A roundup of all the best Valentine's Day recipes for brunch, dinner, dessert, and cocktails! From pink and red macarons, to chocolate fondue, and sous vide lobster tails, there's something to help you celebrate!
Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse to spoil yourself, your friends, or your partner with a fancy dinner or decadent desserts!
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Valentine's Day Dessert
All of our favorite fun baking recipes for Valentine's Day! From macarons, and cookies, to cupcakes, and pastries! There's a mix of pretty pink and red treats, and a whole lot of chocolate!
Heart Shaped Macarons
These heart shaped macarons have a light French macaron shell filled with creamy white chocolate ganache and decorated with fun Valentine's Day sprinkles!
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Dark Chocolate Fondue Board
In just 10 minutes you can have this rich, creamy dark chocolate fondue! Serve on a board with all your favorite dippers for a romantic Valentine's day spread!
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Heart Shaped Strawberry Hand Pies
These heart shaped strawberry hand pies have strawberry filling sandwiched between two layers of flaky pie crust! Perfect for Valentine's Day!
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Black Forest Cupcakes
These black forest cupcakes have a moist chocolate base, homemade cherry filling with Kirsch, and a light whipped cream topping.
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Heart Shaped Strawberry Shortbread Cookies
These heart shaped strawberry shortbread cookies are made with freeze dried strawberries for a fun, pink Valentine's Day dessert!
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Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes (with ganache center)
These mini chocolate molten lava cakes have a rich chocolate cake with an oozing chocolate ganache center! They're the perfect romantic dessert for Valentine's Day, a birthday, or date night!
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Strawberry Macarons
These strawberry macarons are filled with a super simple cream cheese frosting and homemade strawberry jam!
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Red Wine Brownies
Red wine and chocolate is the best combo! These fudgy red wine brownies are rich, chocolatey, and have a slightly fruity flavor from the wine!
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Raspberry Linzer Cookies
These heart shaped raspberry linzer cookies are perfect for Valentine's Day! With a crumbly almond cookie base and filled with homemade raspberry jam, I promise you won't be able to stop eating them!
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Red Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These red velvet brownies with cream cheese frosting are the perfect combination of my classic fudgy brownies and red velvet cake!
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Chocolate Macarons with Nutella Buttercream
These chocolate macarons are filled with Nutella buttercream and topped with drizzled dark chocolate and chopped hazelnuts.
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Strawberry Shortcake Layer Cake
This southern strawberry shortcake layer cake is topped with whipped mascarpone frosting and juicy macerated strawberries. It's the perfect summer dessert!
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Red Wine Chocolate Macarons
These red wine chocolate macarons have a light French macaron shell filled with rich, red white chocolate ganache. Perfect for date night!
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Heart Shaped Frosted Sugar Cookies
These heart shaped frosted sugar cookies are decorated with pink buttercream frosting and heart themed sprinkles for an easy Valentine's day dessert! These cookies are similar to the iconic Lofthouse style cookies with a soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture and sweet vanilla frosting!
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Chocolate Cherry Macarons
These chocolate cherry macarons have a tender, chocolate French macaron shell and are filled with cherry frosting and homemade cherry compote.
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Mini Chocolate Covered Cream Puffs
These simple cream puffs are made with a choux pastry shell, then filled with whipped cream and topped with melted chocolate.
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Mini Pavlovas
These mini pavlovas are a simple, single serve dessert topped with whipped cream, mixed berry compote, fresh berries, and mint!
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Neapolitan Macarons
These Neapolitan macarons feature chocolate and vanilla macaron shells filled with light, strawberry buttercream! They're perfect for people who hate having to choose between chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry!
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Strawberries and Cream Cupcakes
These strawberries and cream cupcakes have a light, vanilla bean cupcake base filled with homemade strawberry jam and topped with strawberry whipped cream frosting!
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Champagne Macarons
These simple and decadent champagne macarons are filled with creamy champagne buttercream and topped with edible gold paint.
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Rosé Cupcakes
I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of just drinking rosé wine. But reduced down and put into cupcake form? Sign me up! These rosé cupcakes are topped with dried rose petals and just scream elegance. They are the perfect Valentine's Day dessert and surprisingly easy to make!
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French Silk Pie
This rich and creamy chocolate French silk pie has a homemade flaky pie crust, super silky chocolate filling, and is topped with whipped cream and chocolate shavings!
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Chocolate Raspberry Macarons with Chambord
These chocolate raspberry macarons are filled homemade dark chocolate ganache and a tart raspberry compote flavored with Chambord.
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Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies
These red velvet crinkle cookies are a fun twist on classic chocolate crinkles! With crispy edges and soft fudgy centers, they're an easy, fun Christmas cookie that everyone will love! The pretty red color is also perfect for Valentine's Day!
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White Chocolate Rose Macarons
These macarons are filled with white chocolate rose buttercream, then they're drizzled with more white chocolate and topped with dried rose petals.
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Red Wine Chocolate Cake
This red wine chocolate cake has two layers of moist, chocolate cake smothered with whipped red wine chocolate ganache! The red wine imparts a slightly fruity flavor to the dark chocolate, for the most decadent dessert for date night, Valentine's Day, or any random wine Wednesday!
