Mother's Day

41 Chocolate Desserts, Cookies, and Treats for Mother's Day

If your mom's a confirmed chocolate lover, then you know what you have to do.
41 Easy and Impressive Chocolate Desserts for Mother's Day
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    Salted Caramel–Chocolate Tart

    A chocolate tart shell filled with a soft-but-stable caramel filling and swoops of chocolate ganache is the kind of dessert romantic dreams are made of.

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    Chocolate Macaroon Cake

    This is a cake version of chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons. It's infused with nutty toasted almonds, but you can sub in whatever nut Mom likes best.

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    Giant Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup

    This homemade version of chocolate–peanut butter candy cups has the wow factor you're after for a stunning—but easy to pull off—Mother's Day dessert.

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    Hot Cocoa Cake

    This versatile cake can be eaten in the morning or as an afternoon snack, and also makes a great dessert after dinner. We enjoy it warm, served with lots of chocolate sauce and whipped cream. Fresh raspberries, whole or as a sauce, are also a nice addition. And of course it’s great with an actual cup of hot cocoa.

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    Salted-Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Using salted butter and resting the dough are the secrets to these crowd-pleasing cookies that are equal parts chewy and crunchy.

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    Molten Chocolate Chunk Brownies

    Shards of rich, dark chocolate melt into the brownie batter as this dessert bakes, leaving behind pockets of luscious, gooey, molten deliciousness in every chewy bite.

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    Fallen Chocolate Cake

    This delicate but super-chocolatey cake has a tender, sweet heart, just like Mom does.

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    Frozen Mini S'mores Pies

    这些campfire-inspired对待富裕chocol结合起来ate, graham crackers, and marshmallows in a whole new way. Torch them just before serving to mimic toasted marshmallows.

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    Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake

    This classic back-of-the-box recipe makes decadent chocolate cake and delicious chocolate cupcakes with the silkiest chocolate frosting.

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    Nutella–Brown Butter Crispies

    Turn the kid's favorite treat into a decadent treat for Mom by first browning the butter and then stirring in a healthy dose of chocolate-hazelnut spread.

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    Sheet-Pan Brownie Thins

    These sheet-pan brownies don't require any special equipment, all you need is a standard 18x13" rimmed baking sheet and a bowl. The batter gets spread into a thin layer yielding rich, chewy (not cakey!) brownies that are about 1/4-inch thick—perfect for Mom to snack on today and throughout the week.

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    Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Lactation Cookies

    These hearty monster cookies have it all for nursing mamas.

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    Dark Chocolate Semifreddo

    If your mom always chooses chocolate ice cream, surprise her with this homemade version—you don't even need an ice cream maker to pull it off.

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    Chocolate Satin

    More than mere chocolate mousse, this dessert is silkier, lighter, and more ethereally good than anything Mom's ever tasted before.

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    Glazed Chocolate–Crème Fraîche Cookies

    Moms deserve more than chocolate cookies. Moms deserve chocolate-dipped chocolate cookies (plus a whole lot more besides).

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    3-Ingredient Flourless Chocolate Cake

    This naturally gluten-free cake is impressive enough for Mother's Day but secretly easy enough to make in less than an hour.

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    Chocolate Brownie Cookies

    Presenting Mom with a stack of beautifully wrapped, shiny fudge cookies is always a good idea, whether it's Mother's Day or not.

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    Iced Chocolate Soda

    这让人耳目一新,冒泡的饮料有甜的flavor of chocolate milk without the dairy. For a grown-up variation, stir in 1-2 tablespoons of Kahluà or chilled espresso before shaking.

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    Chocolate Babka

    Laden with chocolate and old-world charm, this babka is luscious served as dessert, with coffee, or as breakfast. While baking, the rich dough becomes incredibly tender, so it pulls apart in buttery melt-in-your-mouth pieces.

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    Chocolate Sour Cream Zucchini Cake with Chocolate Glaze

    This is one heck of a cake on so many levels. For starters, nobody is ever going to guess there's zucchini in here, because it virtually disappears in the baking—there's not even a hint of vegetable flavor or nubbiness that you might expect from grated zucchini. What you will notice is what a moist cake this is, maybe the moistest chocolate cake you've ever had.

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    Double-Chocolate Skillet Brownie

    This double-chocolate brownie with crunchy pecans and ice cream is the perfect dessert for the whole family to share this Mother's Day.

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