Dessert Recipes

From classic favorites to creative confections, explore our dessert recipe archive and bring a little sweetness to your day. There’s a dessert recipe for every season and occasion!

  • Chocolate Walnut Cookies

    Total Time: 1 hour 8 minutes

    These chocolate walnut cookies are rich, chewy, and coated in sugar for a classic crackled look. A little espresso powder enhances the chocolate flavor, while chopped walnuts add texture and crunch. You can swap in hazelnuts or pecans, or leave the nuts out altogether for a simple chocolate treat.

  • Chocolate Stout Cupcakes

    Total Time: 33 minutes

    Chocolate stout or coffee stout flavors these chocolate cupcakes, and they’re topped with an Irish cream frosting! These chocolate stout cupcakes will please everyone this St. Patrick’s Day!

  • Chocolate Sponge Cake

    Total Time: 50 minutes

    This chocolate sponge cake is light, airy, and delicately flavored with cocoa. It’s made with whipped egg whites for volume and structure, without the heaviness of butter-based cakes. Serve it simply with a dusting of powdered sugar or split and fill it with fruit preserves or whipped cream. You can also drizzle each slice with chocolate sauce for an elegant dessert that’s easy to prepare and naturally dairy-free.

  • Quick Homemade Chocolate Sauce (Ready in 8 Minutes)

    Total Time: 8 minutes

    This easy chocolate sauce is rich, smooth, and ready in just 8 minutes. Made with cocoa, sugar, milk, and vanilla, it’s the perfect topping for ice cream, pound cake, brownies, or even fresh fruit. Store it in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks and warm it before serving for the ultimate dessert drizzle.

  • Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies

    Total Time: 58 minutes

    A dab of bright red raspberry jam in the center makes these chocolate raspberry thumbprint cookies extra special! Roll them in chopped nuts or sugar, or leave them plain.

  • Chocolate Peanut Clusters

    Total Time: 10 minutes

    These peanut clusters are ridiculously easy, and they are incredibly delicious! Peanut butter, chocolate chips, peanuts, and almond bark are all you need!

  • Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes

    Total Time: 23 minutes

    Impress your friends and family with these fabulous chocolate molten lava cakes. The recipe is easier than you may think!

  • Chocolate Meringue Cookies (Gluten-Free)

    Total Time: 20 minutes

    These chocolate meringue cookies are made with just six simple ingredients — egg whites, sugar, melted chocolate, nuts, salt, and vanilla. They’re crisp on the outside, slightly chewy on the inside, and entirely flourless. The light texture and rich chocolate flavor make them a perfect sweet treat for any occasion.

  • Chocolate Icebox Cookies

    Total Time: 20 minutes

    These easy chocolate icebox cookies are an easy preparation and quick bake. The cookie dough can be shaped and frozen for another day. A good reason to double the recipe!

  • Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream

    Total Time: 7 hours 22 minutes

    Make this rich and creamy chocolate ice cream with or without chocolate chips or toasted pecans. Add some edible cookie dough or cookie crumbs!

  • Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge

    Total Time: 18 minutes

    Hazelnuts and Frangelico or bourbon flavor this fabulous chocolate fudge. Make a big batch or scale it down and chill it in a loaf pan.

  • Chocolate Glaze for Cakes, Brownies, and Pastry

    Total Time: 12 minutes

    This chocolate glaze firms up nicely to make a shiny chocolate finish for cakes, doughnuts, brownies, and eclairs or cream puffs.

  • Chocolate Coconut Oil Cake and Frosting (Vegan)

    Total Time: 45 minutes

    This fast and easy chocolate cake is the perfect dessert to satisfy a chocolate craving! Not only is it quick and easy—the cake and frosting are egg and dairy free!

  • Chocolate Chip Sablé Cookies

    Total Time: 3 hours 28 minutes

    French-style chocolate chip sablé cookies with a sparkly sugar crust and buttery, tender texture.

  • Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

    Total Time: 7 hours 20 minutes

    Enjoy this delicious chocolate chip ice cream. The cooked custard mixture makes a smooth and creamy vanilla ice cream base.

  • Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

    Total Time: 15 minutes

    This sweet and delicious chocolate chip cookie dough takes just minutes to make, and since it’s made without eggs, it’s perfectly safe to eat!

  • Chocolate Chip Cake

    Total Time: 42 minutes

    Moist, buttery chocolate chip cake loaded with chocolate and pecans—perfect for dessert or potlucks.

  • No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake

    Total Time: 4 hours 20 minutes

    A combination of semisweet chocolate, cream cheese, and whipped topping make this no-bake chocolate pie a snap to fix and a joy to eat!

  • Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

    Total Time: 10 minutes

    Smooth, velvety, and wonderfully decadent, our chocolate buttercream frosting is a luscious cake topping perfect for any occasion!