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Giant Conversation Heart Cookie Cake
We’re turning the quintessential Valentine’s Day candy into a must-make dessert with this Giant Conversation Heart Cookie Cake. Enjoy!
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Blood Orange Cardamom Cupcakes
One of my favorite flavor combos is blood orange and cardamom! These blood orange cardamom cupcakes are topped with cream cheese frosting!
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Gluten-free Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing
Soft and buttery gluten-free Valentine’s day sugar cookies decorated in pastel royal icing. Cute and funny sayings on each cookie resembling the heart-shaped conversation candies we know and love!
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Red Velvet Macarons
These red velvet macarons are filled with cream cheese frosting and drizzled with white chocolate!
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Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
These decadent red velvet cupcakes are extra moist and delicious! With tangy cream cheese frosting that isn't too sweet, these are sure to be a crowd pleaser!
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Valentine's Day Brunch
Our favorite pink and red recipes for your at home Valentine's Day breakfast or brunch spread! From strawberry waffles to heart shaped donuts!
Heart Shaped Donuts
These heart shaped donuts are deep fried to perfection, then dunked in a pretty pink glaze for the perfect Valentine's Day treat!
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Strawberry Waffles
These light and fluffy ombre waffles are naturally colored with freeze dried strawberries and topped with homemade strawberry syrup and whipped cream! They're perfect for your Valentine's Day brunch!
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Chocolate Cherry Muffins
There is no better pairing than chocolate and cherries and they both go perfectly in muffins!
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Blood Orange Sweet Rolls
These blood orange sweet rolls are filled with orange zest, sugar, and pecans, then topped with tangy blood orange cream cheese icing!
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Mini Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookies
These mini chocolate chip skillet cookies have crispy edges, soft gooey centers, and an abundance of melty chocolate chips! The warm skillet cookies are topped with vanilla ice cream for the ultimate date-night treat! They're a fun, easy dessert for any occasion that comes together in just 20 minutes!
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Mini Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
These mini red velvet cupcakes are topped with tangy cream cheese frosting and make the perfect bite-size treat for any occasion from birthdays to Valentine's Day!
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Valentine's Day Dinner
All the best recipes for a romantic Valentine's Day date night! From steak and lobster to homemade risotto!
Butter Poached Sous Vide Lobster Tail
Sous Vide Lobster Tails sound fancy, but are shockingly easy to make! With the magic of sous vide, you won’t worry about a rubbery disaster. The perfect meal for a romantic evening at home!
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Roasted Chicken and Peaches
This chicken is marinated in Greek yogurt and balsamic vinegar and roasted with peaches and shallots, then topped with fresh basil for a slightly sweet but super savory summer meal!
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Sous Vide Filet Mignon with Garlic & Herb Butter
This sous vide filet mignon with delicious herb butter produces the most incredibly tender and flavorful filet mignon you’ve ever had!
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Mushroom Risotto
This creamy mushroom risotto is loaded with parmesan cheese and topped with crispy shiitake mushrooms. It's the perfect cozy meal!
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Valentine's Day Drinks & Cocktails
All our favorite red and pink drinks and cocktails that are perfect for celebrating! From hibiscus tea lattes to strawberry frosé!
Pink Sangria with Rosé Wine
This pink rosé sangria is the perfect refreshing cocktail for any summertime party or girls night! Made with rosé wine, vodka, and berries it has the prettiest pale pink color!
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Strawberry Frosé (Frozen Rosé)
This strawberry frosé is the perfect summertime frozen cocktail!! Frosé (aka frozen rosé) is basically just a refreshing, grown-up slushie!
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Blood Orange Bourbon Smash
This blood orange bourbon smash is light, bright, and citrusy! Garnished with fresh blood oranges and mint, it's perfect for any occasion!
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Strawberries and Cream Cocktail with Bailey's
These frozen strawberries and cream cocktails have Bailey's Irish Cream, vodka, and vanilla ice cream for a sweet summer treat!
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Love Potion Cocktail
This raspberry cocktail is made with vodka, Chambord (raspberry liqueur), and ginger beer. I also added dry ice to make it a fun "love potion" cocktail for Valentine's Day!
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Blood Orange Vodka Sour
This blood orange vodka sour is light, a little tangy, and super smooth thanks to the egg whites! It's perfect for date night or Sunday brunch!
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Heart Shaped Rosé Gummies
These heart shaped rosé gummies are my new obsession! Not only are they adorable but they taste just like rosé wine! They are super fun and easy to make and only need 3 simple ingredients! They really are the perfect Valentine's Day treat!!
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Grapefruit Paloma
This grapefruit paloma is a simple, refreshing alternative to most other tequila based cocktails. Perfect for sipping all summer long!
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Pink Flamingo Drink
A fruity and boozy drink, the flamingo cocktail is an easy summer cocktail that’s also easily turned into your next cookout’s party punch!
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Strawberry Basil Mojito
This strawberry basil mojito is light, refreshing, and the perfect summer cocktail! Made with homemade strawberry simple syrup!
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