What to cook for Valentine's Day: recipes for original sweet dishes and desserts for Lovers. Desserts for Valentine's Day Delicious dessert for Valentine's Day

I was told how to make pizza for Valentine's Day at a women's club on the eve of the holiday. Basically, you just need to make the dough in the shape of a heart, and then let your imagination run wild. Here's my example.

A quick recipe for making a very beautiful sweet from dark and white chocolate with coffee.

Strawberry pie for February 14th - sweet, the color of passion, tender and the most delicious! Please your loved one, make his life a sweet fairy tale. And Valentine's Day is the best reason to pamper him or her.

Recipe for financiers - small French sponge cakes. Please your soulmate on Valentine's Day!

Lemon dessert is a wonderful treat that we can prepare in about an hour. The dessert consists of lemon cream, sprinkled with shortcrust pastry crumbs and covered with a fluffy protein layer.

Recipe for making heart-shaped cookies for February 14th with walnuts, rosemary and vanilla.

Today I’ll tell you how to make a pie for February 14th - International Valentine’s Day. The pie turns out delicious, but its main feature is that you can cut out very beautiful hearts from it. Try it!

Recipe for holiday heart-shaped cookies with vanilla and dried cranberries.

Recipe for lobster with lemon - preparing a festive Italian dinner for February 14 (Valentine's Day) of lobster with butter and lemon wedges.

A quick recipe for white fish with lemon zest, lemon juice, almonds and parsley. The dish is suitable for a festive dinner for two happy people.

I love goat cheese and cherry tomato tartlets. This is an amazing appetizer for your guests and loved ones, which is very easy to prepare. I’m sharing a simple recipe!

Strawberry Yogurt Cake Recipe. A cake with a very delicate and pleasant taste of strawberries and yogurt. Suitable for a romantic dinner.

Delicious chocolate truffles with rum can not only be bought in the store, but also prepared at home. You'll be amazed at how easy these delicious French chocolates are to make.

Macarons are delicious French pastries made from two cookies joined by chocolate. The cookie dough is made from almond flour and egg whites. A very tasty treat!

Please your soulmate on this amazing holiday - bake very beautiful, tasty and impressive chocolate cookies for Valentine's Day. The sweet tooth's heart will be conquered once and for all :)

Recipe for making meringues with raspberry extract and chocolate candies inside. Sweet, melt-in-your-mouth meringues make a great dessert for Valentine's Day.

Great Wall of Chocolate Cake

The Great Wall of Chocolate cake is a very original and unusual cake, which is now wildly popular in America. You've definitely never tried anything like this before!

Chocolate fondue recipe - preparing a delicate fondue from chocolate, cream and cognac. Chocolate fondue is a romantic dish for two happy people.

Cake "Raffaello"

A light and delicious cake with cream and coconut flakes, reminiscent of the taste of famous candies. The Raffaello cake is perfect for a festive table or a romantic dinner.

Homemade Raffaello recipe

Homemade Raffaello recipe. A surprisingly simple and very tasty dessert that will organically complete a romantic meal (for example, on Valentine's Day).

Chocolate brownie recipe - making a chocolate brownie with frosting for Valentine's Day. Delicious holiday dessert.

Recipe for making a cake with chocolate, chocolate-cream mousse, raspberries and currant jam. Good for a romantic dinner.

I once worked as a waiter in an expensive St. Petersburg restaurant, where for some reason all the guests ordered warm chicken salad. Since then I have had the feeling that this is the most popular salad in the world :)

I offer a recipe for a delicious pie with lemon filling. It is quite easy to prepare. The ingredients for making the pie are simple, the taste is delicious, and the calorie content is not very high.

Pizza "Favorite"

Pizza "Favorite" is a very impressive, cute and tasty pizza that is well suited for a romantic dinner (for example, in honor of February 14 - Valentine's Day). Both beautiful and very tasty.

Caesar salad with shrimp

Recipe for Caesar salad with shrimp. An excellent salad for a holiday table or a romantic dinner.

Cake "Milk Girl"

Already by the name you can guess that the “Milk Girl” cake is a very light, airy milk cake. By the way, otherwise it is also called a cake for lovers. I am sharing the cake recipe.

Cherry roll is a very tasty thing that I usually make from drunken cherries. The roll is prepared quite simply, quickly and without much effort. I'm telling you how to make cherry roll.

Cookies with cherries according to this recipe turns everyday life into a beautiful fairy tale. Very beautiful, cute shortcrust pastry cookies can decorate any holiday table and bring joy.

Chicken breasts in cream and cheese are an easy-to-prepare, but practically delicious dish. Great for a romantic dinner with a bottle of wine.

Recipe for making white hot chocolate with milk, cream, fresh strawberries and whipped cream hearts.

Recipe for making heart-shaped holiday meringues with vanilla and ice cream.

Recipe for making heart-shaped cookies with fruit jam for Valentine's Day.

Double chocolate brownie recipe for Valentine's Day.

I love truffle candies! And when I first decided to make them myself, I really regretted it, out of happiness I gained two kilograms in the evening :)) I don’t make such mistakes anymore, but I continue to prepare them!

Thin crust pizza according to this recipe turns out very tasty - just like in pizzerias. For a long time I was looking for a recipe that would make pizza indistinguishable from restaurant ones - and I finally found it!

Recipe for making holiday truffles for February 14th from chocolate, cream, champagne and sugar.

Strasbourg plum pie is a delicious and simple cottage cheese pie made with fresh plums. The pie dough is made from flour, margarine, sugar and one egg. Everything is simple and brilliant!

