This holiday season make your desserts all about the chocolate with these 23 decadent treats. Celebrate the four most important food groups of the holidays – milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate with a bit of extra chocolate.
Forget the fruitcake and toss those boring sugar cookies. Instead let’s go on a sleigh ride through the land of chocolatey excess. These aren’t just treats; they’re the reason Santa has a round belly and why your New Year’s resolution will probably involve a gym!
Chocolate Lush
Chocolate Lush is your lazy-day dream dessert. It’s a no-bake, no-fuss pile-up of Oreos, peanut butter cheesecake, and chocolate pudding, topped with cool whip – because who said Christmas desserts had to be complicated?
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Andes Mint Cookies
Andes Mint Cookies: the holiday cookie for people who secretly buy mint chocolates for themselves. Soft, chocolatey, and finished with a melted mint – it’s like a tiny, edible, after-dinner mint, but way better.
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Chocolate Dump Cake
Chocolate Dump Cake is what happens when you let a chocoholic loose in the kitchen. It’s chocolate, with more chocolate, and then some M&Ms on top – because, well, it’s Christmas and more is more.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls are like tiny globes of “forget your diet” goodness. No baking required you just mix, roll, and dip into chocolate! Christmas diet plan, ruined.
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Cracker Barrel Coca Cola Cake
Cracker Barrel Coca Cola Cake is what you make when you want to impress your guests without admitting you’ve been to Cracker Barrel more times than you can count. It’s chocolate, it’s fudgy, and there’s soda in it – because why not?
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Chocolate Peppermint Cream Cookies
Chocolate Peppermint Cream Cookies are the cookies Santa really wants. Chocolate cookies are sandwiched with creamy filling and sprinkled with candy canes. These treats will keep the elves working overtime.
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Chocolate Chia Pudding
Chocolate Chia Pudding is for those who want to say, “I eat healthy,” while secretly indulging in chocolate. It’s got cherries, no dairy, and no refined sugar, but let’s be honest – it’s all about that chocolate.
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Haystack Cookies
Haystack Cookies are the perfect solution when you’ve got 10 minutes to make something for that holiday party you forgot about. Chocolate, peanut butter, and no oven required – because who’s got time for that?
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Homemade Chocolate Pudding
Homemade Chocolate Pudding is your ticket to childhood nostalgia without the weird skin on top. Ditch the box, go homemade, and watch people pretend they’re not going back for seconds.
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Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are like playing with your food, but in a socially acceptable way. Melted chocolate in the middle, candy cane sprinkles on top. It’s festive, it’s fun, and it’s way better than jam filled cookies.
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Chocolate Pumpkin Cake
Chocolate Pumpkin Cake is perfect for those who can’t decide between Halloween and Christmas. Chocolate and pumpkin are swirled together for when you’re feeling indecisive but still want cake.
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Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies are the Trojan horses of the cookie world. They look like regular cookies but surprise! There’s a cherry in there, hiding under frosting.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Trifle
Chocolate Peanut Butter Trifle is basically a giant, layered candy bar in a bowl. Layers of peanut butter and chocolate pudding, all topped off with whipped cream. Because ‘subtle’ and ‘Christmas’ never go together.
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Hot Chocolate Cookies
Hot Chocolate Cookies are loads of winter fun in a cookie. Hot cocoa mix, chocolate chips, marshmallows – it’s like a hot chocolate had a baby with a cookie, and we’re all invited to the christening.
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Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts
Chocolate Cake Mix Donuts are for when you want to pretend you’re a baking wizard but actually just know how to mix four things together. Decorate them for any holiday and watch them disappear faster than your New Year’s resolutions.
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Chocolate Caramel Cookies
Chocolate Caramel Cookies are what happens when chocolate cookies meet a caramel drizzle and decide to have a party. It’s a sticky, sweet, crunchy mess that you definitely want an invite to.
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Instant Pot Chocolate Cheesecake
Instant Pot Chocolate Cheesecake is perfect for those who get more joy from pressing buttons than actual baking. Rich, creamy, and it practically cooks itself – it’s like a Christmas miracle, but in cheesecake form.
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Chocolate Almond Fudge
Chocolate Almond Fudge is your four-ingredient shortcut to feeling like a kitchen genius. Whip it up, chill, and bask in the glory of making decadent Christmas fudge that didn’t come from a store.
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies are the undercover agents of cookies. They look cracked and innocent on the outside, but inside, it’s all gooey, fudgy brownie goodness.
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Chocolate Cherry Cake
Chocolate Cherry Cake is what you make when you want to impress but also want to watch Christmas movies instead of baking. Box mix, cherry pie filling, and your cake is ready to bake.
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Adorable Oreo Reindeer Cookies
Adorable Oreo Reindeer Cookies are what happens when you let your inner child loose with chocolate, pretzels, and candy. Dip, decorate, and delude yourself into thinking you won’t eat half of them before the guests arrive.
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Chocolate Oreo Pie
Chocolate Oreo Pie is a no-bake wonder that answers the important question, “How can I cram Oreos into a dessert in the most decadent way possible?” Cookie crust, chocolate mousse, more cookies all combine to make the pie that cookie dreams are made of.
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Ruby Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ruby Chocolate Chip Cookies are the fancy pants in the cookie jar. Ruby chocolate, pistachios, raspberries are all in one cookie. It’s like the cookies got dressed up for a night out on the town.
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