Valentine's day is the perfect time to enjoy sweet treats! All these Valentine's day desserts are festively designed and irresistibly delicious. From heart shaped cookies to indulgent chocolate mousse, there's something for everyone.
How to Make Valentine's Desserts:
While all these desserts are specifically created for Valentine's day, it's easy to make any treat into a Valentine's dessert!
Here's a few simple ways to do it:
- Add holiday sprinkles - Red, white, pink, and heart sprinkles work great! You can sprinkle them on top or add them into cookie or cake batter. Find them at craft stores like Michael's or Hobby Lobby.
- Add strawberries or raspberries - These berries add a pop of bright red! And they taste great on chocolate desserts or layer cakes.
- Food coloring - Add a drop of red to cookies, cakes, or muffins for a pink hue.
- Chocolate hearts - Press a chocolate heart into the center of sugar cookies after they finish baking. Chill them so they don't melt the chocolate.
- Sanding sugar - Roll sugar cookie dough in red or pink sanding sugar before you bake it.
- Cookie cutter - Any roll out cookie can be cut into festive shapes like hearts or lips.
Valentine's Day Dessert Recipes:
All of these Valentine's day treats are dressed up for Valentine's day, whether in color or shape! Some are shaped like hearts and others are dressed in pink and red.
All of them taste delicious too! Here's 17 must-try desserts for a little pep this Valentine's Day!
1. Lightened Up Strawberry Crunch Cake
This strawberry crunch cake is as good as it looks!
It features creamy vanilla frosting in between layers of sweet strawberry cake with a shortcake crumb coating. It's inspired by Good Humor's strawberry shortcake bars!
It's lightened up with sugar-free strawberry gelatin mix and vanilla protein powder.
2. Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookies
These adorable heart cookies are more than just cute, they're delicious!
Regular chocolate chips are swapped with mini chocolate chips to make rolling the cookie dough easy. The edges are golden brown and crisp while the middles are soft and chewy.
Everyone loves an amazing chocolate chip cookie!
3. Valentine's Day Cake Pops
You only need four ingredients to make these easy, fun cake pops!
The kids can help mix in the frosting, roll the dough into balls, and dip the pops in melted candy wafers.
These strawberry cake pops are so tasty and festive.
4. Homemade Peanut Butter Cup Hearts
If you love Reese's peanut butter cups, you'll love these homemade chocolate peanut butter hearts!
You don't have to temper any chocolate for these. Just use Ghirardelli melting wafers to keep things simple!
These would be super fun to make for a Galentine's party!
5. Valentine's Day Trail Mix
This festive trail mix is perfect for sweet kiddos!
It's full of kid-friendly snacks like strawberry cheerios, freeze-dried strawberries, chocolate covered pretzels, and roasted almonds.
It's full of pinkish hues and my 5 year old loves it!
6. Decadent Chocolate Mousse
This chocolate mousse is luxurious! It's ultra-chocolatey and velvety smooth with a pillowy texture.
The best part? You can make it ahead of time! Just pipe it into cute little cups or ramekins and chill until you're ready to enjoy it.
Add chocolate shavings and pomegranate seeds for a festive touch!
7. Mascarpone Stuffed Strawberries
These adorable little strawberries tastes like a no-bake cheesecake! The filling is made with creamy mascarpone and powdered sugar.
You can top them with festive sprinkles or heart-shaped candies. I let my kids help with the piping and we all enjoy them after dinner!
8. Valentine M&M Cookies
A super simple way to celebrate Valentine's day is to add Valentine's M&M's to cookies! They add a vibrant pop of pink, red, and white.
These chocolate chip M&M cookies are soft, chewy, rich, and perfectly sweet. They get devoured in no time!
9. Chocolate Strawberry Tartlets
Buttery shortbread, rich chocolate ganache, juicy strawberries - it's a match made in chocolate heaven!
These mini chocolate strawberry tarts are beautiful, easy, and oh-so delicious!
10. Brownie Cakesicles
These brownie cakesicles are decadent, fudgy, and super cute! You can change up the colors to suit any holiday or celebration.
Kids and adults love these adorable hand-held treats. You can make them up to a week ahead of time too!
11. Strawberry White Chocolate Cookies
Fresh strawberries and white chocolate make a fantastic cookie! These are great for Valentine's who love fruit-based desserts.
They taste like a strawberry shortcake and a cookie had a baby.
12. Pink Vodka Drink
This rose colored cocktail is made with just three simple ingredients - vanilla vodka, white cran-strawberry, and freshly squeezed lemon juice.
It's sweet, tangy, and easy to customize! If you're not into vodka, you can swap it out with prosecco or gin.
13. Valentine's Day Chocolate Bark
This cute chocolate bark is so bright and fun with a pop of raspberry flavor! It uses Ghirardelli candy wafers for their superior flavor and oil based food coloring.
If you avoid food dyes, you could totally make the top white and still get a pop of color from the freeze-dried raspberries.
14. Heart Shaped Linzer Cookies
Linzer cookies are fun to make and eat! They're made of buttery shortbread with a heart cut out of the top so you can see the filling.
These are filled with raspberry jam, but any type of jam works great, or even Nutella!
15. Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers
Chocolate covered graham crackers are a classic and they're easy to customize! Top them with red sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, cacao nibs, or freeze-dried raspberries.
These make adorable gifts for friends or loved-ones on Valentine's day!
16. Angel Food Cake
Angel food cake is the opposite of decadent, but it's so satisfying! It's light, fluffy, and pillowy with the perfect sweetness.
Dress it up with bright red strawberries and powdered sugar for a thoughtful Valentine's day treat.
17. Strawberry Sundaes
A childhood classic! Vanilla ice cream layered with homemade strawberry sauce, whipped cream, and strawberries!
These sundaes are so fun to make and eat with your kiddos.
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