Beef tartlet recipe - preparing a festive dish for February 14 (Valentine's Day) from tartlets with beef, mushrooms and thyme.

Don't know how to surprise your guests? The recipe for pears in wine is a great idea. An alternative way to serve the usual fruit - no special products are needed, but the result will please even a gourmet.

Truffles are an exquisite delicacy, but it turns out you can make them at home with your own hands. Dedicated to all those with a sweet tooth!

Chocolate dessert "For two"

Chocolate cakes prepared at home together are a wonderful treat for lovers. Simple and delicious!

Chocolate macarons are always a holiday in our house. Buying a French dessert today is not difficult, but making your own chocolate macarons at home is already a sacred process!

Recipe for making heart-shaped cookies with chocolate.

Chicken aspic "Heart"

A recipe for a very beautiful chicken aspic that can decorate any holiday table.

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Very soon, all over the world, couples in love will celebrate Valentine's Day, arranging romantic surprises for each other and giving each other gifts. Valentine's Day is another reason to please your “other half” with a romantic dinner. We offer you recipes that are perfect for this holiday!

Double layer jelly with strawberries

Ingredients:

450 g strawberries
250 ml cream 10% fat
120 g sugar
half a vanilla pod
1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
3.5 tsp. gelatin

Preparation:

Pour in 1.5 tsp. gelatin 3 tbsp. l. cream and leave for 10 minutes. Cut the vanilla bean in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds. Place the remaining cream, 50g sugar and vanilla seeds in a saucepan and heat, but do not boil.
Pour hot cream into gelatin and stir. Gelatin should completely dissolve. Strain the mixture through a sieve. Place the silicone mold on a tray. Fill the mold halfway with the cream mixture. Cool and refrigerate for 2 hours. The jelly should almost completely harden.
Set aside 200 g of strawberries. Cut the rest into small cubes.
Place the strawberries in a saucepan, add 250ml water, lemon juice and the remaining sugar. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and leave for 10 minutes. under the lid.
At this time, soak the remaining gelatin in 3 tbsp. l. water and leave for 10 minutes. for swelling. Add gelatin to the saucepan with strawberries and stir until completely dissolved. Strain through a sieve and cool completely. Pour the cold mixture into the jelly mold and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Remove the jelly mold from the refrigerator 10 minutes before. before serving. Carefully invert onto a plate. Slice the remaining strawberries and decorate the jelly with them.

Mini Cheesecakes for Valentine's Day

Ingredients:

For the base:

shortbread cookies 150 g
butter 60 g
For cream:
cream cheese 500 g
cream 33% 200 ml
white chocolate 80 g
vanilla to taste
sugar to taste
gelatin 8 g

For the jelly:

berries 250 g
gelatin 6 g
sugar 50 g

Preparation:

Break the cookies into pieces and grind in a blender until crumbly. Melt the butter and mix thoroughly with the shortbread crumbs. We spread the mixture into the molds, level it and compact it with our fingers.
Place in the freezer for 30 minutes. To prepare the cream cheese cream, soak the gelatin in cold boiled water for 20-30 minutes. Pour 100 ml of cream into a saucepan, heat it, add white chocolate and stir until smooth.
Add gelatin, heat until completely dissolved (but do not boil) and remove from heat. Add cream cheese, vanilla and whisk.
Whip the remaining 100 ml of cream to soft peaks and carefully mix into the cream cheese cream. If desired, you can add a little more sugar. Place the resulting buttercream into molds, leaving room for the berry jelly.
Place the molds in the refrigerator for several hours to harden or in the freezer for 20 minutes. When the cream begins to harden, prepare the berry jelly. To do this, soak the gelatin in cold boiled water for 20-30 minutes. Cover the berries with sugar and heat over low heat for 7-10 minutes. Then grind them in a blender, mix with gelatin and stir until it dissolves. Cool the berry puree to room temperature and pour the buttercream into the molds.
Decorate with whole berries, left for decoration and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. To remove the mini cheesecakes from the silicone molds, you need to run a sharp knife along the edge and lift it up a little.

Tiramisu with liqueur

Ingredients:

Powdered sugar – 100g.
Egg – 4 pcs.
Cookies (biscuit) – 0.5 kg.
Mascarpone – 250g.
Chocolate liqueur – 250g.
Black and white chocolate for decoration
Strawberries or pineapple for decoration

Preparation:

Separate the whites and yolks. Beat the yolk and sugar at low speed. We start adding cheese little by little. The cream should come out airy. Separately, beat the whites with salt and mix with the cheese cream. Soak the finished biscuit cookies (take half of the total weight) with chocolate liqueur. Pour the liqueur into a plate and dip the cookies into it. Place the soaked cookies on the bottom of the bowl. Place cream on top. Repeat layers 2-3 times. After this, put the tiramisu in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Before serving, decorate with fresh fruit and grated chocolate.

Chocolate candies with cherries

Ingredients:

Fresh cherries – 200g.
Sponge cake – 1 pc.
Yolk – 1 pc.
Dark chocolate – 200g.
Butter – 100g.
Powdered sugar – 100g.
Cognac – 50g.

Preparation:

Grind the finished cake into crumbs. This can be done using parchment and a rolling pin, or you can simply break it with your hands. Pour cognac into the crumbs so that it saturates the entire dough. Let it soak for an hour. Beat butter with egg yolk and sugar. Mix with cognac crumbs. Break the chocolate and melt it. Pour some into the dough. We wash the cherries and remove the pits. Carefully coat each cherry with biscuit crumbs. Using a spoon, dip the candies into the chocolate. You can sprinkle them with ground almonds. The candies should set in the cold for 30 minutes.

