Best Valentine's Day Recipes

Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to celebrate all the people you love and enjoy something sweet. You’ll find a collection of easy Valentine’s Day desserts, sweet breakfast, romantic dinner ideas, and kid-friendly recipes that are simple to make. From rich chocolate cake, to homemade creme brûlée to romantic creamy sausage pasta, you’ll find it all here.

This is the Best Chocolate Raspberry Cake Recipe. Rich layered chocolate cake with whipped cream cheese raspberry filling, topped with creamy chocolate buttercream frosting and fresh raspberries.

A chocolate cake is the way to my heart and it’s the sure way to make someone feel extra loved, I mean who doesn’t love chocolate? I have a rich chocolate cake, chocolate raspberry cake, flourless chocolate cake, and chocolate molten lava cake.

Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays because of the traditions we had growing up that I use with my kids today. Our morning always started with a special homemade breakfast filled with festive breakfast items! We also always frosted homemade sugar cookies shaped into hearts.

Valentine’s Day Desserts:

Perfect desserts for sharing with a loved one, gifting, or making with your kids.

Jacque’s Buttery Sugar Cookies

Jacque's Buttery Sugar Cookies. Homemade buttery sugar cookies with sweet buttercream frosting. The perfect frosted sugar cookie recipe! View Recipe This chocolate mousse recipe is a rich and decadent chocolate dessert but is super simple to make. This is a quick and easy chocolate mousse recipe without eggs and relying on whipped heavy cream for a light and airy texture. This is the best chocolate mousse recipe!

Easy Chocolate Mousse

This is an easy chocolate mousse recipe made with only 4 ingredients. No eggs. No double boiler. The best chocolate mousse recipe! View Recipe

Homemade Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate Truffles. Rich, creamy, decadent homemade chocolate truffles made with high-quality chocolate, heavy cream, and a touch of butter rolled into your favorite toppings. View Recipe

Best Chocolate Cupcakes

This is the Ultimate Chocolate Cupcake Recipe, with a rich, moist chocolate cake with a tender crumb and a velvet chocolate frosting. These are the best chocolate cupcakes you'll ever taste, with a deep cocoa flavor that melts in your mouth. Not only are they delicious, but this easy chocolate cupcake recipe takes just minutes to prepare. If you are looking for moist chocolate cupcakes that are 5-star rated, this is the recipe for you! View Recipe

Better than a Boyfriend Brownies

This rich and fudgy brownie will satisfy all your chocolate cravings. View Recipe Chantilly Cake Recipe. Homemade moist yellow cake layered with fluffy sweet cream cheese whipped cream frosting and fresh berries. This Chantilly Cake is famous at Whole Foods and here's my copycat version so you can make it at home. This is the best Chantilly Cake recipe!

Chantilly Cake Recipe. Homemade moist yellow cake layered with fluffy sweet cream cheese whipped cream frosting and fresh berries. This Chantilly Cake is famous at Whole Foods and here's my copycat version so you can make it at home. This is the best Chantilly Cake recipe!

Berry Chantilly Cream Cake

This Berry Chantilly Cake is the perfect homemade yellow cake, layered with sweetened chantilly cream frosting, jam, and fresh berries. A dupe of the famous Whole Foods Berry Chantilly cake. A lovely Spring and Summer dessert! View Recipe How to make the perfect Valentine's Day cookies. These soft and chewy Valentine's M&M Cookies have pops of pink, red, and white M&M's to make them not only delicious but festive and fun as well. You will love these Valentine's cookies!

Valentine’s M&M Cookies

Soft and chewy cookies filled with Valentine's M&M's perfect for celebrating Valentine's Day. View Recipe

Chocolate Raspberry Cake

This is the Best Chocolate Raspberry Cake Recipe. Rich layered chocolate cake with whipped cream cheese raspberry filling, topped with creamy chocolate buttercream frosting and fresh raspberries. View Recipe

Sugar Cookie Bars

Sugar Cookie Bars. Soft and chewy sugar cookie bars with a sweet cream cheese frosting. The perfect sugar cookie bar recipe! View Recipe How to make the best red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Homemade Red Velvet Cake is soft, tender, and fluffy with the creamiest and most decadent cream cheese frosting. It is no wonder that it is one of the most popular cake recipes and this is the perfect recipe.

Red Velvet Cake

The perfect red velvet cake recipe with sweet cream cheese frosting View Recipe

Creamy Cheesecake Bars

Creamy luscious cheesecake bars with a buttery graham cracker crust and topped with fresh berries is a crowd-pleasing popular dessert! They feature a creamy, tangy cheesecake filling atop a buttery graham cracker crust, baked to perfection in a bar form. Whether you're looking for a treat for a party, a family dessert, or simply craving cheesecake, these cheesecake bars are a hit. View Recipe Valentine's Day Heart Skillet Cookie. Soft, chewy skillet cookie recipe filled with white chocolate chips, pink sprinkles, and any of your favorite festive additions such as Valentine's Day M&M's and ruby chocolate. Top it with vanilla ice cream and have the perfect Valentine's Day dessert.

