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The Ultimate Coffee Dessert Guide

Add an extra punch to your dessert with these recipes featuring coffee and espresso flavors!

Sometimes the coffee taste takes center stage, creating a bold, rich flavor. Other times, it's a subtle addition that works behind the scenes to bring out the depth in other flavors, most notably chocolate.

Bold coffee and espresso desserts

  • Two slices are cut out of a chocolate tart. It rests on a round wooden cutting board on a grey stone surface. There are plates, a knife and a napkin nearby.
    Chocolate Coffee Mascarpone Tart
  • Three rows of sandwich cookies on their sides showing the filling.
    Chocolate Coffee Mascarpone Sandwich Cookies
  • Coffee cookies on a tan surface with coffee beans sprinkled amongst them.
    Coffee Cookies
  • A side view of a rectangular piece of chocotorta icebox cake showing the alternating chocolate cookie layers and the dulce de leche cream cheese layers. The cake rests on a beige ceramic plate on a tan stone surface. Another slice and a bowl of dulce de leche are out of focus in the background.
    Chocotorta (Argentinian Chocolate Icebox Cake)

Chocolate enhanced with coffee

  • Close up of sliced bundt cake on a white marble background
    Chocolate Olive Oil Bundt Cake
  • Double chocolate chip cookie bar squares on brown parchment paper.
    Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
  • Caramel pecan bars on a blue plate.
    Caramel Pecan Shortbread Bars
  • A chocolate ganache covered chocolate cake with a slice cut out and turned on an angle to show the inside.
    Chocolate Ganache Cake

More coffee recipes

  • A moody image of a cake on a ceramic cake stand on a tan stone surface. There are yellow candles on the cake. Plates, a napkin, and forks rest nearby. The background is black.
    Triple Chocolate Cake
  • A layered rectangular chocolate cake with mousse filling on a grey plate and grey stone surface with a black tile background. Edible chocolate pearls in a small bowl and two ceramic plates peek out from the right hand of the scene. There are pine cones out of focus in the back of the image.
    Chocolate Chestnut Cake
  • A single layer square chocolate cake on brown parchment paper with nuts sprinkled on top of whipped chocolate ganache frosting.
    Chocolate Walnut Cake

Hi! I'm Kathleen.

I'm the baker and food photographer behind The Floured Table. I develop well-tested, approachable dessert recipes that are designed to work in your kitchen.

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  • A slice of moist apple cake on a ceramic plate with three thin slices of fresh apple on top.
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  • A square of chocolate pear cake from the side showing the crumb and fruit inside.
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    Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies
  • Pear hazelnut tart slice on a speckled grey blue ceramic plate. A vintage fork rests on the right side of the plate. The plate is on a warm tan textured stone background. A small bit of a textured grey napkin peeks out from the bottom left corner, and a small view of a bowl of chopped hazelnuts is visible at top left.
    Pear Tart with Hazelnut Frangipane

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