Share some love with 20 of the best Valentine’s Day dessert recipes to choose from – cakes, pies and cookies, from fruits to classic chocolate favorites.
Celebrate All The Loves Of Your Life For Valentine’s Day
Life is all the sweeter with love, and what better way to celebrate the Valentine’s Day loves of our life than with 20 of the best dessert recipes made with love.
Whether your Valentine celebration is going to be a romantic evening at home for a date night, a fun celebration with the family or simply fur family and you, there are so many festive ways to whip up the best dessert you’ve had all year for the occasion.
Valentine’s Day Needs A Decorative Tree – Don’t You Think?
Just 51 days after the holiday season we fill our home with a tree, lights and so many special dessert treats, comes Valentine’s Day, a day with a sorted history.
However, with joy, cupid and lots of whimsical hearts now replacing that dark history, here at Whisk and Dine, we now have a special tree for our love filled celebration.
With some branches gathered from the woods, spray painted white, lots of wooden hearts spray painted red and hung all over our white branches, we’ve set the mood for yet another holiday to celebrate, because… isn’t that what life is all about!
Valentine Desserts With An Extra Special Touch
Can we all admit that Valentine’s Day gets to be the guilt-free sweet treat month of the year? After-all, a special occasion always gives us an excuse to indulge in an extra special dessert or drink.
No, the perfect dessert doesn’t have to be chocolate, not everyone likes chocolate, said no one, but maybe there is something unusually special that catches your interest for a Valentine dessert.
Purple Sweet Potato Crepe Cake, or Mille-crepes, with multiple layers of crepes made with purple sweet potatoes, layered with a passion fruit creme between each layer and a buttercream icing tinted with butterfly pea flower tea steeped in a little booze and dusted with edible purple fairy dust.
Crepe cakes are relatively new on the scene of decadent desserts, thanks to a favorite TV show The Great British Bake Off. They are made up of many layers of thin French type pancakes, stacked impressively high and held together with a thin spread of filling, finished with an icing of choice, or a dusting of confectioners sugar or cocoa.Â
The secret to the perfect crepe cake is in the consistency of the batter, chilling the batter to help the flour absorb liquid and relax the gluten, and a twirl of the crepe pan to stretch the batter out as far as it can go.
Cooking time is quick, barely a minute per crepe, making this a fast dessert to whip up and look as though it came from a professional bakery.
The Best Valentine’s Day Desserts Are Those You Love Anyway – Dressed Up
Chocolate and Coffee Checker Cookies made with simple ingredients of butter, sugar and flour, divided into two and flavored with strong espresso powder in one batter and cocoa powder in the other, layered into an intricate checker pattern, sliced and baked.
These Coffee Chocolate Checkered Artsy Cookies, will satisfy all your chocolate and coffee cravings, arranged into a stunning artsy checker presentation.
Crème Brûlée – Since Valentine’s day is in February and often cold throughout much of our country, why not celebrate this special day with a creamy custard dessert that is scented of a winter forest, and lit with a torch just before serving to caramelize the sugar sprinkled on top. Sage, juniper berries and mastic, a resin from the Greek islands, is steeped in cream before whisking it into a rich egg yolk mixture, bringing the essence of the forest to your Valentine table.
Mini Rose Baklava Tarts – With store-bought mini phyllo cups (or homemade), and a short video, making my mini baklava tarts recipe is faster than traditional baklava, less messy too. What’s not to love about the scent and flavor of rosewater in the baklava syrup and a generous sprinkling of fresh rose petals on top before serving!
Cranberry Pie – If the color red is what you’re after for your Valentine dessert table, and an added measure of healthy ingredients to ward off winter colds and flu, than this sweet treat is abundant in everything you could want. Almond Crusted Cranberry Orange Pie is a gluten-free crust made with almonds and coconut, sweetened with dates, as is the cranberry pie filling, which is loaded with cranberries and vitamin C!
Decadent Desserts For A Perfect Valentine’s Day
Tea and Toast – I can promise you you’ve never had a dessert like this before, because I created it just for this special occasion! Tea Cakes and Toast Ice Cream are my whimsical creation of a bergamot tea cake with hot toddy icing, toast ice cream and toast dust. Who doesn’t love the comforting scent of fresh toast with a warm cup of tea!
Mille Feuille is simply a fancy name for layers of laminated pastry with whipped cream flowerettes between each layer. While this dessert is a magnificent presentation of the most buttery pastry you will ever eat, it is a recommended dessert for a more advanced baker.
The crispness of the pastry is French patisserie perfection and whatever cream dollops you choose to place between the layers – vanilla, chocolate or a rum butter cream, the presentation is sure to wow!
A Healthy Box Of Chocolates
Date Hearts – Healthy Chocolate Date Candy, with only 3-ingredients, dates, nuts and raw cacao, is everything you’d want candy to be except it’s healthy!