Meringue cake “Heart”

Ingredients:

Eggs - 4 pcs.
Sugar - 1 glass
Powdered sugar - ¼ cup
Cream of tartar - ¼ tsp.
Whipped cream - 1.5 cups
Cream cheese, softened - 115 g
White chocolate - 85 g
Canned raspberries - 600 g
Fresh strawberries - 2 cups
Fresh mint sprigs optional

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 140 degrees. Take a baking dish with a diameter of about 25 cm and place parchment paper in it. To make the meringue, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy using an electric mixer. Add 1 tablespoon granulated sugar and beat for about 6 minutes until glossy. Place the meringue in a baking dish and form a heart shell, the inside should be empty. Bake the meringue for 45-50 minutes or until the heart is dry to the touch. Turn off the heat and let it sit in the covered oven for 1 hour. Cool completely for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, beat the cream with an electric mixer on high speed. In another bowl, beat cream cheese and powdered sugar on medium speed. Melt white chocolate and combine with cream cheese, beat until smooth. Stir in whipped cream. Carefully remove the heart from the parchment paper and place it on a plate. Spread the mixture evenly into the meringue shell. Cover the heart with a cap and place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Mix canned raspberries and strawberries. Decorate the finished heart with 1.5 cups of the mixture. Stick in a sprig of mint. Place the remaining berry mixture in a bowl and serve separately.

Chocolate dessert with heart-shaped custard

Ingredients:

Butter - 100 g + 15 g
Dark chocolate - 100 g
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.
Eggs - 2 pcs.
Egg yolks - 2 pcs. + 2 pcs.
Wheat flour - 100 g
Milk - 250 ml
Sugar - 40 g
Vanilla extract - 1 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

You should start by preparing the custard. Beat 2 egg yolks and sugar thoroughly using a mixer. Combine milk and vanilla extract in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and pour in mixture of yolks and sugar, beat until smooth. Place the pan back on the heat and simmer over low heat for 3-4 minutes until thickened, stirring all the time to prevent the cream from sticking to the bottom. Remove from heat and pour into a jug, cover and cool.
We are preparing a chocolate dessert. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Grease a heart-shaped silicone mold with melted butter (15 g). Sprinkle the inside of the pan with a little cocoa powder. Place the chocolate and chopped butter in a saucepan and melt everything together over a double boiler. Once the mixture has melted, remove it from the heat and let cool for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, beat the eggs and 2 egg yolks thoroughly in a separate bowl. Sift the flour there and whisk until smooth. Pour in melted chocolate and butter, mix well.
Fill the prepared dessert mold with dough.
Bake dessert for 12-15 minutes or until light brown on top. But it should be a little runny in the middle, the toothpick should come out a little unclean from the center.
Remove the chocolate dessert from the oven and let cool for 2-3 minutes, then transfer to a serving plate.
Whisk the custard, then pour over the chocolate dessert. Serve immediately afterwards. Bon appetit!

French toast with raspberries, chocolate and cream cheese

Ingredients:

Bread 6 slices
Raspberry jam 3 tsp.
Cream cheese 3 tbsp. l.
Chocolate chips 1-2 tsp.
Eggs 2 pcs.
Milk 1/3 cup
Almond extract 1/4 tsp.
Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp.
Ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp.
Salt 1 pinch
Butter 1/2 tbsp. l.
Powdered sugar to taste (for decoration)
Syrup to taste (for decoration)
Fresh berries to taste (for decoration)

Preparation:

1. Take a heart-shaped cutter 8-10 mm in diameter and cut out hearts from slices of bread.
2. Spread 1 tablespoon of cream cheese onto 3 of the 6 slices. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
3. Spread 1 teaspoon of raspberry jam on the other 3 slices of bread. Stick the raspberry jam and cream cheese slices together and press down slightly.
4. Beat the eggs. Mix them with milk, almond and vanilla extract, salt and cinnamon. Dip the French toast into the egg mixture until the bread slices are thoroughly coated.
5. Take a frying pan and melt butter in it. Fry the French toast until golden brown and flip to the other side.
6. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Place the grill on top. Bake in the oven until desired doneness.
7. Place the French toast on a plate and sprinkle some powdered sugar on top to decorate. You can also use syrup and fresh berries for decoration. Bon appetit!

Bird's milk cakes

Ingredients:

Biscuit:
2 eggs
0.5 tbsp. flour
0.5 tbsp. Sahara
0.5 tsp soda

Souffle:
3 squirrels
2/3 tbsp. Sahara
1 tbsp. gelatin (with a slide)
a couple of drops of lemon
50 g chocolate
2 tbsp. jam (any kind, I used blueberry)

Glaze:
50 g chocolate
2 tbsp cream (10%)
0.5 tsp vegetable oil

Preparation:

