30+ Mocha Dessert Recipes

A pairing as perfect as chocolate and coffee begs to be featured in some of the best dessert recipes, and that’s just what these are! In this roundup, I highlight 30+ inspired mocha dessert recipes. From mocha pies to chocolate espresso cakes, and everything in between, coffee and chocolate are the stars!
What Really is a Mocha Dessert?
Quite simply, these desserts all feature that classic combination of chocolate and coffee found in a mocha beverage at your favorite coffee shop. Some recipes are made with instant espresso, while others are made with fresh espresso. Some ingredient lists include a strongly brewed cup of coffee or maybe a little instant coffee. But, all of the recipes in this roundup highlight chocolate in its many forms: cocoa powder, chocolate shavings, or chocolate chips; and, these mocha dessert recipes feature milk, dark, and even white chocolate. Whether you’re looking for a decadent breakfast treat or a grand finale to a fancy dinner, I have you covered.
How to Choose Your Favorite Mocha Dessert?
The mocha dessert recipes featured here span the simple to the elaborate and the health-forward to the downright indulgent. I included mocha dessert recipes for all seasons and all times of the day. Dessert for breakfast is a thing! Plus, this list includes gluten-free mocha desserts as well as dairy-free mocha desserts. I promise one thing; it’ll be hard to choose just one!
My favorite? Cappuccino Flats (Chocolate-Dipped Mocha Cookies) are ever-loved, and are especially fun if you have young helpers in the kitchen looking to lend a hand.

30+ of the Best Mocha Dessert Recipes
Cappuccino Flats (Chocolate-Dipped Mocha Cookies)
My very favorite cookies of all time! Cappuccino flats are thick-cut slice-and-bake cookies. The buttery cookies are flavored with chocolate and coffee, plus a hint of cinnamon, and then dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. Divine!
Mocha Chocolate Icebox Cake
Thin, crispy chocolate chip cookies are softened between layers of mocha cream. The mousse-like cream is made with mascarpone, Kahlua and chocolate. It’s like a chocolate chip cookie tiramisu, in cake form!
Mocha Madness Ice Cream
Chocolate-Espresso ice cream base is studded with chocolate sandwich cookies for a textural hit. This one is sure to delight kids and adults alike!
Salted caramel mocha cake
This salted caramel mocha cake is a stunner! Moist chocolate cake layered with espresso simple syrup and salted caramel mocha buttercream. The whole thing crowned with a shiny chocolate ganache and a beautiful piping of buttercream around the border.
Coffee and Fudge Ice Cream Cake
Here, we turn to a dream dessert for your summer cook outs with a twist on an ice cream cake. Chocolate, vanilla and coffee ice cream are layered with graham crackers and homemade fudge sauce!
Coffee Chocolate Chip Blondies
Made with wholesome ingredients like whole wheat pastry flour, coconut sugar, and toasted pecans, there’s magic in these chewy chocolate-coffee blondies!
The ULTIMATE Mocha Cake
Gluten-free and vegan mocha indulgence is possible with this decadent mocha cake. This towering mocha cake is made up of three layers of coffee-chocolate cake and mocha “buttercream”. Plus, it’s gorgeous!
Mocha Peanut Butter Pie
How clever is the combination of chocolate, espresso and peanut butter? This frozen treat is assembled with a mocha cookie crust, peanut butter cheesecake layer and finished with chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cups and chocolate drizzle on the very top! It’s an easy, no-bake dessert perfect for summer!
Chocolate Chestnut Cream Cake with Coffee + Rum
An inventive play on a classic tiramisu, Alanna adds chestnut cream and rum to this cake, but keeps the traditional espresso and chocolate elements. It’s gluten-less with her use of homemade gluten-free chestnut-chiffon cake for the base of the dessert. Yum!
Espresso Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
You had me at fudgy centers and brownie-like cookies! Throw in an espresso twist and I’m in mocha heaven. Pretty enough for a holiday cookie plate but simple enough for any day of the year.
Mexican Mocha Snickerdoodles
Inspired by a Mexican mocha, these delicious cookies are easy to make and bake up soft and chewy. They have cocoa added to the dough, and let’s not forget that signature snickerdoodle bath in cinnamon sugar, this time an ancho chili-spiked cinnamon sugar!
Peppermint Mocha Cake
One bite of this peppermint mocha cake will take you to your holiday happy place! Coffee buttercream is sandwiched between layers of peppermint mocha cake and is decked out with a chocolate ganache drizzle and a sprinkle of chopped candy canes.
