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Enjoy this collection of all the best Valentine’s Day desserts to make on the 14th!! We’ve got cakes, cupcakes, cheesecakes, and more!!
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We Love Valentine’s Desserts!
We LOVE celebrating February 14th with dessert!! And I think we can all agree that it’s hard NOT to celebrate this sweet day without something sweet.
Dessert is a MUST! With that in mind, we wanted to share some of our favorite Valentine’s Day dessert recipes.
What’s not to love:
- Flavor. From rich dark chocolate desserts to berry treats to red velvet cake – we’ve got them all covered.
- Pretty! We are also sharing some pink and red desserts because they’re festive for Valentine’s Day!
- For sharing. I love to make this a special day for the entire family (or for you and your sweetheart)!
Dessert Tips
Check out our Valentine’s Dinner Ideas post for even more tips, but here are some ideas to help with the decor and dessert:
- Use cute decor. Pink, red, and heart plates make the table festive. Even a few balloons or a pretty bouquet centerpiece make it look special.
- Don’t stress if you don’t have time for dessert! We have great ideas on this list, but other store-bought ideas include Chocolate-Covered Strawberries, mini chocolate heart boxes, or favorite candy bars for each kid. An Oreo or chocolate truffle makes a sweet gift!
- Fondue is another easy dessert idea!! Use our homemade Caramel Apple Dip, Cream Cheese Fruit Dip, or Nutella Dip, and have fruits, marshmallows, and more to dip in.
- Use plastic champagne glasses for sparkling cider or another yummy drink (like our Red Velvet Milkshake) to make it more special.
- Candy. Sprinkle the table with conversation hearts or other Valentine’s candy or add a small box of chocolates to each plate as a treat for after dinner.
Top Valentines Day Treats
There are so many great ways to make dessert special for the kids, like homemade treats. Below you will find some of our most popular Valentine’s desserts!
57 Valentine Cookies Recipe
58 Valentine’s Charcuterie Board Recipe
59 Chocolate Covered Strawberries
60 Red Velvet Poke Cake Recipe
61 Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe
62 White Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Cookies Recipe
63 Cherry Almond Cupcake Recipe
64 White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Recipe
65 Crème Brûlée Recipe
66 Red Velvet Poke Cake Recipe
Valentine’s cake ideas
Nothing is sweeter than a slice of delicious cake, especially on Valentine’s Day.
Our angel food cake and pound cake recipes are especially versatile – top them with a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream, chocolate ganache, raspberry sauce, Caramel Sauce, or even some Strawberry Jam!
Get creative with our cakes and suit them to your taste!
67 Cream Puff Cake Recipe
68 Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe
69 Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe
70 Jello Poke Cake Recipe
71 Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe
72 Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake Recipe
73 Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes Recipe
74 Strawberry Butter Cake Recipe
75 Strawberry Cake Recipe
76 Cherry Sheet Cake Recipe
77 Strawberry Pound Cake Recipe
78 Tres Leches Cake
79 Strawberries and Cream Angel Food Cake Recipe
80 Chiffon Cake Recipe
Cookies for Valentines
It is always so fun to whip up a batch of special Valentine cookies to share with those you love! There are plenty of easy and delicious recipes to choose from here to make your day extra sweet!
81 Peanut Butter Hershey Kiss Cookies
82 Red Velvet Cookies Recipe
83 Sugar Cookie Bars
84 Copycat Swig Cookies Recipe
85 Nutella Cookies Recipe
86 Drop Sugar Cookies Recipe
87 Meringue Cookie Recipe
88 Chocolate Dipped Cookies Recipe
89 Strawberry Cookie Recipe
90 Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
91 Red Velvet Cake Mix Cookies Recipe
Chocolate Valentine’s Desserts
You can never go wrong with CHOCOLATE.
We have a variety of chocolate treats here from cakes to chocolate pudding desserts to chocolate cupcakes that would be great for your Valentines celebration.
We are obsessed with our Chocolate Sheet Cake (especially if you are serving lots of people), but we think any of these would be perfect for the sweet day.
92 Brownies and Cream Fruit Trifle Recipe
93 Chocolate Delight Recipe
94 Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies Recipe
95 Nutella Dip Recipe
96 Chocolate Fondue Recipe
97 Dirt Cake Recipe
98 Chocolate Mousse Recipe
99 Oreo Cream Cheese Balls Recipe
100 No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe
101 Best Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
102 Dirt Cake Parfait Recipe
Other Pink And Red Favorites
Second to chocolate, we love to have strawberry, cherry, and raspberry desserts for Valentine’s Day.
I think it has something to do with the RED, and also because both fruits are delicious. We have so many yummy easy Valentine’s Day dessert recipes here on the site that are perfect for the 14th because of that color and goodness.
103 Frozen Strawberry Dessert Recipe
104 Strawberry Shortcake Bars Recipe
105 Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs Recipe
106 Strawberry Shortcake Trifle Recipe
107 Cherry Bars Recipe
108 Cheesecake Cupcakes Recipe
109 Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert Bars
110 Chocolate Covered Cherries Recipe
111 Homemade Sucker Recipe
112 Chocolate Covered Cinnamon Bears Recipe
Our Go-To Valentine’s Day Goodie
Our kids are LOVE cookies, and who can blame them?
When it’s not our class Valentine Cookie, we make our FAVORITE sugar cookies. They’re great for gifting, and we love that they are also great for parties.
Just bring them unfrosted and let everyone frost their own cookie and top with sprinkles!
Here is the recipe:
50+ Valentine’s Day Desserts – Cakes, Cookies and MORE!
Ingredients
Cookie
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Frosting
- 1/3 cup butter softened
- 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Topping
- Red and pink decorating gel, Valentines sprinkles
Instructions
Cookie
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a large bowl or in the bowl of a Kitchen-Aid, cream butter, cream cheese, sugars, egg and almond extract..
- In a separate medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until soft dough forms.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to about 3/8 inch thick. Cut with cookie cutter and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
- Bake 8-10 minutes on greased pan. Let cool.
Frost and decorate
- In a medium bowl. make frosting by mixing all ingredients with hand mixer until smooth. If too thick, add a tad more milk.
- Frost the cookies and top with sprinkles.
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Nutrition
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A Little Something Sweet
There are plenty of desserts to choose from to make Valentine’s Day (or any Valentine’s party for that matter) especially delicious.
We hope you like this list!! Be sure to come back and let us know which one you chose!!
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I was asked to bring a treat to a gal-entines party last week. I found this page and opted to take the shortcake kabobs. They were so easy to make and everyone liked that they weren’t a heavy dessert so it left room for another treat.