1. Separate the whites from the yolks and beat in a dry bowl with a pinch of salt into a strong foam. Then add sugar in small portions and continue whisking until it dissolves. Lightly beat the yolks with a mixer, add to the whites and mix gently with a spatula. Then gradually sift the flour and soda and continue mixing with a spatula.
2. Place the dough in buttered molds and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool the finished biscuits.
3. Pour gelatin into 50 ml of cold boiled water and leave to swell. To prepare the soufflé, beat the whites with drops of lemon juice into a strong foam, then add sugar little by little. Heat the gelatin over low heat and stir until completely dissolved (without boiling). Cool the gelatin to room temperature and add to the beaten egg whites, continuing to beat. Divide the mixture into three equal parts, and add jam to one, and chocolate melted in a water bath to the other.
4. We don’t touch the third one. Now we fill our prepared molds with the soufflé. Place the molds in the refrigerator until completely set or in the freezer for 20 minutes. At this time you can prepare the glaze. To do this, mix chocolate, vegetable oil and cream in a water bath. Bring the mixture until smooth and cool to room temperature.
5. When the soufflé has hardened, remove the cakes and pour glaze over each cake. I also decorated the cakes with “chocolate lace”. They are very simple to make; to do this, you need to put the chocolate in a thin small bag, and put the bag in a glass of boiling water for 2 minutes. Then we cut a corner of the bag and make patterns on parchment paper (they can be drawn in advance with a pencil). When the patterns are ready, put them in the cold to harden. Remove the frozen “chocolate lace” from the parchment paper and decorate the cakes.

Chocolate cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup flour ¼ cup cocoa powder ¼ cup brown sugar ½ tsp. baking powder pinch of salt 100 grams of dark chocolate 50 grams of butter 1 egg

Preparation:

Mix flour with cocoa, baking powder and soda. Dissolve chocolate with butter and sugar in a water bath. Stir until the mixture becomes homogeneous. Cool and add the egg, mix with a mixer. Gradually add cocoa and flour mixture. Form the dough into a ball and divide it into 2 parts. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm and place in the freezer for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cut out hearts from the dough using a special shape. Bake for about 10 minutes.

Chocolate panna cotta from Flavor

Ingredients:

½ cup heavy cream ¼ cup milk 60 g dark chocolate, chopped 3 teaspoons powdered sugar ¾ teaspoon gelatin 1 tablespoon freshly boiled water chocolate hearts, strawberries - for serving

Preparation:

Lightly grease 2 silicone heart molds, each about ½ cup capacity. Place the molds on a baking sheet. In a small saucepan, combine cream, milk, chocolate and powdered sugar. Stir over low heat until smooth. Don't boil. In a small, deep bowl, quickly whisk the gelatin with boiling water with a fork until it dissolves. Cool slightly. Mix with creamy mixture. Place the finished mixture into molds. Refrigerate, covered, for 3 hours or overnight. Before serving, carefully transfer the finished panna cotta from the molds to serving dishes and decorate with chocolate hearts and strawberries. To prepare the chocolate hearts, line a baking tray with baking paper. Pipe the outlines of the hearts onto the baking sheet using melted chocolate (do not heat above 55°C) and a piping bag with a corner cut off for pipetting. Refrigerate the hearts until they are completely set.

Tartlets "Raspberry mood"

Ingredients:

Raspberry jam - 300 g

Water - 2 tbsp. l.

Yolk - 1 pc.

Butter - 75 g

Orange - 1/2

Sugar - 75 g

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp.

Flour - 150 g

Preparation:

Sift the flour and mix with baking powder.

Add powdered sugar, orange zest, orange juice, butter, yolk and water. Knead the dough.

Roll out the finished dough into a layer and cut out circles.

Transfer the dough circles into tartlet tins and form sides.

Bake the tartlets at 180°C for 15 minutes.

Grease the finished tartlets with raspberry jam and place the frozen cream in the shape of hearts on them.

Sprinkle the sides of the tartlets with coconut.

Raspberry cream (4 g gelatin, 200 g raspberry puree, 60 g sugar, 3 yolks, 1 egg, 75 g butter, 100 g coconut)

Bring raspberry puree with sugar to a boil on the stove and remove from heat. Soak the gelatin in a small amount of water until it swells. Add egg, yolks and gelatin to raspberry puree. Mix everything. Strain the resulting mixture and beat in a mixer with butter until the cream has cooled. Pour the cream into a silicone mold into heart shapes and let it harden.

"Rose garden"

Ingredients: (6 servings)

250 g biscuits

2 yolks

100 g soft butter

0.5 tsp. vanillin and

2 tbsp. l. strong black coffee

Preparation:

Grind 250 g of biscuit cookies in a food processor, combine with 2 yolks, 100 g of soft butter, 0.5 tsp. vanilla and 2 tbsp. l. strong black coffee. Mix the ingredients thoroughly, place in a mold, keep in the refrigerator for 3 hours, and before serving, decorate with 50 g of walnut kernels and small rose buds.

Some original ideas for decorating dishes for Valentine's Day:

Desserts are a must for a romantic dinner. After all, sweets and love are actually synonymous. Sweet delicacies are enough to make your love celebration at the highest level. Show your other half with desserts how much sweet pleasure you are ready to give her.

Desserts are a great weapon when winning someone's heart. Hopefully your loved one isn't one of the tiny 4% of the world's population that hates sweets, then you just have to whip up a sweet treat on February 14th.

It is quite difficult to decide on the choice of sweet dish that you will prepare on Valentine's Day. There are tens of thousands of dessert recipes in the world. For more than three hundred years, sweets have been an indispensable gift on Love Day. They differed in taste, but all the desserts had one thing in common - they were made in the shape of a heart.

In modern times, it is customary to present cakes and gingerbread to each other. Fortune telling using sweets is popular in Europe. When cooked, small messages are placed in them. Thus, you can even find out when you are destined to get married.

Of course, before the holidays, store shelves will break under the weight of all kinds of sweets. But apart from beauty and taste, they do not contain the most important and important component for Valentine’s Day - the soul. Therefore, if you have already started preparing a surprise for a person close to you, then prepare it with your own hands and exclusively with positive emotions.

