Food Seasonal & Holiday Best Valentine's Day Dessert Recipes By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on August 9, 2023 Trending Videos Photo: Blaine Moats Treat your sweetie to decadent cakes, glazed Valentine cookies, easy truffles, mini chocolate souffles and more. 01 of 20 Gâteau au Chocolate Blaine Moats This exceedingly moist and rich (but so simple!) cake is all about chocolate and butter; if you can swing it, choose top-quality brands. Decadent Chocolate Dessert Recipes View Recipe 02 of 20 Chocolate Cream Cups Brie Goldman If you need a last-minute Valentine's Day recipe, this one is perfect. It's a relatively quick make-ahead dessert—and is ultra-rich. Each spoonful is a moment to savor with your Valentine's sweetie. View Recipe 03 of 20 Mini Raspberry White Chocolate Whoopie Pies Kritsada Panichgul This special-occasion dessert will disappear quickly. Soft cookies sandwich a white chocolate mascarpone filling and seedless raspberry preserves. View Recipe 04 of 20 Valentine's Day Marshmallow Treats Dress up rice cereal hearts with frosting, pretzels, peanut butter, chocolate and other toppings for Valentine's Day sweets. View Recipe 05 of 20 Red-Hot Velvet Brownies These cinnamon-spiked red velvet bars taste just like red-hot candies—with a layer of luscious cream cheese frosting on top! Delicious Red Velvet Dessert Recipes View Recipe 06 of 20 Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes Top these gooey-center, intense chocolate desserts with powdered sugar. View Recipe 07 of 20 Cookie Canvas Whip up flavored icing for cookies, sweet rolls, cakes or coffee cake in minutes. Just mix 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar with 2 to 3 tablespoons liquid, then drizzle away. For a Valentine's Day treat, try maraschino cherry juice for pretty pink color. Maraschino cherry juice, coffee and creme de menthe add color as well as flavor. Most other liqueurs and citrus juices yield white or cream-color icing. For unflavored drizzle, use milk. 08 of 20 Mini Chocolate Soufflés These warm, bittersweet puffs have coffee in them, but you'd never know it. Performing culinary sleight of hand, the hidden ingredient just helps chocolate taste more chocolatey, like a capful of vanilla would, but with a darker intent. View Recipe 09 of 20 Red Velvet Pots For a cake that comes together in minutes, just mix and microwave. Top with a powdered sugar heart. View Recipe 10 of 20 White Chocolate-Cherry Shortbread Dip these cookies in melted white chocolate, then roll in nonpareils and edible glitter for Valentine color. The Midwest's Best Cookie Recipes View Recipe 11 of 20 Valentine's Day Chocolate Trail Mix Sweet, salty, chewy, crunchy—this has everything you want in a snack mix. Plus chocolate, of course! View Recipe 12 of 20 Salted Almond Truffle Tart One of our testers described this tart's filling as "chocolate butter." We couldn't agree more. It's fantastically rich, with roast-toasty salted almonds in the crust and flaky sea salt on top to balance the sweetness. View Recipe 13 of 20 Vanilla Pudding with Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle Chocolate desserts may be traditional on Valentine's Day, but for vanilla fans, we like this twist on old-fashioned cookies and milk—a creamy vanilla pudding topped with crispy-buttery cookie bits. View Recipe 14 of 20 Three-Tiered Chocolate Cake Few foods say "celebration" like cake, especially chocolate. The recipe for this decadently rich dessert includes variations such as Hot Chocolate Cake, Spice is Nice Chocolate Cake and Mocha Chocolate Cake. View Recipe 15 of 20 Fudge Brownie Hearts These Valentine treats combine bittersweet and semisweet chocolate with plenty of butter, eggs, granulated sugar and brown sugar for a moist, rich dessert. After the brownies have cooked and cooled, you can cut them into bars or use 3-inch heart-shape cutters. Drizzle with a vanilla glaze. Rich, Moist Brownie Recipes View Recipe 16 of 20 Red Velvet Cheesecake We took the red velvet cake we love and gave it a creamy twist. Don't let the red color fool you: The flavor is all chocolate. Creamy Cheesecakes You'll Love View Recipe 17 of 20 Candy-Box Caramels Make packaged caramel squares a perfect, easy Valentine treat by dipping them in sprinkles, crushed nuts and bits of candy. Drizzle with dark or white chocolate to add even more color. View Recipe 18 of 20 Cocoa and Brown Butter Shortbread Bites Browned butter infuses irresistible nuttiness into these four-ingredient cookies without sullying their essential simplicity or sandy texture. Dip them in satiny chocolate for effortless glamour. View Recipe 19 of 20 Creamy Peanut Butter Truffles Minnesota's Saint Paul Hotel features truffles similar to these. View Recipe 20 of 20 The Original Chocolate Fondue Fondue stars at the Melting Pot restaurant in Indianapolis. We offer The Original Chocolate Fondue recipe as well as versions based on s'mores and caramels. Dippers include fruit, angel food cake, pound cake cubes and marshmallows. View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit