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I’ve used my experience as a professional pastry chef, and an unabashed chocoholic, to collect Easy Chocolate Desserts for Valentine’s Day or any day! They are grouped into categories, so you can find your new favorite chocolate dessert recipes quickly and easily!
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Why these chocolate desserts taste better than the rest:
- Created by a seasoned pastry chef. These recipes are all crafted or perfected by a professional pastry chef to ensure professional-quality texture and flavor in every bite.
- Easy categories for easy decision-making. We’ve subdivided our easiest and favorite chocolate desserts into sections. No guesswork, no fuss, just chocolate!
- A chocolate collection to make you swoon. I’ve made sure that we have a large variety of flavors, textures, and types in this list. There are indulgent cakes, light mousses, easy cookies—and everything in between!
Frequently Asked Questions
I often serve chocolate desserts with a simple swoosh of lightly sweetened whipped cream, but a crème fraiche whipped cream would also be a nice pairing. It would be best to avoid any garnish adding additional sweetness like caramel, but a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream or crème anglaise would be a welcome addition! The creaminess of the dairy mellows any bitterness and highlights the chocolate notes.
First, consider the balance of flavors, sweetness and texture. Desserts don’t have to be complicated to be impressive. Look no further than my Chocolate Pudding Recipe. Call it a pot de crème to be fancy! My pastry chef secret is that presentation is everything. Add a few edible flowers or beautifully cut fruit for color and contrast. Check out my list of Valentine’s Day Desserts for romance all year long!
The type of chocolate chips I buy depends on how sweet I want the dessert to be! I often like to mix and play with the proportions of different varieties of chocolate. Personally, I want them to be just sweet enough with a high quality texture. Try to find chocolates with the least amount of additives, as they sometimes impact taste and mouthfeel. I really love bittersweet chocolate chips because they balance some of the sweetness in desserts. They are also extra melty and will give you that melted chocolate pull that we live for!
Easy Chocolate Truffles
Red roses, effortless elegance, and these chocolate classics. Leave a lasting impression on your loved-one, without spending almost any time in the kitchen!
Four ingredients, one whisk about the bowl and a little patience bring you these balanced Nutella truffles. The dark chocolate and a pinch of kosher salt temper the sweetness of the Nutella without dampening the flavor! These are an easier hazelnut hit than my chewy Nutella Cookies. Though, no one is saying you can’t have both.
Nutella Truffles
These Chocolate Bourbon Truffles have a creamy bourbon dark chocolate center enrobed in perfectly tempered dark chocolate. Roll them in powdered sugar, cocoa powder and drizzle with chocolate for a variety!
Chocolate Bourbon Truffles
Chocolate Mousse Recipes
Mousse is light, fluffy, and unforgettable! It’s also just plain easy.
White Chocolate Raspberry Mousse is a simple dessert that looks elegant and sophisticated. You can make it in one large bowl or layer it into individual dishes, like I did, for a light end to a meal. Only make this recipe if you want to be known around town as a badass in the kitchen. As in, “Oh this? I just whipped this up this afternoon.”
White Chocolate Raspberry Mousse
My chocolate mousse recipe makes an easy dark Black Forest Mousse swirled with a kirsch cherry sauce. An unsweetened whipped cream tops it off for the perfect finish!
Chocolate Mousse Recipe
No Bake Desserts
Need an easy chocolate dessert to make without an oven? These chef-developed, no-bake desserts are either stovetop, microwave, freezer, or assembly-only!
My friends can’t get enough of this Salted Chocolate Cherry Pistachio Pecan Bark! Salty roasted pistachios, crunchy toasted pecans, tart cherries, sweet raisins, smooth creamy dark chocolate and crunchy flakes of fleur de sel. Instead of the lengthy process of tempering chocolate by hand, I do it in the microwave. So much easier and unspeakably fast!
Salted Chocolate Cherry Pistachio Pecan Bark
These No Bake Chocolate Cherry Brandy Balls are the easiest cookie you’ll ever make, and you don’t even have to use the oven! You can stir all the ingredients together in one bowl, scoop, and refrigerate overnight. The flavors meld into one boozy, chocolate treat!
No Bake Chocolate Cherry Brandy Balls
My Chocolate Pudding Recipe is an easy, soulful, no bake dessert that is the perfect base to garnish with your favorite toppings – Oreos, edible flowers, whipped cream…but it is delicious just on its own. It’s entirely made on the stovetop!
Chocolate Pudding Recipe
The Best Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe is a bold claim, but it is equally matched by the bold chocolate flavor of this custard-based ice cream. It’s creamy and rich, decadently sweet, and it will make any chocolate lover swoon.
