Recipes and Cooking Desserts & Baking Chocolate Desserts Hot Chocolate Recipes That Think Outside the Mug By Wini Moranville Wini Moranville Instagram Website Wini Moranville has written about food and wine for leading magazines and websites for more than 20 years—hundreds of those being for Better Homes & Gardens publications, including the iconic New Cook Book. She holds a bachelor's degree in French and English from the University of Iowa; she also studied French at the University Laval in Quebec, Canada. Moranville later studied creative writing at Iowa State University, where she received a master's degree in English and was the recipient of the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship in Creative Writing.While she's covered just about every food topic imaginable—from bargain wines to fancy desserts—she's most passionate about the easy-yet-inspired everyday French cuisine she's discovered throughout more than twenty summers living and cooking in France. Moranville was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award, Best Food & Cookbooks 2019, for The Little Women Cookbook. Her book, Everyday French Cooking: Modern French Cuisine Made Simple, will be published by Harvard Common Press in 2022. Back home in the Great Midwest, her local Aldi supermarket is her happy place. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process and Katlyn Moncada Katlyn Moncada Instagram Katlyn Moncada is the associate food editor at BHG.com, sharing food news and tutorials on becoming better home cooks. She is a writer and editor with nearly a decade of experience in digital media, photography, and video production. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Updated on April 28, 2022 Share Tweet Pin Email Steamy chocolate topped with sweet, puffy marshmallows: a mug of hot chocolate is a wonderful thing. Sure, it's a delightful way to warm up on a frigid day, but those magical flavors can go way beyond the cup. Our Test Kitchen morphed the amazing hot chocolate recipe into all kinds of sweet treats. Read on to find hot chocolate cookies, cupcakes, candies, and other delicious desserts inspired by your favorite wintry beverage. 01 of 13 Hot Cocoa Cupcakes View Recipe Jason Donnelly Made-from-scratch hot chocolate cupcakes are a great start, but it doesn't stop there. On our quest for an amazing cocoa-infused dessert, we topped these baby cakes with a marshmallow-like frosting. And for good measure, we added some coffee powder and coffee liqueur to intensify the chocolate flavor. This is one sweet and sophisticated hot chocolate dessert. 02 of 13 Chocolate-Marshmallow Ice Cream Sandwiches View Recipe Blaine Moats Who says hot chocolate is a winter-only thing? Here, we've patterned a great ice cream sandwich after the flavors we love in a good mug of cocoa for a sweet, cool, and creamy gourmet hot chocolate dessert you can enjoy any time of year. 03 of 13 Hot Cocoa Brownie Cake View Recipe Blaine Moats Gourmet hot chocolate brownies are now in your future. With marshmallow frosting piled high on a decadent brownie base, how can you go wrong? If you love hot chocolate and fluffy marshmallows, this is the ultimate way to indulge. 16 Irresistible Hot Chocolate Recipes You Need to Try 04 of 13 Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups View Recipe Matthew Clark How cute are these hot chocolate cookies?! Simple sugar cookie shells are filled with chocolate ganache for the sweetest little cups of hot chocolate ever. Those cute handles are simply pretzel pieces "glued" on with melted white chocolate. Double the chocolaty fun by serving alongside a cup of homemade hot chocolate. Buy It: Wilton Ultra Bake Professional 24 Cup Nonstick Mini Muffin Pan ($13, Target) 05 of 13 Hot Chocolate Stout Float View Recipe Andy Lyons No mug needed here. A soda-shop glass showcases this stout-spiked version of a hot chocolate sundae. While beer and ice cream sound like a strange combo, stout-lovers will love this unique hot chocolate recipe that marries the creamy, cocoa-like appeal of a good stout with chocolate and ice cream. 06 of 13 Hot Chocolate-Marshmallow Snowmen View Recipe Hannah Bigot Here's one of our favorite gift-worthy edible hot chocolate ideas. Present these little cuties alongside a jar of hot chocolate drink mix. Recipients will love munching on the marshmallow treats while sipping mugs of cocoa. And it's a great recipe the kids can help make. 07 of 13 Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Truffles View Recipe Karla Conrad Here, all the pleasures of a great hot chocolate recipe get bundled up in a sweet little two-bite package. But wait: there's a surprise inside! Choose your filling, including almonds, pecan halves, toasted macadamia nuts, and dates and/or dried cherries. We admit that we're partial to the macadamia nuts. Their buttery flavor meshes so well with the hot chocolate flavors. Slow Cooker Candy Recipes That Will Cure Your Sweet Tooth Cravings 08 of 13 Hot Cocoa Soufflé with Coffee Ice Cream View Recipe Kritsada Panichgul In case you didn't know, chocolate tastes most intense when it's warm. This explains the enduring appeal of hot chocolate, hot fudge, hot chocolate lava cakes, and other warm chocolate desserts, including this hot chocolate dessert. Serve it warm from the oven with scoops of ice cream for an unforgettable finale at your next gathering. 09 of 13 Gooey Hot Cocoa Cup Cakes View Recipe Matthew Clark These hot chocolate cupcakes aren't just cute, but also super delicious. A melty chocolate center turns these cupcakes into a mini molten lava cake. It's highly recommended to serve these treats while still warm from the oven. Buy It: Wilton 12-Cup Muffin Pan ($12, Michaels) 10 of 13 Chocolate-Marshmallow Cookies View Recipe Jason Donnelly It's a drop-cookie version of a hot chocolate recipe. Tucked underneath the super-simple chocolate glaze is a puffy marshmallow nestled atop a chocolate cookie for another great hot chocolate idea for thinking outside the mug. 23 of Our Test Kitchen's Best Cookie Recipes of All Time 11 of 13 Chocolate-Marshmallow Peanut Clusters View Recipe Karla Conrad Here's another chocolate-marshmallow treat that reminds us of everything we love about hot chocolate. Plus, there's a bonus of peanuts in the mix for added crunch. And you can keep the oven turned off: These are no-bake treats at their sweet and simple best. 12 of 13 Frozen Hot Chocolate View Recipe Matthew Clark Here's a 4-ingredient hot chocolate dessert you'll make on repeat. Instead of sipping hot chocolate that's actually hot, you'll turn it into a frosty treat. Simply freeze the hot chocolate mixture into ice molds. Keep those hot cocoa cubes stocked in your freezer and simply blend with milk when your chocolate cravings strike. Buy It: NutriBullet Blender Combo ($150, NutriBullet) 13 of 13 Hot Cocoa Tassies with Peppermint Frosting View Recipe Blaine Moats If you've ever slipped a peppermint stick in a mug of hot chocolate, then topped the drink with marshmallows, you can imagine what these little gems taste like. The easy-to-make cocoa crusts are filled with a simple peppermint-marshmallow creme for lovely little cups of cheer. These 16 Hot Drinks Are Your Cold-Weather Saviors Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit