Chocolate cake for Valentine's Day. The best romantic desserts for Valentine's Day.

Handsome and a delicious cake is the climax of any holiday. And a celebration for two is no exception. Hurry up to choose the most suitable dessert for your wedding anniversary, Valentine's day or any other important date for your couple on the confectionery website!

Cakes for lovers are not only for February 14th!

A cake for February 14th to order can be small, because it is only for two. Our confectioners will make it in the style of inserts from the popular “Love is...” chewing gum, and will place flowers, bears, Cupid or loving cats made of mastic on the dessert. A heart-shaped gift cake with touching inscriptions or compliments on Valentine's Day looks no less beautiful and symbolic. The site’s masters will make your most original fantasy come true and allow you to pleasantly surprise your loved one.

A cake for the anniversary of a relationship between lovers can be bigger size. This is especially true if you plan to invite guests and arrange a festive event, celebrate with family and friends important date. Often the culmination of the celebration is a two- or even three-tiered confectionery masterpiece in a classic design with figurines of swans, images of hearts or couples.

Whatever symbols you choose to express love, traditional or unusual, the cake will be unsurpassedly delicious and tender. We use only the best certified ingredients. All you have to do is decide on the filling, dough, or trust our experienced confectioners to do this.

The price of the main dessert for the holiday will depend on the size of the product and the complexity of the decor. Hurry up to place your order and decorate your celebration with a delicious cake!

You can cook it in different ways. Today we will look at two of the most popular recipes. Using them, you can make not only a tasty, but also a very beautiful dessert in a minimum amount of time.

The most delicious cake for Valentine's Day: step-by-step recipe

A dessert prepared for Valentine's Day should please both the girl and the man. That is why we decided to tell you how to make it. After all, absolutely everyone loves such a delicacy.

So, to make a cake for Valentine's Day, you need to prepare:

• sifted wheat flour - about 260 g;
• fresh large eggs - 4 pcs.;
• slaked soda - 4 g;
• white sugar - about 240 g;
• cocoa powder - 5 large spoons;
• condensed milk - standard can;
• high quality butter - 190 g;
• dark and white chocolate - one bar at a time (for decoration);
• whole fat milk - about 6 large spoons.

Knead the dough

Valentine's Day cakes are quite easy to make. First you need to knead the base (biscuit). To do this, the yolks of the eggs are ground together with white sugar. Then add whites whipped to stiff peaks and slaked soda. Having received a homogeneous mixture, sifted flour and cocoa powder are gradually added to it. The output is a dark dough with the consistency of low-fat sour cream.

Baking sponge cake (chocolate)

The Valentine's Day cake turns out more delicious if it is prepared using a biscuit base. To bake it, take a deep heat-resistant form and grease it with fat. Then all the previously kneaded dough is placed in it. In this form, it is placed in the oven and cooked for 60 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.

After heat treatment, the fluffy and soft sponge cake is removed from the mold, placed on a flat board and cooled. Subsequently, the product is cut into several equal cakes (3 or 4).

Preparing the cream

A Valentine's Day cake can be prepared using any cream. We decided to use oil. To do this, beat the softened cooking fat vigorously with a mixer, and then add condensed milk to it. After this, both products are thoroughly mixed again. If desired, you can additionally add cocoa powder to the cream.

Formation process

Cakes for Valentine's Day can have absolutely any shape. We decided to make a round dessert. To do this, one of the chocolate cakes is placed on a cake pan and greased with butter cream. Then lay out the second and third biscuits in the same way.

Decorating the cake

To make the dessert we created more suitable for a romantic holiday, it should be decorated accordingly. For this they prepare

The dark tile is broken into slices and placed in a bowl. By adding a little milk to the product, it is slowly melted. After this, chocolate glaze is completely poured over the entire surface of the dessert, including its side parts. In this form, it is placed in the refrigerator and kept until the top layer completely hardens. In the meantime, they do it in the same way. After that, it is placed in a cornet and various hearts or inscriptions (for example, declarations of love) are drawn on the surface of the chocolate cake.