Valentine’s Day Heart Skillet Cookie

A heart shaped skillet cookie made with soft and chewy cookie filled with white chocolate chips and pink sprinkles (can add M&M's)/ View Recipe This easy No-Bake Cheesecake Recipe is made with a luscious filling made with sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese, and lemon juice, all piled onto a homemade graham cracker crust. This No Bake Cheesecake with sweetened condensed milk is perfect for when you want an effortless dessert that is easy to whip up and always a crowd pleaser.

This easy No-Bake Cheesecake Recipe is made with a luscious filling made with sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese, and lemon juice, all piled onto a homemade graham cracker crust. This No Bake Cheesecake with sweetened condensed milk is perfect for when you want an effortless dessert that is easy to whip up and always a crowd pleaser.

No Bake Cheesecake (with sweetened condensed milk)

This easy No-Bake Cheesecake is made with a luscious filling made with cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, in a homemade graham cracker crust. View Recipe Chocolate Dessert Board A decadent chocolate board with an assortment of chocolate truffles, milk chocolate, dark chocolate hearts, chocolate covered pretzels, Nutella, berries, and more! www.modernhoney.com #chocolate #valentinesday #chocolateboard #dessert #desserts #chocolatedessert

Chocolate Dessert Board

Chocolate Dessert Board A decadent chocolate board with an assortment of chocolate truffles, milk chocolate, dark chocolate hearts, chocolate covered pretzels, Nutella, berries, and more! View Recipe

Flourless Chocolate Molten Lava Cake

A popular decadent chocolate dessert made with only 5 ingredients — chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, and sea salt. Topped with homemade whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. View Recipe

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Rich decadent flourless chocolate cake recipe with chocolate ganache. This chocolate cake is a chocolate lover's dream! This naturally gluten-free chocolate cake is flour free and is so decadent! View Recipe Homemade Creme Brulee Recipe. A creamy, silky vanilla custard topped with crisp sugar crust is one of the most popular desserts at restaurants for good reason. With its silky custard base and crackly caramelized sugar topping, it’s a showstopper that’s surprisingly easy to make at home.

Creme Brulee

Tips and tricks for making silky smooth, creamy creme brulee View Recipe Homemade Valentine's Day White Chocolate and M & M Popcorn. www.modernhoney.com

Homemade Valentine's Day White Chocolate and M & M Popcorn. www.modernhoney.com

Valentine’s White Chocolate M & M Popcorn

Sweet Valentine’s Popcorn drizzled with melted White Chocolate and studded with M & M’s. View Recipe

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffle Balls Cake Pops

Strawberry Cheesecake Truffle Balls Cake Pops are made with a homemade yellow butter cake and fresh strawberry cream cheese frosting, all rolled into white melting wafers. View Recipe Red velvet brownies are a decadent twist on the classic red velvet cake, combining the color, subtle cocoa flavor, and creamy texture into the perfect brownies. These homemade Red Velvet Brownies with a sweet cream cheese frosting are fudgy and rich with a tangy and sweet cream cheese frosting.

Red Velvet Brownies

Rich, decadent red velvet brownies with cream cheese frosting. View Recipe

Oreo Balls

Rich and creamy Oreo cake pops with a smooth chocolate coating. An easy homemade Oreo chocolate truffle with only 4 ingredients! The BEST Oreo balls recipe. View Recipe

Chocolate Pot de Creme

Chocolate Pot de Creme. Rich velvety smooth chocolate custard topped with fresh whipped cream. A pot of cream made with melted chocolate, heavy cream, sugar, and egg yolks. A decadent chocolate dessert! View Recipe

Chocolate Nutella Cheesecake Mousse

Chocolate Nutella Cheesecake Mousse. No-Bake 5-Minute Chocolate Nutella Mousse made with only four ingredients — Nutella, cream cheese, heavy cream, and powdered sugar. View Recipe

Valentine’s Day Dinner Recipes:

Romantic, comforting meals that feel special without being complicated.

Penne alla Vodka is a classic Italian-American dish featuring a rich, creamy tomato sauce with a touch of vodka. While the alcohol cooks off, the vodka adds a subtle depth and brightness that sets this recipe apart from a standard marinara or tomato cream sauce. You will love this Love at First Bite Pasta!

Love at First Bite Pasta

This Penne alla Vodka is the best tomato cream sauce pasta and will be love at first bite. View Recipe Marry Me Chicken Recipe. The Best Marry Me Chicken Recipe with all 5-Star Ratings. Easy skillet chicken recipe. Sauteed chicken in a creamy sundried tomato basil cream sauce. This "Marry Me" Chicken is famous for good reason!