Recipes

Why stop at dessert on Valentine's Day? Because these sweets contain a large number of aphrodisiacs. Just think: coffee, strawberries, cognac. All these ingredients can drive anyone crazy. Desserts will be great

Strawberry shortcake

Ingredients:

• Baking powder - a pinch
• Flour – 250g.
• Salt - a pinch
• Sugar – 1-2 tbsp.
• Butter – 60g.
• Milk – 125ml.
• Cream – 500g.
• Vanilla
• Strawberries – 500g.
• Mint for decoration

Making strawberry shortcake:

1. Immediately turn on the oven. Set the temperature to 230 degrees.
2. Sift the flour, add sugar and salt.
3. Pour milk at room temperature in a thin stream. Knead the dough. It should turn out soft.
4. Roll out the dough and cut out hearts. Bake for eight minutes.
5. Mix the cream with sugar and vanilla and beat until stable foam.
6. Cut the strawberries into slices.
7. Cut each heart in half, place it on one side, then a layer of cream, cover with the other half of the heart, top with cream and place a whole strawberry on the top layer.
8. Garnish with mint and serve on a beautiful dessert plate.

Tiramisu with liqueur

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar – 100g.
• Egg – 4 pcs.
• Cookies (biscuit) – 0.5 kg.
• Mascarpone – 250g.
• Chocolate liqueur – 250g.
• Black and white chocolate for decoration
• Strawberries or pineapple for decoration

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Separate the whites and yolks of the eggs.
2. Pour 5 tbsp into the yolks. boiling water and quickly beat, adding 150g of sugar.
3. Beat the whites separately as usual and combine with the yolks.
4. Add flour, baking powder and cocoa powder to the eggs.
5. Mix the dough. For the cake, take a heart-shaped mold. Pour the dough into it and bake for 30 minutes.
6. After the cake has cooled, cut it into 2 parts.
7. Grease the first cake with cream and cover with the second half.
8. We also coat the second cake layer with cream on top, then lay out the bananas cut into slices and another layer of cream on top.
9. Sprinkle with cocoa and leave to soak for 5 hours.

Such sweet desserts will appeal to all people. Do not know, ? Read the next article.

Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14th around the world. On this day it is customary to give each other gifts, flowers, and valentines. Along with store-bought gifts, handmade gifts are also valued: valentines, boxes, etc. Well, girls can also surprise you with masterly cakes and cookies in the shape of hearts, symbolizing this wonderful holiday. Thinking about the menu for your romantic dinner? We present to your attention the best desserts for Valentine's Day.

Strawberries are a favorite delicacy for most people and are perfect for a romantic dinner like nothing else. You can simply serve the strawberries with chocolate, chocolate mousse or whipped cream.

You can cut the strawberries into a heart shape and pour chocolate over them.

In addition, strawberries completely dipped in chocolate look good - a strawberry chocolate bar; you can not only serve it as a dessert for a romantic dinner, but also give it to someone on Valentine's Day.

Or you can make fruit and chocolate skewers: just alternate strawberries, marshmallows, a piece of cake or roll. A simple, beautiful, and most importantly easy dessert for Valentine's Day.

Shish kebab can be made purely from fruit - you will get a beautiful fruit dessert.

In addition, you can make beautiful ladybugs from strawberries and chocolate. Ready-made strawberry-chocolate ladybugs can be decorated with cakes, cakes, or served as an independent dessert.

In a similar way (with chocolate decorations) you can decorate beautiful edible pink buns. The basis for such buns is simple: mix the cake with whipped cream or some sweet syrup - you should get a truffle consistency, form balls, dip them in melted chocolate and roll in coconut flakes. On parchment paper, make feet, eyes, horns or antennae out of chocolate and let them harden. Then we decorate, the finished koloboks can again be served as an independent dessert or used to decorate cupcakes with them.

Or you can make a decoration for cupcakes from chocolate alone, just make chocolate hearts - just their outline or fill the middle with chocolate.

If you don't like fiddling with chocolate, you can decorate the cupcakes using hearts cut from a ready-made flat piece of dough. In this way, you can decorate the cupcakes not only on the outside, but also on the inside (we dip the hearts from the finished dough into the batter and then bake).

Or you can cut off the top of the cupcake, squeeze out a heart in it, put cream or whipped cream on the bottom, and press it on top with a top with a heart-shaped hole.

You can make a beautiful cake with a heart-shaped decoration inside. To do this, you need to bake white and red cakes (approximately: 4 round, 1 red). Grind the red cake into crumbs. We fold the white cakes in twos, covering them with cream, then, as shown in the photo, we cut out holes in them (in some there is a cone-shaped depression, in others we leave a raised area in the middle). We fill the empty space with a mixture of red crumbs (you can mix them with condensed milk or some kind of syrup). This makes a beautiful dessert for Valentine's Day.

You can bake the cake itself in the shape of a heart: fold two cake layers together or one thick one, cut out a heart on top, as shown in photo No. 1. Next, spread it with chocolate cream on all sides, sprinkle with chocolate chips on all sides, place strawberry pieces, whipped cream on top, chocolate chips and again strawberry pieces. You can serve it this way (photo No. 6), or you can work hard and make a “lid” out of chocolate. We make a thick heart from melted chocolate on parchment paper (you can pour chocolate into a heart-shaped mold, the same one you used to bake the cake in), decorate the half-frozen milk chocolate with white chocolate. When the “lid” hardens, cover the cake with it. A simple dessert in principle, but such an impressive and beautiful way to serve dessert on Valentine's Day or during a romantic dinner on any other day.