Quick and Dirty Chocolate Espresso Cinnamon Rolls
Zero to cinnamon roll in one hour flat? I’ll take that challenge! Especially if the ensuing treats are cinnamon rolls spiked with espresso and chocolate.
Easy Chocolate Espresso Mousse
Look no further for an easy and elegant finish to your next steak dinner! 5-ingredient chocolate espresso mousse is made with a chocolate-espresso ganache, whipped into heavy cream, and decoratively piped into individually sized ramekins.
pan-banging molasses espresso cookies with chocolate
Have you tried Sarah Kieffer’s famous pan banging chocolate chip cookies? These are her variation of those, with molasses and espresso tossed in for good measure. The result? Cookies with gooey centers, crackly edges and a taste just like your favorite spiced espresso mocha.
Espresso Chocolate Chip Cake
Double the coffee hit with this mocha-inspired cake! The cake is flavored with both espresso and strongly brewed coffee and studded with chocolate chips. Frosted with espresso-coffee buttercream, this one is over-the-top good!
Chocolate Espresso Torte
Chocolate lovers, this one is for you! Rich and decadent, this is a flourless torte (naturally gluten-free), made with real espresso. Served with a dollop of homemade whipped cream, it’s sophisticated enough to be served at a fancy restaurant.
Chocolate Espresso Cake
No one would know it, but this towering chocolate espresso cake is vegan! The too-many-to-count layers consist of chocolate espresso cake and chocolate-coconut buttercream frosting made with two ingredients. Simple & elegant!
Chocolate-Espresso Snowballs
Over 2,000 5-star reviews say it all. These popular chocolate-espresso snowballs are like your favorite Italian wedding cookie, with a chocolate and espresso flair.
Espresso Chocolate Chunk Brownies
We can’t have a mocha dessert roundup without a brownie recipe! And just look at that shiny top! They’re thick, fudgy and everything a brownie should be, plus they’re spiked with espresso.
Espresso Hot Chocolate
Need a recipe for a perfect mocha, made at home? This is the one! Complete with freshly whipped cream and crushed cinnamon sticks, it’s a deeply flavored espresso drink made better (isn’t everything?!) with chocolate.
Espresso Chocolate Chunk Scones
I love scones and espresso chocolate chunk scones with maple drizzle are no exception! These buttermilk scones are light and buttery and graced with fresh espresso and chunks of dark chocolate.
White Chocolate Coffee tart
Made with Valrhona white chocolate, silky coffee ganache sits upon a buttery Pâte Sablée crust and is topped with fresh whipped cream. A cup of black tea to go with and you’re set for a perfect afternoon tea!
Mocha Cheesecake
All the classic components and textures of your favorite cheesecake are there, plus a few bonuses…chocolate sandwich cookie crust & chocolate-espresso filling. Delicious!
Chocolate Espresso Babka
Why stop at yeasted brioche dough, when you can add espresso powder and chocolate to a gooey filling? A final espresso syrup is spooned over the baked babka for a heavenly breakfast treat or snack.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Mocha Oat Bars
Revel cookie bars meet their mocha cousin! Oatmeal cookies on the bottom & top and a clever raisin-chocolate-coffee filling in-between. They’re also surprisingly refined-sugar and gluten free.
Mocha Meringue Sandwich Cookies
Chewy and crisp from the meringue top and bottom, these old-fashioned meringue cookies are elevated with the addition of coffee powder and a chocolate filling.
Walnut Mocha Torte
This inventive German-style torte is a must-make! Ground walnuts flavor the cake and egg whites give it an airy texture. Mocha whipped cream frosting crowns the finished torte.
Easy Chocolate Tiramisu
This one looks a lot like the classic tiramisu, but with a mocha twist. Chocolate mascarpone filling and a Kahlua soaking syrup give it just the right touch of unique.
Mile-High Triple-Chocolate-Espresso Mousse Pie
Think you have this icebox cake figured out? Look again. Upon cutting into this beautiful pie, you’ll find four layers and flavors…chocolate wafer crust, bittersweet chocolate mousse, milk chocolate mousse and espresso cream!
French Opera Cake
This Parisian classic gets its gorgeous look from the tiny layers of varying textures and flavors including almond sponge cake, coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but it just may be the mirror-like chocolate glaze on the very top.