and every other classic Danish bakery treat.

Chocolate yogurt cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust with semi-sweet chocolate in the filling and a glossy chocolate glaze on top. Baked in a water bath for a crack-free, silky texture.

Three-layer chocolate mint cake with a green mint buttercream center and glossy chocolate ganache topping. Rich, fudgy, and seriously refreshing.

Layered pudding cake with a nutty oat crust, cream cheese layer, vanilla and chocolate pudding, and whipped cream topping. A no-bake icebox dessert.

Peanut butter swirl ice cream cake with a crushed Oreo crust, chocolate wafer cookies, and hot fudge topping. No-bake, freezer-set, and ridiculously impressive for parties.

Flourless chocolate Chambord cake: a dense, fudgy dark chocolate cake spiked with black raspberry liqueur. Gluten-free dessert for Valentine's Day, dinner parties, or anytime indulgence.