27 Valentine's Day Dessert Recipes Better Than a Box of Chocolates

From cheesecake to biscuit to homemade eclairs , we ’ve got the gross romantic Valentine ’s Day sweets for your mantrap .

Jake Sternquist

edulcorate your Valentine ’s Day with a scrumptious , romantic , or heart - pattern dessert formula . Whether your truelove likes rich burnt umber desserts , berry pies , or creme brulee , you ’re certain to win fondness with a delicious Valentine ’s Day dessert .

Strawberry crunch cake

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Red Velvet Cheesecake Bars

These beautiful red velvet bars are the perfectValentine ’s Day kickshaw . Be sure to add a generous mizzle of umber over the delectable cheesecake filling .

Make - Ahead Tip : Bake and freeze this easy dessert up to three calendar month before serving .

Cherry Cobbler

There is nothing better than an old - fashioned cherry shoemaker , so why not try making one this Valentine ’s Day ? Thefruit dessertis topped with spoonfuls of sweet cookie scratch that turn aureate brown when baked . For multifariousness , replace the cherry red with blueberries , sweetheart , or apples .

Tres Leches Cake

This Valentine ’s Day cake recipe is a total showstopper . Layer our fat vanilla patty with piles of whip cream and fresh strawberry sauce .

Test Kitchen Tip : To get the classic flavors and grain of tres letch bar , we advocate soaking the cake for at least three hours or overnight .

Chocolate Bread Pudding

As dessert or a luscious breakfast , this rich chocolatybread puddingis Valentine ’s Day baking on - decimal point . Do n’t skimp on the effete homemade chocolate ganache drizzle .

White-Chocolate Cherry Shortbread

TheseValentine ’s Dayshortbread cookies get their pink and cherry people of colour from maraschino cherry and violent intellectual nourishment color in . ideal and comestible glitter give them an extra holiday - quick touching .

Brownie Pudding Cake

This effete coffee dessert is the perfect combination of tender cake and fudgy deep brown . Coffee or vanilla ice cream and sliced strawberry complete the lenient chocolate Valentine ’s Day dessert .

Jelly Doughnut Cake

Take a love of doughnuts to the next degree . Layers of cream fill and ruby red pickle between soft sensationalistic patty mimic your sweetheart ’s pet breakfast treat .

Chocolate Cannoli

For a fancy finish to yourromantic Valentine ’s Day dinner , serve your loved one a chocolaty twist on classic Italian cannoli . Rolled up with lovemaking in a homemade chocolate shell , creamy ricotta cheese flavored with hot chocolate and orange peel scram a gorgeous garnish from shave dreary chocolate .

Conversation Heart Cut-Out Cookies

Homemade carbohydrate cooky are so much good than confect . Customize your slew with figure , sugared notes , or funny sayings . box them up for a deliciousedible Valentine ’s Day gift .

mental testing Kitchen Tip : We used cookie impress stamp to make the phrases .

White Chocolate Cheesecake with Mixed Berries

Your valentine will be smite with this delightfully plenteous white burnt umber cheesecake recipe . Dip Chuck Berry , like strawberries , raspberries , and blackberries , in ashen chocolate and let set before using them to decorate the finished cheesecake .

Raspberry Mocha Pie

Carson Downing

Fresh raspberries , bittersweet hot chocolate , luscious cream cheese , and rich pip cream down into a bizarre crust for this over - the - top Valentine ’s Day dessert . Top off each slice with pile of refreshful raspberries .

Pick-a-Flavor No-Churn Ice Cream

worst up a batch of homemade chicken feed ointment in just 10 minutes of hands - on time . Customize your dry quart with your pet relish or test one of our recipe combination like salted mocha , wildflower honey , or natal day cake .

Copycat Sugar Cookies

If you ’re a fan of the oversize soft sugar cookie you may come up in shop , this is the copycat cookie formula for you . tincture the mellifluous almond buttercream pinkish for the arrant nod to Valentine ’s Day .

Millionaire Shortbread

Rachel Marek

One referee called this , " the best sweet I had ever eat in my life-time . " It features layers of shortbread , pantry raw sienna , and drinking chocolate . A sprinkle of flaky salt is the perfect finishing touch .

Black Forest Dump Cake

Jason Donnelly . Food Styling : Annie Probst . Prop Styling : Breanna Ghazali

If you need a straightaway Valentine ’s Day afters idea , try this cocoa and cherrydump cake . It starts with a can of cherry pie weft and a corner of devil ’s food cake mix . you could have the whole cake done with just 10 minute of prep .

Schaum Torte

Jason Donnelly

Thisfluffy meringue and ointment cakehas earn Royal Air Force since we published the recipe . As one BHG habitation cook share , " the recipe was utter just as it was written — I used apple cider vinegar , not snowy vinegar . or else of raspberries , I opted for strawberries because that ’s what my gran would have done . "

Deviled Strawberries

Try something other thanchocolate - covered strawberriesthis class ! Here , strawberry halves are topped with a cheesecake - inspired fill . Decorate them with crushed cookies , sprinkles , or chocolate .

Raspberry-Lemon Whoopie Pies

If you be intimate afruit dessert , you must make these razzing whoopie pie for Valentine ’s Day . Fresh hoot bar is fill with fluffy lemon cream and decorated with sprinkles .

Strawberry Hand Pies

There ’s more to pie than the slash . These pretty hand pies are the perfect room to indulge without having to share . We think they ’re comfortably fill with a homemade strawberry filling or chocolate hazelnut tree spread .

Coffee Panna Cottas

There ’s coffee nip throughout this Valentine ’s sweet idea . Start with a dark roast coffee panna cotta and finish with an espressowhipped emollient . Crushed chocolate - handle espresso beans add even more grain and flavor .

Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake

If you ’re hosting a Galentine ’s Day party , examine making this fresh strawberry mainsheet cake . The easy afters serves 24 , and start up with a box of whitecake mixture . As one commentator raves , " Between the fresh fruit and the strawberry mark gelatin , this formula really packs in a lot of hemangioma simplex flavor ! Family well-disposed cake ! "

Oreo Dump Cake

you’re able to lash up a fudgy coffee Valentine ’s Day sweet with just 15 minutes of homework . Thiseasy rubbish dump cake recipeis lade with humbled Oreo cookies , and crown with a condensed Milk River and whipped pick layer .

Strawberry Delight

Brie Goldman

Strawberry delectation is a retro dessert that deserves a spot on your Valentine ’s Day fare . Each chomp is the utter combining of fresh strawberries , cheesecake ointment , andgraham cracker Earth’s crust .

Million Dollar Sugar Cookies

We put our ultimatesugar cookie recipeto the test , and created our most decadent version yet . Thismillion dollar bill recipeis made with soft sugar cookies and an almond buttercream frost . Decorate the cookie with nub sprinkle for the consummate Valentine ’s Day skin senses .

Chocolate Cherry Cola Cake

Blaine Moats

lash up this 3 - constituent sweet in minutes . As one BHG nursing home Captain Cook raves , " This is so simple and my Thomas Kyd love it . I have n’t tried it yet , but desire to swap in dissimilar patty mixing flavor and Proto-Indo European filling . I think it would work well . "

Strawberry Crunch Cake

Our recipe sampler could n’t stop eating thisstrawberry afters . Make it before and add the crunchy topper just before serving . It ’s the sodding pink dessert for Valentine ’s Day .

Conversation Heart Cupcakes

Top thesehomemade vanilla extract cupcakeswith colorful butter frosting and letter - mold sprinkles . Want to try another sapidity ? We ’re also sharing formula variations for coconut and strawberry cupcakes .

Red Velvet Cheesecake Bars