There’s no better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with rich, decadent chocolate desserts. Every bite feels like pure indulgence!
Chocolate and Valentine's Day just go together, don't they?
Whether you’re planning a romantic dinner, hosting a Valentine’s get-together, or simply treating yourself, these irresistible chocolate treats are sure to satisfy every sweet tooth. From fudgy brownies that melt in your mouth to fluffy chocolate cakes layered with luscious frosting, each dessert is crafted to bring out the deep, velvety essence of chocolate. Cookies, cupcakes, bars, and more—there’s a treat here for every chocolate lover!
But Wait. . .There's More!
Imagine biting into a warm, gooey brownie, its rich cocoa flavor enhanced by a hint of espresso, or savoring a chocolate cake dripping with ganache and chocolate candies on top.
Perhaps you prefer chocolate cookies, fluffy chocolate mousse, or a slice of fudgy pecan pie. No matter your craving, these sinfully delicious chocolate desserts will make your Valentine’s Day celebration extra sweet. So preheat your oven, grab your favorite mixing bowl, and get ready to whip up some chocolate magic this Valentine's Day!
Chocolate Valentine's Desserts
What Are You Waiting For? Pick out your favorite chocolate dessert to share with your loved one this Valentine's Day!
BROWNIES
Few desserts satisfy a chocolate craving like a rich, fudgy brownie, with its deep cocoa flavor and irresistibly chewy texture. Whether you love classic chocolate chip-studded brownies, indulgent cheesecake swirls, or over-the-top loaded bars, this collection has something for every brownie lover!
If you're looking for a delicious brownie recipe that tastes homemade (but isn't) this is the post for you! Stay tuned for an easy, fabulous option that will come together in minutes.
These Cake Mix Brownies are incredibly fudgy, chewy, and packed with rich chocolate flavor, making them the easiest way to whip up decadent brownies with just a few simple ingredients!
These Doctored Brownies with Mint Chocolate take a simple brownie mix to the next level with rich, fudgy texture and layers of cool, creamy mint chocolate, creating an irresistible dessert perfect for mint-chocolate lovers!
These Easy German Chocolate Brownies start with a rich, fudgy brownie base and are topped with a gooey coconut pecan frosting, creating a decadent, chocolatey twist on the classic German chocolate cake!
These Grasshopper Brownies from Scratch feature a rich, fudgy chocolate brownie base topped with a cool, creamy mint layer and luscious chocolate to create the ultimate mint-chocolate indulgence!
These Easy Chocolate Chip Brookies combine chewy chocolate chip cookies and rich, fudgy brownies into one irresistible dessert, giving you the best of both worlds in every bite!
CHOCOLATE CAKES
Choose from some of our favorite chocolate cakes for your Valentine's Day gathering!
This Best Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake is incredibly moist, rich, and velvety, with the secret ingredient—mayonnaise—giving it a tender crumb and deep, decadent chocolate flavor that melts in your mouth!
If you're looking for the ultimate chocolate cake, this is it! Decadent, rich, delicious! The perfect Valentine's Cake! Just choose chocolates that make sense to the season, like heart-shaped chocolates, and so on.
This Texas Sheet Cake is a rich, ultra-moist chocolate cake baked in a large sheet pan and topped with a warm, pour-over fudgy icing, creating a buttery, melt-in-your-mouth Southern classic perfect for feeding a crowd!
This Chocolate Pound Cake with Sour Cream is rich, dense, and ultra-moist, with a deep cocoa flavor enhanced by creamy sour cream, making it the perfect indulgent treat for any chocolate lover!
This Easy Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake is rich, moist, and decadently chocolaty, made with simple gluten-free ingredients for a soft, tender crumb that no one will guess is gluten-free!
This Triple Chocolate Coffee Cake is a moist, tender cake, packed with rich cocoa, melty chocolate chips, and a luscious chocolate drizzle, perfect for pairing with your morning coffee or enjoying as an indulgent dessert!
This Screwball Cake is a unique, ultra-moist chocolate cake featuring a rich cocoa flavor and topped with a sweet, glossy glaze frosting for the perfect old-fashioned treat!
This Black Forest Icebox Cake is a rich, creamy, and effortlessly indulgent treat perfect for any occasion!
This German Chocolate Pound Cake is rich, dense, and packed with deep chocolate flavor, featuring a surprise swirl of canned coconut-pecan frosting inside, making every bite moist, gooey, and utterly irresistible!
This Easy Black Forest Bundt Cake starts with a doctored cake mix and is loaded with rich chocolate flavor, luscious cherry pie filling, and a moist, tender crumb, making it an effortless yet indulgent dessert! Perfect for Valentine's Day!
his Ultimate Coca-Cola Cake is a rich, ultra-moist chocolate cake made from scratch, infused with real Coca-Cola for a deep flavor and tender crumb, then topped with a warm, fudgy pour-over icing for the perfect Southern classic!
This Earthquake Cake is a rich and gooey German chocolate upside-down cake, layered with coconut, pecans, and swirls of sweet cream cheese, creating a deliciously messy, ultra-indulgent dessert that "cracks" as it bakes!
This Oreo Dirt Cake is a creamy, no-bake dessert featuring layers of rich chocolate pudding, fluffy whipped topping, and crushed Oreo cookies, creating a fun and indulgent treat that looks just like chocolatey “dirt”! Change up the color of your flowers for Valentine's Day!
This Traditional German Chocolate Cake is a light and tender chocolate cake layered with rich, buttery coconut pecan frosting, creating the perfect balance of sweet, nutty, and chocolaty goodness in every bite!
This Chocolate Ganache is a luxuriously smooth and glossy mixture of rich chocolate and heavy cream, perfect for drizzling, dipping, or spreading over cakes, cupcakes, and desserts for an irresistibly decadent finish!