In fact, if you have heart-shaped molds, making dessert for Valentine's Day should not be difficult for you. You can bake mini heart-shaped cakes according to your favorite recipe and make a fruit filling.

A heart-shaped cupcake with a hole in the center that can be filled with berries or fruit will look very impressive.

You can place a small heart-shaped muffin tin, bottom up, in a large mold without a hole and carefully fill it with dough. The result will be a beautiful pie that can be sprinkled with powdered sugar and decorated with berries (berries can also be sprinkled in the center).

And of course you can make buns or cookies in the shape of a heart.

And if you are an amateur, you can make a spectacular top on it. To do this: carefully drop the syrup in a spiral (for example, with a syringe), there should be one drop in the center. Then we take toothpicks and, in a spiral, without removing the toothpick, pass it through the middle of all the circles.

Using the same heart-shaped molds (preferably silicone ones), you can make a simple dessert for Valentine's Day, again from chocolate. Coat the molds with melted chocolate in several layers and place in the refrigerator. Ready-made chocolate hearts can be filled with mousse or ice cream, decorated with whipped cream and fruit. A beautiful dessert for Valentine's Day is ready.

Or you can connect two hearts together, especially if you have small molds - you will get heart-shaped candies. Agree, it’s a good dessert for Valentine’s Day, especially since you can make whatever filling you want.

Or you can just cover regular candies with stickers with hearts.

Or you can make a beautiful composition of sweets, as shown in the photo below. Kind of a delicious cocktail for Valentine's Day.

You can make fortune cookies (or declarations of love) from fabric and put candy in them.

You can make a beautiful dessert from pancakes. Add red food coloring to the pancake batter and bake pancakes. Place the filling on one side and roll the pancake into a roll. Then we place two or more paper hearts on the pancake, sprinkle the pancake with powdered sugar and pour strips of chocolate on it, then simply remove the hearts and admire the resulting beautiful dessert for Valentine's Day. You can decorate cakes, cupcakes and even ice cream in the same way.

Valentine's Day is another reason to please your “other half” with a romantic dinner. The suggested recipes are perfect for this holiday!
Double layer jelly with strawberries
Ingredients:
450 g strawberries
250 ml cream 10% fat
120 g sugar
half a vanilla pod
1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
3.5 tsp. gelatin
Pour in 1.5 tsp. gelatin 3 tbsp. l. cream and leave for 10 minutes. Cut the vanilla bean in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds. Place the remaining cream, 50g sugar and vanilla seeds in a saucepan and heat, but do not boil.
Pour hot cream into gelatin and stir. Gelatin should completely dissolve. Strain the mixture through a sieve. Place the silicone mold on a tray. Fill the mold halfway with the cream mixture. Cool and refrigerate for 2 hours. The jelly should almost completely harden.
Set aside 200 g of strawberries. Cut the rest into small cubes.
Place the strawberries in a saucepan, add 250ml water, lemon juice and the remaining sugar. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and leave for 10 minutes. under the lid.
At this time, soak the remaining gelatin in 3 tbsp. l. water and leave for 10 minutes. for swelling. Add gelatin to the saucepan with strawberries and stir until completely dissolved. Strain through a sieve and cool completely. Pour the cold mixture into the jelly mold and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Remove the jelly mold from the refrigerator 10 minutes before. before serving. Carefully invert onto a plate. Slice the remaining strawberries and decorate the jelly with them.
Mini Cheesecakes for Valentine's Day


Ingredients:
For the base:
shortbread cookies 150 g
butter 60 g
For cream:
cream cheese 500 g
cream 33% 200 ml
white chocolate 80 g
vanilla to taste
sugar to taste
gelatin 8 g
For the jelly:
berries 250 g
gelatin 6 g
sugar 50 g
Break the cookies into pieces and grind in a blender until crumbly. Melt the butter and mix thoroughly with the shortbread crumbs. We spread the mixture into the molds, level it and compact it with our fingers.
Place in the freezer for 30 minutes. To prepare the cream cheese cream, soak the gelatin in cold boiled water for 20-30 minutes. Pour 100 ml of cream into a saucepan, heat it, add white chocolate and stir until smooth.
Add gelatin, heat until completely dissolved (but do not boil) and remove from heat. Add cream cheese, vanilla and whisk.
Whip the remaining 100 ml of cream to soft peaks and carefully mix into the cream cheese cream. If desired, you can add a little more sugar. Place the resulting buttercream into molds, leaving room for the berry jelly.
Place the molds in the refrigerator for several hours to harden or in the freezer for 20 minutes. When the cream begins to harden, prepare the berry jelly. To do this, soak the gelatin in cold boiled water for 20-30 minutes. Cover the berries with sugar and heat over low heat for 7-10 minutes. Then grind them in a blender, mix with gelatin and stir until it dissolves. Cool the berry puree to room temperature and pour the buttercream into the molds.
Decorate with whole berries, left for decoration and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. To remove the mini cheesecakes from the silicone molds, you need to run a sharp knife along the edge and lift it up a little.
Tiramisu with liqueur