Marry Me Chicken

Marry Me Chicken. Famous skillet chicken in a sundried tomato parmesan cream sauce with fresh basil. It will definitely inspire marriage proposals! View Recipe

Marry Me Chicken Pasta

This Marry Me Chicken Pasta recipe features chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, heavy cream, parmesan cheese, and pasta in a rich, flavorful sauce. It’s a simple one-pan creamy chicken pasta that’s an easy dinner recipe! View Recipe

Garlic Butter Steak Bites

Quick, easy, tender, and flavorful Steak Bites with Garlic Butter. These Garlic Butter Steak Bites are made in less than 10 minutes and are a perfect protein source for any meal. View Recipe This easy Marry Me Gnocchi is made with pilowy gnocchi in a creamy sundried tomato cream sauce topped with fresh parmesan cheese and basil. Whip up this creamy Tuscan gnocchi with sun-dried tomatoes in one pan! Quick, easy, and bursting with flavor -- perfect for cozy dinners.

Marry Me Gnocchi

This Creamy Tuscan Gnocchi is made with a sundried tomato cream sauce tossed in with pillowy gnocchi and topped with fresh parmesan cheese and basil. You will love this Marry Me Gnocchi! View Recipe

Valentine’s Day Breakfast Ideas:

Simple breakfast ideas to make kids feel loved and celebrated.

BEST BUTTERMILK PANCAKES. The best homemade buttermilk pancake recipe! This is the only pancake recipe you will ever need. Tender texture, light and fluffy, and these pancakes will melt in your mouth!

Goldie’s Best Buttermilk Pancakes

Fluffy, soft, and tender buttermilk pancakes. A family favorite! View Recipe

Overnight Creme Brûlée French Toast

Overnight Creme Brûlée French Toast. An easy overnight french toast with thick bread in a buttery sugar glaze and soaked with a sweet custard. View Recipe

Mini Dutch Baby Pancakes (in a muffin tin)

These mini, bite-size Dutch Baby pancakes are made the same way as traditional German pancakes but these are baked in muffin tins. These easy, golden and buttery mini puffed pancakes are perfect to serve to family and friends. View Recipe

Chocolate Chip Ricotta Pancakes

Chocolate Chip Ricotta Pancakes Creamy homemade one-bowl ricotta pancakes with chocolate chips. How to make easy 5-minute chocolate chip ricotta pancakes from scratch! View Recipe Strawberries and Cream French Toast. Sweet cream cheese, jam and fresh strawberries stuffed between two pieces of soft Texas toast. Dipped into a rich custard batter and cooked until golden brown in skillet. Gourmet french toast made in less than 15 minutes. Perfect topped with fresh berries and homemade whipped cream. www.modernhoney.com

Strawberries and Cream French Toast. Sweet cream cheese, jam and fresh strawberries stuffed between two pieces of soft Texas toast. Dipped into a rich custard batter and cooked until golden brown in skillet. Gourmet french toast made in less than 15 minutes. Perfect topped with fresh berries and homemade whipped cream. www.modernhoney.com

Strawberries and Cream Stuffed French Toast

A breakfast favorite! Sweetened fresh strawberry cream cheese stuffed between thick slices of bread and dipped into a rich custard batter and cooked in a buttery skillet until golden brown. Topped with fresh berries and homemade whipped cream. A showstopping breakfast dish! View Recipe Strawberry Banana Smoothie Recipe. This easy, creamy, refreshing 4-ingredient Strawberry Banana Smoothie is made with strawberries, banana, milk, and a touch of honey and is such a healthy breakfast to start your day.

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

This easy, creamy, refreshing 4-ingredient Strawberry Banana Smoothie is made with strawberries, banana, milk, and a touch of honey and is such a healthy breakfast to start your day. View Recipe

Raspberry Sweet Rolls

Homemade Raspberry Sweet Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting View Recipe Perfect Crepe Recipe with Nutella and Strawberries. Buttery French crepes that melt-in-your-mouth. A list of crepe topping ideas and where to buy the best crepe pans. www.modernhoney.com

Perfect Crepe Recipe with Nutella and Strawberries. Buttery French crepes that melt-in-your-mouth. A list of crepe topping ideas and where to buy the best crepe pans. www.modernhoney.com

Perfect Crepes Recipe with Strawberries and Nutella

Buttery French Crepes topped with your favorite toppings! View Recipe

Are you looking for way to make your kids feel loved on Valentine’s Day? I’m sharing 5 Ways to Make Kids Feel Special on Valentine’s Day that includes all of my favorite traditions that my kids look forward to every year.