This Red Velvet Cake is a soft, buttery classic with a hint of cocoa, a vibrant red hue, and a moist, tender crumb, all topped with luxuriously creamy cream cheese frosting for the ultimate indulgence! The ideal dessert for Valentine's Day!
CHOCOLATE COOKIES
Are you a cookie lover? Great! We've got a plethora of chocolate cookies, perfect for Valentine's Day!
These Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with rich, nutty brown butter, giving them an incredible depth of flavor, a chewy center, crisp edges, and pools of melty chocolate in every bite!
These Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, fluffy, and incredibly easy to make, using a boxed cake mix for a quick shortcut while delivering classic, bakery-style flavor with melty chocolate chips in every bite!
These Simple Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with rich cocoa and creamy peanut butter, creating the perfect balance of sweet, nutty, and chocolatey goodness in every bite!
These Double Mint Chocolate Cookies are rich, fudgy, and packed with refreshing mint flavor, featuring melty chocolate chips and cool mint chips for the ultimate chocolate-mint lover’s treat! Perfect for Valentine's Day!
These German Chocolate Sandwich Cookies feature soft, chewy chocolate cookies filled with a rich, gooey coconut pecan frosting, creating a decadent handheld version of the classic cake!
These Red Velvet Cookies are soft, chewy, and bursting with a hint of cocoa, featuring a vibrant red hue and rich, buttery flavor, perfect for any occasion—especially Valentine’s Day!
These Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies start with a doctored cake mix for an easy shortcut, combining zesty orange flavor with melty chocolate chips for a soft, chewy, and citrusy-sweet treat!
These No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are rich, fudgy, and packed with chewy oats and creamy peanut butter, making them an easy, classic treat with no oven required!
These Chocolate Sugar Crinkle Cookies are soft, chewy, and rich with deep cocoa flavor, featuring a beautifully crackled sugar-coated exterior that makes every bite melt in your mouth!
These Crumbl Copycat Dark Dream Cookies are ultra-rich, decadent dark chocolate cookies loaded with melty chocolate chips, delivering a soft, fudgy bite that’s every chocoholic’s dream!
These Double Dark Chocolate Cherry Cookies are rich, fudgy, and loaded with decadent dark chocolate and tart dried cherries, creating the perfect balance of sweetness and deep cocoa flavor in every bite!
These Double Chocolate Chip Cookies start with a cake mix for an easy shortcut, resulting in soft, chewy cookies packed with rich cocoa flavor and melty chocolate chips in every bite!
These Stuffed Brownie Cookies are thick, fudgy chocolate cookies with a surprise gooey brownie center, combining the best of both worlds for an ultra-indulgent, melt-in-your-mouth treat! Perfect for Valentine's Day!
CHOCOLATE CANDIES
My, oh my! Candies are all the rage at Valentine's and we've got you covered with some delicious options!
These Easy Almond Joy Truffles are rich, bite-sized treats made with a sweet coconut filling, crunchy almonds in a lovely coating, bringing the classic candy bar to life in a delicious homemade version!
These Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffles are rich, silky, and bursting with bold raspberry flavor, featuring a smooth dark chocolate ganache center infused with raspberry and coated in a luscious cocoa powder shell!
These Valentine Oreo Truffles are rich, creamy, and coated in smooth chocolate, featuring a crushed Oreo and cream cheese filling, then decorated with festive sprinkles for the perfect Valentine's Day treat!
These Easy Red Velvet Truffles are rich, creamy, and coated in smooth white or dark chocolate, featuring a moist red velvet cake and cream cheese filling, making them the perfect bite-sized Valentine’s Day treat!
These Easy Chocolate Coconut Balls are rich, chewy, and packed with sweet coconut, coated in smooth, decadent chocolate for a simple no-bake treat that tastes just like a Mounds bar!
This Simple Canned Frosting Fudge is rich, creamy, and incredibly easy to make, using just canned frosting and melted chocolate chips for a quick, foolproof treat that melts in your mouth!
These Easy Homemade Turtles Candy feature crunchy pecans, gooey caramel, and smooth melted chocolate, creating a simple yet decadent treat that’s perfect for gifting or indulging!
This 3-Ingredient Fudge is rich, creamy, and irresistibly smooth, made with just three easy ingredients for the easiest, most decadent treat ever!
OTHER CHOCOLATE DESSERTS
This is a great list of chocolate desserts, perfect for your romantic dinner.
If you love the flavors found in a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup—peanut butter and chocolate, with a bit of a crispy texture, you’re going to absolutely flip over these simple treats!
If you love light, crisp cream horns but you’re in the mood for chocolate, this is the recipe for you! You’re going to flip over these simple chocolate cream horns!
If you love the light, crisp texture of a flaky puff pastry but you’re also a fan of that creamy Nutella goodness, you’re going to flip over this simple recipe! Perfect for Valentine's Day!
These Easy Almond Joy Bars start with a doctored cake mix and are layered with gooey coconut, crunchy almonds, and rich chocolate, bringing the classic candy bar to life in an irresistible dessert!
This Delicious Mint Oreo Trifle is a layered dessert masterpiece, featuring crushed Mint Oreos, creamy chocolate pudding, fluffy whipped topping, and a hint of cool mint flavor, making every spoonful an indulgent treat! Perfect for Valentine's Day!
That’s it for this post, friends! I hope you enjoyed these delicious Valentine's Day recipes.
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About the Author
Janice Thompson is an author, baker, and all-around mischief maker! She has overcome a host of baking catastrophes, including a toppled wedding cake, to learn more about the baking process. Janice has published over 165 books for the Christian market but particularly enjoys writing recipes and baking devotions. To learn more about Janice or to drop her a note, visit her About the Author page.