Valentine’s Day is fast approaching! For this holiday focused on love nothing is better to make for your sweetheart than a dessert that shows your feelings. This collection of 20+ desserts puts together the best red and pink Valentine’s desserts.
Check out my collection of desserts below, or jump to the bottom of the post for my favorite Valentine’s Day dessert, strawberries stuffed with chocolate cheesecake!
The desserts in this collection range from elaborate homemade layer cakes with fancy decorations to simple three ingredient no-bake favorites. There is truly something for everyone, from experienced cooks to novice bakers.
Some of these desserts are spectacular enough for dinner parties and some are simple enough to send to school with your kids. No matter what you decide to make your loved ones are sure to appreciate you taking the time an effort to make something homemade to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Red and Pink Desserts
Chocolate Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries
These chocolate stuffed strawberries are a bite sized dessert that doesn’t require baking. In this simple recipe red, ripe berries are hollowed out and filled with creamy chocolate filling. This strawberry dessert is simple but combines two of the most popular dessert flavors, strawberry and chocolate, into one mini dessert.
Chocolate Cherry Blossoms - Christmas Cookies
What could be more romantic than a pink Kiss cookie! These easy cherry blossom cookies are flavored with cherry juice and topped off with a chocolate kiss.
Valentine Puff Pastry Cookies
These easy puff pastry cookies have only three ingredients! Cut puff pastry into heart shapes and top if off with Nutella and raspberries.
Instant Pot Red Velvet Cheesecake
This bright red cheesecake is festive and tasty. Baked in a pressure cooker it features a chocolate cookie crust topped with red velvet filling. Red velvet is one of the most popular cheesecake flavors and cooking the cheesecake in the Instant Pot is a great way to get a creamy, crack free cheesecake.
Easy No Bake Icebox Cake Recipe
This simple no bake dessert is ideal for Valentine's Day. There are no complicated instructions but the dessert looks like a fancy layer cake! Fresh strawberries and raspberries finish off the dessert.
Red Velvet Cookies
These red velvet cookies are a pretty deep red color. Made with a cake mix base these cookies are easy to make and delicious to eat.
Strawberry Roll Cake
This strawberry cake roll is a fun twist on strawberry shortcake. Roll up strawberries and whipped cream inside a tasty sponge cake for an easy romantic dessert.
Strawberry Chocolate Brownies
These brownies are topped off with pink frosting, a layer of chocolate and crushed red candy. The result is a tasty treat that is chocolaty and sweet.
Sangria Ice
A delicious red frozen dessert made from sangria, this treat is perfect for a romantic evening. It is cool and refreshing and is simple to make.
Raspberry Cherry Yogurt Parfait
Make a simple raspberry cherry yogurt parfait and layer it with yogurt for a dessert that is delicious and healthy.
Strawberry Fool Recipe
Strawberry fool is a simple old fashioned dessert, made by infusing whipped cream with strawberries. It is like a strawberry shortcake without the cake!
Vintage Cherry Chip Layer Cake
This cherry layer cake is a made from scratch triple layer cake. The cherry flavor comes from maraschino cherries, which are chopped up in the cake batter while the cherry juice gives the cake a pretty pink color. It is gorgeous and bursting with cherry flavor.
Raspberry Chocolate Swiss Roll
This elegant chocolate Swiss roll is filled with raspberry cream cheese filling and topped off with more chocolate and more raspberries. This recipe uses freeze dried raspberries to really give the filling an intense raspberry flavor that goes amazingly well with the chocolate cake.
Strawberry Sheet Cake
This sheet cake is a throwback cake that combines white cake mix with jello for a tasty strawberry flavor. Most cakes which include jello are poke cakes, but in this cake the jello is mixed into the batter to make a pink strawberry cake batter. The cake is topped off with buttercream frosting that has strawberries mixed into it and topped with more strawberries.
Raspberry Mojito No-Bake Mini Pies
I like to make (and eat) bite sized deeserts, because it lets me indulge without the guilt. These mini Mojito pies are a no-bake dessert which combines the lime and rum of Mojitos with raspberries and cream cheese. This dessert is perfect for making ahead of time and serving at parties.
Easy Fresh Strawberry Mousse
This homemade mousse recipe is another no-bake dessert. This mousse recipe is very simple, with only three ingredients. Strawberries are combined with cream and sugar for a tasty dessert that is bursting with berry flavor. The creamy mousse is layered with strawberry puree for and easy yet elegant dessert, perfect for your Valentine.
Spiced Berry Bliss Balls
Valentine’s treats don’t have to be unhealthy! These Berry Bliss Balls are sweetened with dates and fruit, not sugar, and are flavored with nuts and spices. The pink color comes from freeze dried strawberries and dried cranberries for a quick pink bite sized snack that both kids and adults will enjoy.
Heart-Shaped Stained Glass Cookies
No list of Valentine’s Day desserts would be complete without a heart shaped dessert! These heart shaped cookies are made special by cutting out the center and filling the cookie with crushed Jolly Rancher candy. The candy melts as the cookies bake, resulting in a pretty red heart with a stained glass center.
Gluten Free Funfetti Cake
Just because you can't have gluten doesn't mean cake is off limits! This pretty cake is light and airy and perfect for dessert.
Heart Meringue Cookie Recipe
These lovely meringue cookies are delicious and easy to make. Shaped like hearts for the holiday they melt in your mouth!
Strawberry Lemonade Granita
This frozen dessert is a delicious refreshing treat. Strawberries are combined with lemonade for a sweet and tasty dessert.
Easy Vanilla Cut-Out Cookies for Valentine’s Day
Heart shaped cut out cookies are a classic Valentine's Day dessert. Finished with pink and red icing and decorated with sprinkles they are fun to decorate and eat.
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VALENTINES DAY CHOCOLATE DESSERTS
Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries
Make pink or red dessert for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day, like these cheesecake stuffed strawberries.
Ingredients
- 36 strawberries
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 2 Tablespoon half & half
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoon cocoa
- shaved chocolate
Instructions
- Wash and dry the strawberries. Then hull the berries and cut a small sliver from the bottom so they stand upright.
- Mix the cream cheese, half & half, sugar and cocoa in a mixer on high speed.
- Put the mixture into a pastry bag with a large tip or put into a plastic bag and cut the corner off.
- Pipe the filling into the strawberries.
- Sprinkle with shaved chocolate
- Refrigerate until ready to serve. The strawberries are best served the same day they are filled.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
36Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 23Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 11mgCarbohydrates: 3gFiber: 0gSugar: 2gProtein: 0g
Nutrition facts are estimates.
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