9 Coffee Desserts to Pick You Up

Vietnamese coffee is a creamy, potent drink with a little smokiness. These cookies capture the drink’s essence nicely and make a good sidekick to a cup.

Chocolatey cookies hug a coffee-spiked mascarpone cheese layer, giving the flavor of tiramisu but more portable.

This sundae has coffee times two, as espresso powder-flavored brownies are topped with a generous scoop of coffee ice cream. Homemade dark chocolate ganache makes a decadent drizzle, adding a sweet richness.

Espresso martini girlies assemble because your dessert is here. It tastes just like the cocktail with an espresso jelly martini layer, a chocolate mousse layer and a whipped cream layer. The jelly even has a bit of vodka for a kick.

This cake rivals a slab you would get in even the best coffee shop. The frosting has a toasted vanilla flavor, made by browning milk powder in a pan, and the cake is made with espresso and browned butter. The result is a nutty richness, like lightly roasted coffee beans.

A dirty chai is when you throw a shot of espresso into a chai latte for a bit of coffee with your tea. The flavor is roasty and spiced, very warming. This recipe fills vanilla donuts with spiced espresso cream and then rolls the donuts in espresso powder and chai spices for even more oomph.

No list of coffee desserts would be complete without the O.G., tiramisu, where layers of espresso-soaked ladyfinger cookies are topped with a sweet mascarpone cheese and whipped cream topping. This recipe goes one step further by adding two coffee-tinged mascarpone and cream cheese layers with a coffee-soaked ladyfinger center.

A basic coffee ice cream is fairly straight forward, but this recipe adds some deeper sweetness with dried figs and Vietnamese cinnamon.

Remember the dalgona coffee craze from a few years ago where instant espresso was whipped with milk and turned into a fluffy, light topping for coffee and other drinks? This recipe cake-ifies it into individual cake bowls, topped with a fluffy dollop of whipped coffee.