The Best Chocolate Ice Cream
My Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix tastes rich and deeply chocolaty. Serve it in your favorite mug for an experience even easier than store-bought packets! IMO homemade marshmallows are a must-have, unless you are a whipped cream on hot cocoa person. In that case, you go on with your bad self!
Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
One Bowl Desserts
Sometimes the stress of impending clean-up feels like it saps all the joy from cooking. That’s a conundrum these one bowl chocolate desserts solve—less clean up, same degree of delicious! These one bowl easy chocolate dessert recipes come together in no time and keep your kitchen clean.
Nothing says, “I love you” quite like a One Bowl Chocolate Layer Cake. No one has to know that you only dirtied one bowl! Or that it only took an hour! If you want to frost it with a can of store-bought frosting rather than Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, that’ll be our little secret too!
One Bowl Chocolate Cake
My Mom always made Chocolate Crinkle Cookies from a pantry cake mix for my birthday, and they were darn good. Sometimes I even mix in crushed candy canes around the holidays! Simple and delicious, these cookies are a must! Serve them with Crème Anglaise for the easiest end to any meal.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Truly epic AND made in one bowl, these deeply chocolatey One Bowl Brownies are chewy, fudgy brownies. I’ve perfected this recipe to have a perfectly flaked top and a chewy interior! Sprinkle them with some flaky sea salt and a scoop of Vanilla Ice-Cream, and wait for the accolades to flood in.
One Bowl Brownie
Chocolate Fudge Sauce is the easiest way to dress up store-bought ice cream, cakes or fruit. Just like caramel sauce, it can be made weeks in advance for a last minute dessert fix! Pour this rich fudge sauce onto any treat {like maybe this chocolate chip cheesecake…} and you have the quickest chocolate dessert on the planet.
Chocolate Fudge Sauce
Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache
The best Chocolate Cupcakes are a double chocolate cake, filled with a German’s chocolate ganache and topped with a decadent chocolate butter cream. They certainly bring big BOLD chocolate flavors! Steal the coconut-pecan frosting off my German chocolate cupcakes for an easy variation.
Chocolate Filled Cupcakes
Easy Chocolate Cookie Recipes
You’re moments away from hassle-free cookies with gooey chocolate in every bite! With easy-to-follow instructions, these are fun cookie recipes for you and the kids to make together.
You will know where the chocolate is at all times in these Double Chocolate Chip Cookies. Present and accounted for, that is! In every bite, melting on your tongue. Like a warm bath of chocolate heaven.
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Brownie Cookies are rich, chewy, and have the elusive flaky brownie top! Three types of chocolate combine to cure even the most intense chocolate craving. And you don’t even need to chill the dough! Add some colorful sprinkles on top, depending on the occasion.
Brownie Cookies
Measure, mix, shape and put these cookies straight in the oven. These Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies bake thick and chewy without all the fuss. Sandwich these around the Chocolate Buttercream Frosting for a full on fantasy!.
Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
My favorite Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies magically have the texture of a classic shortbread cookie while remaining soft and moist. A sweet brown sugar vanilla dough is marbled with semi-sweet chocolate chips for a chocolatey treat you can dip in coffee or tea!
Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
One of the most popular recipes on CLF, these Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies are thick and chewy with a flavor that will blow you away! The cream cheese keeps these cookies incredibly soft and tender and adds just a hint of tang.
Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Recipes
Preheat your oven, all you chocolate peanut butter fanatics! Chocolate’s match made in heaven has arrived.
This Peanut Butter Skillet Cookie is bomb, and you can prep it in under 20 minutes. You don’t have to even chill the cookie dough! Mix it full of chocolate chunks, press it into your favorite skillet, and then bake that baby until it’s soft, chewy cookie perfection.
Peanut Butter Skillet Cookie
But seriously, these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies? You know what I love about these cookies other than the chewy texture, peanut butter chocolate flavor magic, and the hint of cinnamon? The fact that you don’t need to chill the dough so prep is under 20 minutes. Read: instant gratification.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Because a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie just isn’t enough peanut butter sometimes, so I folded in some mini Reese’s peanut butter cups and Reese’s chips into these Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies! Soft, chewy, and more peanut butter and chocolate flavor than you thought possible.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies
Satiate your most intense chocolate desires with this quick easy chocolate pie! It has a fudge brownie-like texture complete with a crackly top. Add ½ cup of your favorite brand of peanut butter and make it a chocolate peanut butter pie! A bit of secret espresso powder enhances the flavor of the chocolate, making this decadent pie taste even more chocolatey than you’ve ever tasted before!
