21+ Black Desserts to Make at Home

Decadently delicious, fudgy, and addictive, these black brownies are perfect to serve for any black themed soiree. Add googly eyes and they're the perfect black sweet treats to serve for Halloween!

Whether you choose to follow the from-scratch recipe or use a boxed brownie mix, it's up to you. They're topped with black cookie icing for extra gorgeous darkness.

Chocolate shouldn’t need to be a thing that you can only have once in a while because it’s full of junk. These delicious little homemade chocolates have all the goodness of cacao.

With the added bonus of being super easy to make, these chocolate bonbons are exceptionally rich and smooth. Brown butter chocolates are like healthy dark chocolate treats made with cocoa powder, grass-fed butter and sweetened with honey.  

Oreos are a popular chocolate snack and they star in this oreo cheesecake brownie recipe. With a creamy cheesecake topping and a crushed oreo swirl, a black cocoa double chocolate brownie center and an oreo cookie crust as base, this chocolate treat's got it all. 

Creamy goodness, rich chocolatey taste and a delicate balance between sweet and salty. Just note the importance of using black cocoa powder in the recipe to ensure that your brownies are as rich and dark as can be.

These black cupcakes feature a moist black cocoa powder sponge, and a smooth black chocolate buttercream frosting. It's decorated with Halloween dessert sprinkles and some deliciously frightful treats making them delightfully freaky for ol' Hallows Eve.

Absolutely everyone in the family will enjoy these, and they make such nice treats for a Halloween party. Rich and decadent, these black velvet cupcakes are very easy to make with only a few simple ingredients.

Boasting of 3 layers of moist black sponge cake and a velvety cream cheese frosting, this black velvet cake is perfect for a black tie affair. With contrasting black cake and white frosting, it's stunning and delicious at the same time.

Vegan buttermilk works as an egg replacer and the frosting is dairy-free. It's just the vegan version of the classic red velvet cake that you've been waiting for.

Ready in a flash, this oreo mug cake will be your go-to dessert to whip up any time. Not just for Halloween, it's a gorgeous black dessert that'll satisfy your sweet tooth year-round.

With crushed up oreos, a few pantry staples, and a large mug, you're ready to go. Blitz this up in the microwave and top with ice cream. You can even drizzle some homemade chocolate syrup on top. It's a quick and easy dessert that's decadent and full of chocolatey goodness.

If you like both blackberries and chocolate, they come together wonderfully in this black dessert recipe. With a moist chocolate cake and purple blackberry frosting, it's an amazing cake that's perfect for a gothic or punk rock themed party.

Did I mention it's vegan? Yup, the recipe uses cacao butter, vegan chocolate chips, and other whole food ingredients. 

Make these moist and fluffy vegan coffee cupcakes for your coffee loving friends and fam. Loaded with bold coffee flavor, and topped with a silky, creamy icing, this coffee dessert is sure to be a crowd favorite. 

They're made with no dairy or eggs and come together in one bowl with inexpensive pantry ingredients. Rich, sweet, and bold with a hint of bitterness from the coffee, this pick-me-up is an excellent sweet breakfast treat, but still diet-friendly.

These easy black cupcakes are a chocolate lover’s dream. Using two types of chocolate to yield the moist yet light and fluffy chocolate cupcakes with a rich and creamy buttercream. 

These stunning black velvet cupcakes feature a dark chocolate ganache filling and the darkest, most decadent chocolate cream cheese icing you've ever laid eyes on!

This black velvet cake features a soft, moist cake, a luscious chocolate cream cheese frosting, and a vibrant red cherry filling. With natural ingredients used for the coloring, it has the texture of a red velvet cake, but uses black cocoa powder to make it black.

It's rich and velvety, living up to its name. Best of all, if you're a fan of cherries as chocolate inclusions, then this cake will be a winner for you!

This black ice cream is unlike any frozen treat you've ever had. Featuring black cocoa powder to achieve that deep dark color, it doesn't need any artificial food coloring. The flavor is simply wonderful, like a deep, dark, rich oreo.