Ingredients:
Powdered sugar – 100g.
Egg – 4 pcs.
Cookies (biscuit) – 0.5 kg.
Mascarpone – 250g.
Chocolate liqueur – 250g.
Black and white chocolate for decoration
Strawberries or pineapple for decoration
Separate the whites and yolks. Beat the yolk and sugar at low speed. We start adding cheese little by little. The cream should come out airy. Separately, beat the whites with salt and mix with the cheese cream. Soak the finished biscuit cookies (take half of the total weight) with chocolate liqueur. Pour the liqueur into a plate and dip the cookies into it. Place the soaked cookies on the bottom of the bowl. Place cream on top. Repeat layers 2-3 times. After this, put the tiramisu in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Before serving, decorate with fresh fruit and grated chocolate.
Chocolate candies with cherries


Ingredients:
Fresh cherries – 200g.
Sponge cake – 1 pc.
Yolk – 1 pc.
Dark chocolate – 200g.
Butter – 100g.
Powdered sugar – 100g.
Cognac – 50g.
Grind the finished cake into crumbs. This can be done using parchment and a rolling pin, or you can simply break it with your hands. Pour cognac into the crumbs so that it saturates the entire dough. Let it soak for an hour. Beat butter with egg yolk and sugar. Mix with cognac crumbs. Break the chocolate and melt it. Pour some into the dough. We wash the cherries and remove the pits. Carefully coat each cherry with biscuit crumbs. Using a spoon, dip the candies into the chocolate. You can sprinkle them with ground almonds. The candies should set in the cold for 30 minutes.
Meringue cake “Heart”


Ingredients:
Eggs - 4 pcs.
Sugar - 1 glass
Powdered sugar - ¼ cup
Cream of tartar - ¼ tsp.
Whipped cream - 1.5 cups
Cream cheese, softened - 115 g
White chocolate - 85 g
Canned raspberries - 600 g
Fresh strawberries - 2 cups
Fresh mint sprigs optional
Preheat the oven to 140 degrees. Take a baking dish with a diameter of about 25 cm and place parchment paper in it. To make the meringue, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy using an electric mixer. Add 1 tablespoon granulated sugar and beat for about 6 minutes until glossy. Place the meringue in a baking dish and form a heart shell, the inside should be empty. Bake the meringue for 45-50 minutes or until the heart is dry to the touch. Turn off the heat and let it sit in the covered oven for 1 hour. Cool completely for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, beat the cream with an electric mixer on high speed. In another bowl, beat cream cheese and powdered sugar on medium speed. Melt white chocolate and combine with cream cheese, beat until smooth. Stir in whipped cream. Carefully remove the heart from the parchment paper and place it on a plate. Spread the mixture evenly into the meringue shell. Cover the heart with a cap and place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Mix canned raspberries and strawberries. Decorate the finished heart with 1.5 cups of the mixture. Stick in a sprig of mint. Place the remaining berry mixture in a bowl and serve separately.
Chocolate dessert with heart-shaped custard


Ingredients:
Butter - 100 g + 15 g
Dark chocolate - 100 g
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.
Eggs - 2 pcs.
Egg yolks - 2 pcs. + 2 pcs.
Wheat flour - 100 g
Milk - 250 ml
Sugar - 40 g
Vanilla extract - 1 tbsp. l.
You should start by preparing the custard. Beat 2 egg yolks and sugar thoroughly using a mixer. Combine milk and vanilla extract in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and pour in mixture of yolks and sugar, beat until smooth. Place the pan back on the heat and simmer over low heat for 3-4 minutes until thickened, stirring all the time to prevent the cream from sticking to the bottom. Remove from heat and pour into a jug, cover and cool.
We are preparing a chocolate dessert. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Grease a heart-shaped silicone mold with melted butter (15 g). Sprinkle the inside of the pan with a little cocoa powder. Place the chocolate and chopped butter in a saucepan and melt everything together over a double boiler. Once the mixture has melted, remove it from the heat and let cool for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, beat the eggs and 2 egg yolks thoroughly in a separate bowl. Sift the flour there and whisk until smooth. Pour in melted chocolate and butter, mix well.
Fill the prepared dessert mold with dough.
Bake dessert for 12-15 minutes or until light brown on top. But it should be a little runny in the middle, the toothpick should come out a little unclean from the center.
Remove the chocolate dessert from the oven and let cool for 2-3 minutes, then transfer to a serving plate.
Whisk the custard, then pour over the chocolate dessert. Serve immediately afterwards. Bon appetit!
French toast with raspberries, chocolate and cream cheese


Ingredients:
Bread 6 slices
Raspberry jam 3 tsp.
Cream cheese 3 tbsp. l.
Chocolate chips 1-2 tsp.
Eggs 2 pcs.
Milk 1/3 cup
Almond extract 1/4 tsp.
Vanilla extract 1/2 tsp.
Ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp.
Salt 1 pinch
Butter 1/2 tbsp. l.
Powdered sugar to taste (for decoration)
Syrup to taste (for decoration)
Fresh berries to taste (for decoration)
1. Take a heart-shaped cutter 8-10 mm in diameter and cut out hearts from slices of bread.
2. Spread 1 tablespoon of cream cheese onto 3 of the 6 slices. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
3. Spread 1 teaspoon of raspberry jam on the other 3 slices of bread. Stick the raspberry jam and cream cheese slices together and press down slightly.
4. Beat the eggs. Mix them with milk, almond and vanilla extract, salt and cinnamon. Dip the French toast into the egg mixture until the bread slices are thoroughly coated.
5. Take a frying pan and melt butter in it. Fry the French toast until golden brown and flip to the other side.
6. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Place the grill on top. Bake in the oven until desired doneness.
7. Place the French toast on a plate and sprinkle some powdered sugar on top to decorate. You can also use syrup and fresh berries for decoration. Bon appetit!
Bird's milk cakes