The beautiful natural flavors of healthy raw cacao, healthy dates and healthy nuts whirled together, make for a fabulous healthy candy and they can be shaped anyway you would like; hearts to balls rolled in coconut, freeze dried crushed raspberries or strawberries.
Mocha Macarons – Billowy clouds of whipped egg whites and almond flour baked into delicate rounds, filled with whipped heavy cream and mocha, make for a dessert to love because they are as light as air, and easy to devour many. I can’t think of a cookie (if you can call these cookies), more heavenly than macarons!
A few finicky tips, such as whipped egg whites to almond flour ratio, and a low and slow bake time to dry the moisture from the egg whites, leaving a luscious airy crunch, and you will be making macarons in a variety of shapes, colors and flavors.
These elegant pillows are a recipe to love and a boxed gift perfect to give.
An Everyday Delicious Dessert Can Be Made Into An Extra Special Homemade Treat
Edible Flower Shortbread Cookies – Shortbread cookies for Valentine’s day? Well, not everyone likes chocolate, and not everyone wants a heavy dose of sugar for dessert if they’ve had a rich Valentine’s day dinner. However, these cookies are beautifully adorned with a variety of edible flowers, making them look like a Valentine gift in and of themselves.
Passion Fruit Eclairs – Perhaps your Valentine celebration is going to be a luncheon with a few friends, your children or perhaps your parents. Choux pastry piped into eclair shells, baked to perfection and filled with passion fruit pastry cream and a drizzle of chocolate, is sure to bring a cheer for your baking skills and a bit of a tropical treat to the dead of winter!
Fresh Raspberries And Strawberries
Raspberry Tart – Quick Custard Raspberry Mini Tarts, made with a sweetened condensed milk custard, topped with fresh raspberries in a simple crust for a showstopper dessert!
Strawberry Tart – Farm Fresh Strawberry Tarts, of buttery rich pastry, cream or coconut milk custard and lots of fresh strawberries, are a delicious way to celebrate Valentine day and remind us that spring is just around the corner!
Chocolate Lover Recipes To Love
Chocolate Chili Mini Cakes – deep dark chili chocolate mini cakes with cacao, coffee and chili, make for a decadent chocolate dessert in just the right size portions for individual servings.
Deep dark almost ganache-like icing, equally scented with a hint of chili easily spread over each mini cake and topped with a candied hibiscus flower will leave its memory of being one of the most rich chocolate cakes you’ve ever eaten, so for this reason we like them made small since they pack a mighty punch.
Flourless Fudge Cake – the famous missing raspberry flourless fudge cake, known by over 3 million viewers on The Great British Bake Off is better than fudgy brownies, two layers of dark chocolate cake with lots of eggs and without flour, wrapped in a decadent chocolate icing and covered with numerous fresh raspberries on top makes this a coveted recipe if ever there was one.
Statistics have it that chocolate and raspberries rank top among all loved dessert recipes celebrated for Valentine’s Day each year.
Almond Crusted Chocolate Custard Pie – Individually baked for easy serving or gifting, with its almond and cacao cookie-like crust and silky chocolate egg custard filling, is every chocolate lover’s pie!
S’Mores – The best S’Mores Cookies Recipe is encased in chocolate, double layer homemade graham crackers or British biscuits, and sandwiched with gooey homemade marshmallows.
Sure, you can do a quickie version of this recipe by using store bought marshmallows and graham crackers, but making those from scratch is going to take your S’Mores to a new level of decadent chocolate desserts!
Swiss Chocolate Roll – The first Swiss Chocolate Roll I ever saw was back in the 80’s
on a Julia Childs cooking show on TV, and was made into a Yule Log. However, roll this magnificent moist chocolate cake, that cooks quickly, into a decadent roll filled with sweet whipped cream and drizzled with melted chocolate and you’ve got the perfect Valentine cake!
Romantic Dinners With Special Cocktails Instead Of Dessert
Cranberry and Pomegranate – Cranberry Pomegranate Martini, is a classic shaken-not-stirred cocktail with vodka and a sprig of rosemary, to satisfy from Thanksgiving through Valentine day!
Peony Colada – Pink Peony Colada Cocktail, with homemade peony syrup or rose syrup, rum and coconut milk, ornamented with fresh blossoms in the ice cubes is bound to bring a sparkle to the eyes of those sipping this luscious special occasion cocktail.
As your Valentine’s Day comes and goes, the hope is that you will hang onto these 20 fabulous recipes to give them a try over the months that follow and decide for yourself which is the best and your absolute favorite!
I believe the table... that place that draws people to gather, is the most powerful symbol of togetherness. All that happens before the table is set, the planning, the gathering, the preparing, are all an intricate part of the dance that create the mood of celebration to share with friends and loved ones.