This recipe makes an incredibly smooth and creamy textured ice cream that’s perfectly scoopable. This ice cream does get pretty melty quickly, however, so scoop, eat and return to the freezer as you go. For more chocolatey goodness, I’d drizzle some hot fudge or thick chocolate sauce on top. 

This no churn boo batter ice cream is perfect for Halloween. If you're a fan of the Cold Stone Creamery trick or treat ice cream flavor, this is a homemade hack you'll love.

Not only is this Halloween ice cream a breeze to make, you also don’t need an ice cream maker for it. It’s packed with a variety of little chocolate treats like chocolate bars, cookies, and candies. This frozen delight is like your bag of candies come to life! 

This black milkshake tastes much like an Oreo milkshake, combining the rich, enigmatic flavor of black cocoa powder with the creamy richness of vanilla ice cream. The best part is that there's no artificial flavor or colorings added.

They're ideal for giving your black-themed celebrations a hint of refinement - the visual appeal of this black milkshake makes it a fancy dessert or beverage for an elevated soiree.

Searching for a low-calorie chocolate snack? Stop scrolling because these are the healthiest oreos around. They’re vegan, paleo-friendly, and low-carb.

There is no mistaking the taste of these keto Oreos - delicious dairy-free cream filling between two crispy chocolate cookies! They're sugar-free, gluten-free, eggless, and with only 1.5 net carbs per serving.

These Halloween monster cookies are a super fun way to celebrate the spookiest time of the year! They're really easy to make and incredibly delicious.

These ominous Halloween sweets are made without the use of food coloring - an eerie shade of black, these are not your average cookies. They’re chewy, slightly soft chocolate chip cookies. 

With a deep chocolate flavor, along with melted chocolate chips in the core, these delicious delights are ideal for Halloween festivities!

These black cocoa cookies feature a smooth chocolate-flavored deep black cookie dough, thanks to black cocoa powder. They're your typical gingerbread man shapes, but all dolled up like skeletons. These are the perfect black desserts for Halloween or Day of the Dead (with a bit more color added).

These elegant black and white chocolate heart cookies will look amazing on the dessert table. The rich chocolate cookies feature a decadent chocolate ganache center. 

This cookie’s just oozing with chocolatey goodness, quite literally. You can totally swap the center with a home-made fudge sauce or gianduja; they make the perfect for any chocolate lover.

Another homemade oreo cookie but this time for the non-diet conscious. These homemade Oreo cookies are just like the popular snacks, only bigger and better! The black cookies are crunchy, chocolaty and just a bit salty with a lovely vanilla cream filling to hold the cookie pieces together.

The best thing about this homemade oreos? You can put as much cream filling as you want. They are perfect for dunking and you can let your imagination go wild with filling flavors.

Black sesame rolls are a classic Cantonese dessert. If you've got a black themed affair or are having a soiree where you want to impress, these little treats would be perfect to bring!

These sweet dimsum desserts feature a touch of nuttiness and earthiness from the toasted black sesame seeds. They're similar in texture to jello, but a little bit firmer. They're unique, really enjoyable and have amazing flavor. 

Are you a fan of black sesame? It's one of those classic Asian flavors along with red bean and matcha that makes the most interesting and delicious sweets.

Glutinous rice flour is used to make this chewy, gluten-free brownie, known as black sesame brochi. What’s a brochi you say? Simply put, it’s a portmanteau of brownie and mochi, a chewy Asian snack. 

The mochi gets its flavor from black sesame powder, which is nutty and tasty, and IMHO, this black dessert recipe is way better than your average brownies.

For those who are gluten intolerant but still want a tasty dessert, this black cake recipe is for you. It's a wonderful, gluten-free, moist chocolate cake made entirely without flour. This chocolate cake is surprisingly made with black beans of all things, but it doesn't taste at all like beans. Perfect with cacao tea or some hot chocolate.