12 Delicious Dessert Recipes With Chocolate For You

These amazing dessert recipes with chocolate make for an amazing meal with great flavors and the goodness of chocolate. There is a large variety of foods that use chocolate, with creativity often coming to the fore in forms and styles that are nothing short of amazing. 

Well, then let’s get started and take a look at some ideas and inspiration where wondrous dessert recipes employ chocolate.

Amazing Chocolate Based Dessert Recipes

1. Chocolate Raspberry Torte Brownies

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Photo by Kierste Wade

This recipe looks amazing and tastes great, but it’s remarkably easy to put together. The heart of this recipe comes from layers of brownie accompanied by some whipping cream, and topped with raspberries. It has quite the gourmet look and a little bit of skill with styling goes a long way.

I like how the presentation basically changes the feel of the recipe. I mean, brownies with cream are always a welcome combination. 

But the careful presentation makes it look like something more refined and gourmet. Of course, it’s not all for show, the layering of cream and brownies also helps with better flavoring and texture.

2. Hedgehog Slice

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Photo by Alexandra Cook

Contrary to its name, this hedgehog slice is actually quite smooth! This is a no-bake chocolate dessert that you can make gluten-free by a small change in the ingredients. Those ingredients would be biscuits! The key ingredients here are chocolate, crushed biscuits, and coconut. It’s so simple and has a wondrous mouthfeel.

Keep in mind, if you intend to make the recipe gluten-free, you’ll have to be careful about the choice of biscuits. Pick gluten-free biscuits, but remember to choose a plain, sweet biscuit that can go along with other ingredients in the recipe.

3. Easy Chocolate Mousse Cake

Would anyone think that it would be easy to make a chocolate mousse cake? Well, this recipe proves that it is! Keep in mind, it’s easy, but it’s still not without skill.

Though the recipe uses only a few ingredients, you’ll still need to know your way around them to get the best results, like the one we see in the photo here.

And that’s to be expected, perfection doesn’t come without skill and practice! That said, the recipe is simple enough that you could get a pretty decent result and a good looking cake with your first try!

4. No Bake Coconut Chocolate Bars

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Photo by Karly

These chocolate bars look absolutely yum! Shredded coconut and chocolate play the leading roles in this recipe, but you also get additional ingredients like milk, oats, butter, and a few others. The result is this wonderful treat with a lovely texture, taste, and even some nutritious goodness.

Chocolate and shredded coconut are interesting ingredients with their different texture and taste, but they go along so well. For this recipe, the presence of oats too helps with better management of the texture, so you get a rather interesting mouthfeel combination.

5. Cherry Chocolate Cake

A wondrously moist and delicious chocolate cake, this one has matching flavors with cherry to make things go around. 

The whipped cream with the literal cherry on top looks absolutely divine and even serves its purpose for the texture and flavor of this cake. What makes it better is the simplicity of making this cake and the recipe that’s easy to follow.

The ease of the recipe, however, doesn’t mean that this cake misses nuance. Its flavors are remarkably complex. The chocolate cake with tart cherry filling and the literal cherry on top is a sight to behold.

6. French Silk Pie Cookies

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Photo by Jackie Thesing

One could fall in love just looking at these cookies and taking a bite would be like falling in love. The base here is soft, with a texture like brownies. The topping of chocolate cream and whipped cream takes things further for a lovely mouthfeel and delicious dessert.

The super soft brownie and cream combination is dazzling. That the recipe chose to go along with chocolate cream shows how cleanly it manages its textures and flavors. Regular cream would probably be just fine, but chocolate cream takes the whole thing up a notch.

7. Easy Chocolate Pudding Cake

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Photo by Marly McMillen

Rich in taste and with a soft gooey texture, this chocolate pudding cake is bound to win hearts and taste buds. This dessert follows an easy recipe, making it suitable even for beginners or those who want to whip up a dessert without putting in too much of an effort.

The presentation could probably be better, but then again, this is chocolate pudding topped with fudgy chocolate cake. So, it doesn’t quite give itself to the neat layerings we have sometimes come to expect from food pictures. Yet, when you look at one and enjoy it, that could be love at first bite!

8. No-Bake Chocolate Cheesecake

This amazing recipe puts its ingredients to good use to create a chocolate dessert you can love. It has chocolate whipped cream at top, a delicious crust made with a liberal use of Oreo crackers, and a cheesecake-style filling with unsweetened cocoa powder and black cocoa powder. And it doesn’t need baking, making things simpler.

The layering you see in the recipe image is quite stunning, especially when you consider there’s no baking involved. Everything from the Oreo base to the creamy top looks surprisingly well-managed and delicious.

9. This Chocolate Cheesecake

This recipe combines the goodness of cheesecake with chocolate. Now that sounds like an absolute blast! It handles things in a more classic way, using a good variety of ingredients and some baking action. And it succeeds with flying colors. The texture, taste, and richness of this dessert is without reproach. 

Many cheesecake recipes choose to do away with baking and we love them. However, by embracing the conventional cheesecake baking, this one brings on the classic texture and flavor that’s the heart of the cheesecake. And it kind of shows with how clean and fluffy the cheesecake here looks.

10. A Chocolate Cake Roll

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Photo by @hollysbakeblog

The richness of chocolate works wonders with the creamy filling of this chocolate cake roll to deliver a lovely recipe. The cake is coated in ganache for that wonderful look, texture, and the overall visual appeal. Overall, the recipe is picture-perfect and utterly enjoyable – exactly as a dessert should be!

The light and fluffy cake with a wonderful texture and rich chocolate flavor is a treat. The roll styling also helps with the presentation and styling, giving you more options on how to serve or enjoy this cake. 

11. Chocolate Mousse Cake

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Photo by @recipesofholly

The chocolate mouse cake is a classic and beloved dessert. It really manages to bring out the richness of chocolate and pairs it rather well with the goodness and texture of a cake. Pretty much a textbook example of what a chocolate cake should feel like.

I particularly like the rich styling this cake shows and how well it translates to visual goodness. It helps that the recipe is fairly versatile and can be modified to suit individual requirements.

Besides, this cake also works for make-ahead preparations. Stored right, the mousse is good for use for several days. The cake rounds can actually last longer, making it easy to whip up this mousse cake in minutes.

12. No-Bake Chocolate Nutella Cups

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Photo by Liz

Simple as they are delicious, these no-bake chocolate nutella cups are very impressive. Of course, the conventional elements like taste, texture, and visual styling make these lovable. But the recipe is absolutely genius.

The simple recipe uses only two ingredients – nutella and chocolate melts. There’s no need for baking or a lot of work, so you can have these cups ready in a jiffy. 

And those are two of everyone’s favorite ingredients! Nutella and chocolate is a decadently delicious combination that speaks of indulgence. If taste buds had an imagination, they’d dream of this combination.