Ingredients:
Biscuit:
2 eggs
0.5 tbsp. flour
0.5 tbsp. Sahara
0.5 tsp soda
Souffle:
3 squirrels
2/3 tbsp. Sahara
1 tbsp. gelatin (with a slide)
a couple of drops of lemon
50 g chocolate
2 tbsp. jam (any kind, I used blueberry)
Glaze:
50 g chocolate
2 tbsp cream (10%)
0.5 tsp vegetable oil
1. Separate the whites from the yolks and beat in a dry bowl with a pinch of salt into a strong foam. Then add sugar in small portions and continue whisking until it dissolves. Lightly beat the yolks with a mixer, add to the whites and mix gently with a spatula. Then gradually sift the flour and soda and continue mixing with a spatula.
2. Place the dough in buttered molds and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool the finished biscuits.
3. Pour gelatin into 50 ml of cold boiled water and leave to swell. To prepare the soufflé, beat the whites with drops of lemon juice into a strong foam, then add sugar little by little. Heat the gelatin over low heat and stir until completely dissolved (without boiling). Cool the gelatin to room temperature and add to the beaten egg whites, continuing to beat. Divide the mixture into three equal parts, and add jam to one, and chocolate melted in a water bath to the other.
4. We don’t touch the third one. Now we fill our prepared molds with the soufflé. Place the molds in the refrigerator until completely set or in the freezer for 20 minutes. At this time you can prepare the glaze. To do this, mix chocolate, vegetable oil and cream in a water bath. Bring the mixture until smooth and cool to room temperature.
5. When the soufflé has hardened, remove the cakes and pour glaze over each cake. I also decorated the cakes with “chocolate lace”. They are very simple to make; to do this, you need to put the chocolate in a thin small bag, and put the bag in a glass of boiling water for 2 minutes. Then we cut a corner of the bag and make patterns on parchment paper (they can be drawn in advance with a pencil). When the patterns are ready, put them in the cold to harden. Remove the frozen “chocolate lace” from the parchment paper and decorate the cakes.
Chocolate cookies


Ingredients:
1 cup flour ¼ cup cocoa powder ¼ cup brown sugar ½ tsp. baking powder pinch of salt 100 grams of dark chocolate 50 grams of butter 1 egg
Mix flour with cocoa, baking powder and soda. Dissolve chocolate with butter and sugar in a water bath. Stir until the mixture becomes homogeneous. Cool and add the egg, mix with a mixer. Gradually add cocoa and flour mixture. Form the dough into a ball and divide it into 2 parts. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm and place in the freezer for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cut out hearts from the dough using a special shape. Bake for about 10 minutes.
Chocolate panna cotta from Flavor


Ingredients:
½ cup heavy cream ¼ cup milk 60 g dark chocolate, chopped 3 teaspoons powdered sugar ¾ teaspoon gelatin 1 tablespoon freshly boiled water chocolate hearts, strawberries - for serving:
Lightly grease 2 silicone heart molds, each about ½ cup capacity. Place the molds on a baking sheet. In a small saucepan, combine the cream, milk, chocolate and caster sugar. Stir over low heat until smooth. In a small, deep bowl, quickly whisk the gelatin and boiling water with a fork until it dissolves. Cool slightly. Mix with creamy mixture. Place the finished mixture into molds. Refrigerate, covered, 3 hours or overnight. Before serving, carefully transfer the finished panna cotta from the molds to serving dishes, decorate with chocolate hearts and strawberries. To prepare the chocolate hearts, line a baking tray with baking paper. Pipe the outlines of the hearts onto the baking sheet using melted chocolate (do not heat above 55°C) and a piping bag with a corner cut off for pipetting. Refrigerate the hearts until they are completely set.
Tartlets “Raspberry Mood”


Ingredients:
Raspberry jam - 300 g
Water - 2 tbsp. l.
Yolk - 1 pc.
Butter - 75 g
Orange - 1/2
Sugar - 75 g
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp.
Flour - 150 g
Sift the flour and mix with baking powder.
Add powdered sugar, orange zest, orange juice, butter, yolk and water. Knead the dough.
Roll out the finished dough into a layer and cut out circles.
Transfer the dough circles into tartlet tins and form sides.
Bake the tartlets at 180°C for 15 minutes.
Grease the finished tartlets with raspberry jam and place the frozen cream in the shape of hearts on them.
Sprinkle the sides of the tartlets with coconut.
Raspberry cream (4 g gelatin, 200 g raspberry puree, 60 g sugar, 3 yolks, 1 egg, 75 g butter, 100 g coconut)
Bring raspberry puree with sugar to a boil on the stove and remove from heat. Soak the gelatin in a small amount of water until it swells. Add egg, yolks and gelatin to raspberry puree. Mix everything. Strain the resulting mixture and beat in a mixer with butter until the cream has cooled. Pour the cream into a silicone mold into heart shapes and let it harden.
"Rose garden"

Ingredients:(6 servings)
250 g biscuits
2 yolks
100 g soft butter
0.5 tsp. vanillin and
2 tbsp. l. strong black coffee
Grind 250 g of biscuit cookies in a food processor, combine with 2 yolks, 100 g of soft butter, 0.5 tsp. vanilla and 2 tbsp. l. strong black coffee. Mix the ingredients thoroughly, place in a mold, refrigerate for 3 hours, and before serving, garnish with 50 g of walnut kernels and small rose buds.
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