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14 Perfectly Sweet Valentine’s Dessert Recipes

February 6, 2020 by girlinspired 3 Comments

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and baking up a special treat is just my kind of love language! Chocolate, berries, hearts, and sprinkles will all do the trick, for whomever you’re baking!! I’ve rounded up some of the sweetest recipes from Girl. Inspired. and around the web – make something delicious to celebrate the season with these 14 Valentine’s dessert recipes!

Do you have a go-to dessert you typically bake for holidays? We really rotate quite regularly between cake, pie, brownies, ice cream, lemon, chocolate, crepes, cupcakes, ummmmm….. all the sweet things!

Chocolate Desserts:

This Chocolate Kahlua Cake is rich and decadent – so easy to make with just a handful of ingredients to dump and mix – this is one of our favorite boozy chocolate desserts!

If you’ve never made crepes at home, let this be the first recipe you try – Chocolate Raspberry Crepes are really not complicated, but you’ll end up with an chocolate lover’s treat that looks at fantastic as it tastes!
If you want Chocolate Cream Pie done right, this is the recipe for you. You can make this rich, chocolatey treat as a whole pie or in individual servings. This recipe from scratch is the real deal and SO GOOD!

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries are the quintessential Valentine’s dessert – nothing says luxurious like these juicy chocolate drenched berries!What??! Did you know that you can make Ice Cream Cake at home and it’s about a thousand times less expensive than purchasing one PLUS you can customize it with your favorite cake and ice cream flavors – that’s a WIN-WIN-WIN!

Fruit Desserts

You can use this Berry Topped Cake as inspiration for a store bought cake if you didn’t have the time or desire to bake and frost a cake too. Pile strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries on top of a cake and add a quick glaze for a fancy patisserie-worthy cake!

More crepes for your social Valentine’s dessert? Yes please! This Lemon Crepe Cake is a blast to stack and feels like such an indulgance – I love fun sweets!

Maybe it’s not chocolate that you want, but something sweet and fruity? You MUST try this Strawberry Dream Frosting made with marshmallow cream – it’s good on cupcakes, cake, or even straight off the spoon! lol

Clever Desserts

Don’t Poptarts take you straight back to the most yummiest of unhealthiest breakfasts? These Strawberry Nutella Poptarts look amazing – my Nutella gobbling kiddos would love to find these for breakfast on Valentine’s Day!

I don’t care how labor intensive these Conversation Hearts Cheesecakes look – they are SO cute and taste delicious too!

I haven’t personally made a Kit Kat Cake yet, but it is definitely on my to-do list – it is so much fun and my kiddos would just love the clever decorations!

Valentine’s Pretzel Chips are super simple to make and so incredible addictive to eat! The perfect blend of salty and sweet!

Banana Caramel Cream Pie Mini Desserts? Don’t mind if I do. Caramel and bananas are a combo I just can’t resist!

Now – talk about clever! Have you ever seen such a fun drink for Valentine’s Day? Impress someone with these Fizzy Jello Drinks!

Happy Baking!!

Valentine Pretzel Chips

January 12, 2016 by girlinspired Leave a Comment

Cute treats don’t get any easier than these fun Valentine Pretzel Chips. My family love a good sweet and salty combination and I love making a treat that can be ready to eat in minutes!

These are a quick treat to serve alongside other sweet snacks for Valentine’s Day like chocolate covered strawberries or our favorite chocolate cream pie!

I put together a little video to show you how easy it is to make candy pretzels. I keep making different variations of these because my family gobbles them right up! Play the video below and then go grab your supplies to make your own!

Valentine Pretzel Chips
1 bag of candy melts (the peppermint flavor is especially good!) or melting chocolate
1-2 bags of pretzel chips (you might want to buy them in bulk.)
Valentine sprinkles
bowl and microwave for melting, cookie sheet or parchment paper
Ziploc baggy or disposable candy bag

Instructions:

Spread a single layer of pretzel chips on a cooling rack or sheet of parchment paper. Leave very little spacing between each pretzel.
Place candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring between each interval, until candy melts are completely smooth. Do not overheat and do not get any moisture in the bowl or the candy will seize up.
Transfer melted candy to a plastic baggy (or disposable piping bag). Clip a very small corner from the baggy – the size of the hole you snip will determine the thickness of the candy streams as you cover your pretzels.
Squeeze the candy in a stream over the pretzel chips, weaving back and forth to cover the tray of chips.
Immediately shake sprinkles over the top.
Transfer the pretzel chips to the refrigerator to cool quickly. They’ll be ready in about 5 minutes.
When the candy has hardened, break apart any pretzel chips that have stuck together from the continuous candy stream. Serve!

Don’t forget to check out some of our other favorite ideas for Valentine’s Day desserts!

February Inspiration

February 4, 2013 by girlinspired 5 Comments

Last year, I had the idea to group together projects by theme and share tutorials and resources based on those themes. The response was really incredible and it’s time to put this back into practice. Each month, I’m aiming to share a collage of projects and products that center around a common theme and then I’ll share the specifics throughout the month. I hope you’ll be motivated to try something new as I share fresh ideas, fun products, helpful tools and just some great inspiration. So, without further adieu, today I have our February project set: a little Valentine’s, a little red and pink and chocolate, some sewing, some sweets, some fun DIY!