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These Chocolate Holiday Desserts Are Better Than Presents

In the spirit of giving, we're giving you our favorite chocolate holiday recipes 😉

Bows of holly are nice, but we prefer to deck the halls with decadent desserts. These chocolate holiday recipes are rich enough to satisfy your craving with a single bite, but honestly, it's the holidays. We say you take the biggest slice and celebrate in style — with a serious chocolate overdose. #noregrets

The beautiful thing about chocolate is that it goes with everything. (Chocolate-dipped bacon, yes please! Chocolate-covered potato chips, gimme, gimme! Chocolate-coated pickles… well, we wouldn't say no. 🤷) You can holiday-ify your chocolate dessert recipes by adding classic holiday flavors, like peppermint, orange oil, or butter rum.

The recipes below are our favorite chocolate holiday desserts — spiced up for the season with hazelnuts, candy cane, and other festive flavors. Bake them for your celebration so you can serve up the chocolate fix that's on everyone's wish list.

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Chocolate Sauce To Top All Your Chocolate Holiday Desserts

This chocolate sauce is so easy to make — you only need three ingredients and 10 minutes to throw it together. You'll melt the chocolate in the microwave, which means you won't have to wait around for your double boiler to get goin'.

This chocolate holiday recipe stays saucy — and doesn't turn back into a solid — even at room temperature, so you can use it warm or cool. After it cools down, put it in a squeeze bottle to drizzle on cakes, cupcakes, or ice cream sundaes.

Hazelnut Ganache To Layer Into Your Holiday Cakes

It seems like those Ferrero-Rocher gift boxes start popping up everywhere at this time of year, and we are hooked on that chocolate-hazelnut flavor. Yo has even caked this iconic chocolate candy!

This hazelnut ganache tastes just like the outer layer on those little, gold-foiled balls of chocolaty heaven. You can add it to any holiday cake, or you can create a simplified version of Yo's Ferrero Rocher Cake (all the flavors with none of the carving) by stacking layers of chocolate cake with cocoa shortcrust and this ganache.

Chocolate Sugar Cookies To Use for All Your Holiday Cookie Decorating

Holiday cookies are a staple of the season. Whether you're hosting an annual cookie decorating party or want to leave something for Santa, Yo's Chocolate Sugar Cookie Dough is the perfect way to upgrade your standard sugar cookies (because, let's be real, adding chocolate is always an upgrade!).

You can turn these treats into delicious chocolate sandwich cookies by sticking two together with a layer of the hazelnut ganache we mentioned above. Or you can decorate them with some royal icing. Get step-by-step instructions to create adorable royal icing designs in our Holiday Cookies Digital Activity Book.

With a few tips and some simple techniques, you can make adorable gingerbread men, candy canes, Christmas trees, and round and square cookie designs. Put out these cute cookies for Santa, and he'll be talking about them all year. 🎅

Ultimate Chocolate Cake

If you want death by chocolate to come in the form of a cake, then this one's for you. Yo's Ultimate Chocolate Cake is already to die for, but you can dress it up for the holidays using the expert tips in Yo's FREE Holiday Baking Basics Program. She'll show you how to incorporate flavors like ginger and candy cane without affecting the texture of your cake.

You can also turn this classic chocolate cake into a holiday recipe by pairing it with a holiday frosting, like Bailey's Irish Cream Cheese Frosting (another recipe from the Holiday Baking Basics Program!), or layering it with that yummy Hazelnut Ganache 😋

White Chocolate Candy Cane Buttercream

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Try this white chocolate buttercream recipe. It has all the creamy, dreaminess that you expect from this vanilla-scented chocolate. (The secret to white chocolate's creaminess: It has all the cocoa butter of your other chocolates with none of the cocoa solids.)

We add crushed candy cane to this fluffy frosting for a bit of festive flavor and color. It's the perfect way to turn a simple chocolate or vanilla cake into a holiday favorite. Learn the techniques you need to make this twist on Italian meringue buttercream in Yo's FREE Holiday Baking Basics Program.

Christmas Tree Cupcakes

These Christmas Tree Cupcakes feature a rich chocolate cupcake with a biscuit base. They're covered in a bed of silky smooth, Swiss meringue buttercream, and topped with a festive fir tree — made from an ice cream cone decorated with colorful buttercream.

This Christmas tree even has a surprise center: Your favorite chocolate candies! Fill your ice cream cone with chocolate chips, mini Oreos, chocolate sprinkles, or any other treats that fit inside. Learn how to make these handheld chocolate holiday desserts when you sign up for this live holiday baking tutorial.