11 Easy Chocolate Dessert Recipes For When You Just Need To Feel Something

Make it as simple as you like, or dress it up with roasted almonds and toasted meringue — this easy chocolate mousse from A Beautiful Plate is yours to customize. But if you have to let the mousse chill in the fridge for an hour before diving into it, you may as well make yourself some fun toppings, right?

Eating cold cookie dough out of the fridge is one of life’s simplest pleasures, but also obviously not advised by any doctor anywhere. Instead, try Princess Pinky Girl’s edible chocolate chip cookie dough, made without eggs so you can enjoy your dessert without the specter of salmonella hanging over you.

If you have everything you need to make the last recipe, you could also make this easy mug cake from DIY Candy. It’s warm, buttery, and chocolatey, and it’s ready in literally three minutes.

Picture this: 10 minutes from now, you and a bowl of Damn Delicious’ chocolate cheesecake dip are snuggled up on the couch, watching your comfort show, forgetting about your real life entirely. Making this dip is seriously just a matter of beating four ingredients together in a mixer and then deciding what you want to dip into it.

Oh, you said you wanted chocolate? Averie Cooks’ dump cake recipe will give you about as much chocolate as possible per bite. You’ll spend about five minutes combining a boxed cake mix, pudding mix, and some milk and butter before topping it with chocolate chips and shoving it in the oven to do its thing. This looks best enjoyed standing at the kitchen counter, spooning it right out of the baking dish.

Fudge that takes 10 minutes to prep? Sign me up. It’ll need to cool in the fridge for two hours, but once you make Budget Bytes’ recipe, you’ll have an 8x8 pan of the stuff to snack on for many nights to come.

Brown Eyed Baker's chocolate peanut butter bark requires only three ingredients and a little time spent melting and swirling them together so they're evenly distributed. On top of a little chocolate therapy, you get the added perk of being able to smash it into bite-sized pieces before eating.

My husband’s family has made their own version of these cookies for years, and he still loves to whip up a batch of “no bakes” when the mood strikes. Brown Eyed Baker’s recipe is virtually the same, and you’re left with crunchy, satisfying peanut butter and chocolate cookies.

This chocolate chess pie recipe by Princess Pinky Girl is a classic Southern dessert made with a handful of ingredients you may already have lying around in your pantry. Do about 10 minutes of prep, bake for an hour, and then top it with all the whipped cream to serve.

Want a super decadent yet easy chocolate dessert? Averie Cooks’ triple chocolate cherry cake uses a boxed cake mix for the base, which you’ll church up with a little almond extract and some cherry pie filling. Her recipe includes instructions for homemade frosting, but of course you could buy that from the store too if you’re here for chocolate and not more tasks, thanks.

Have a few bananas on the verge of going bad? Then maybe The Curious Plate’s chocolate chip banana cake is the easy chocolate dessert recipe for you. This one takes a little more prep and baking time than other recipes in the list, but if you’re after a moist, chocolate-y cake, it’ll be worth it, I promise.