At the end, the fully prepared dessert is placed back in the refrigerator. The cake is kept in it for several hours.

Serve to the table

Once finished with the dark and white glaze, remove from the refrigerator and cut into pieces. It is presented to the table along with a cup of tea.

Recipes for Valentine's Day

Cake is a dessert that is perfect for Valentine's Day. If you don’t want to buy such a delicacy in a store, we suggest making it yourself. For this we need:

• sifted wheat flour - about 260 g;
• large raw eggs - 4 pcs.;
• slaked soda - 4 g;
• white sugar - about 240 g for dough and 250 g for cream;
• thick sour cream - for dough 180 g and for cream 500 g;
• store-bought whipped cream - 1 container;
• large fresh strawberries - about 300 g.

Making the dough

The “Pleasure” cake for Valentine’s Day is prepared just as easily and simply as the dessert presented above. To do this, grind the egg yolks together with sugar, and then add thick sour cream to them and then add sifted flour and slaked soda to the ingredients.

Baking process

The crust for a romantic cake is best baked in a heat-resistant heart-shaped form. It is thoroughly greased with oil, and then the dough is laid out. After this, the base is placed in the oven and baked for 60 minutes at 200 degrees.

The finished biscuit is carefully removed from the mold and cooled. Finally, it is cut into 3 or 4 identical cake layers.

Making cream

We decided to use sour cream for the “Enjoyment” cake. To prepare it, beat the thick milk product well with a mixer, and then add white sugar to it. The output is a rather fluffy and homogeneous mass.

How to form dessert?

To form a homemade delicacy, take a large cake pan and place one of the heart-shaped cakes on it. It is thoroughly coated with sweet sour cream and then covered with a second sponge cake. Having applied cream to it in the same way, it is again covered with cake. Finally, the entire cake is greased with the remaining sweet sour cream.

How to decorate?

You can use fresh strawberries to decorate your Valentine's Day cake. It is thoroughly washed, the stalks are removed, and then cut in half lengthwise. After this, the berries are beautifully laid out on the surface of the dessert. As for its edges, they are decorated using a balloon. In this form, the homemade delicacy is placed in the refrigerator. The dessert is kept in it for several hours.

Serving for a romantic dinner

After all the cake layers are soaked in sweet sour cream, the culinary product is removed from the refrigerator and presented to the table. Then the red heart-shaped dessert is cut into pieces, placed on saucers and served to your loved one along with a cup of black tea.

We continue our delicious series of articles Recipes for Valentine's Day. We have already talked about recipes such as scrambled eggs for Valentine's Day , heart shaped pizza and much more in the previous article “Valentine’s Day Recipes – Quick and Easy.”

There I also posted sweet dessert recipes for Valentine's Day “Strawberries in chocolate”, “Heart ice cream”.

Today we're looking at a few Valentine's Day cookie recipes. I will show you 20 ways to decorate cookies for Valentine's Day.

The dough recipes themselves - you will find at the end of this article. I will offer you recipes for different cookies– lemon, chocolate, gingerbread, nut, coconut – but before kneading the dough, let’s see what kind of Valentine’s cookies they are and choose an idea for yourself.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - SCARLET HEARTS.

Add enough food coloring to the dough so that the dough turns red.

ATTENTION. Easter egg dye It is suitable only if it does not contain salt, or if the package contains the inscription “Can be used in confectionery products”. You don't want to end up with a salty cookie.

We glue the baked cookies together; we’ll talk about gluing the cookies below...

Recipes for Valentine's Day - DOUBLE LAYER COOKIES.

"DOUBLE LAYER STRIPED"

We glue two cookies to each other with the usual jam, marmalade, glaze, caramel syrup, or egg white whipped with sugar. Draw diagonal stripes with white icing and sprinkle with red confectionery sprinkles.

White glaze can be made from tiles melted in a water bath white chocolate. Or you can find a recipe for glaze made from egg whites whipped with sugar in our article “Gingerbread houses - all the secrets of craftsmanship” (only on the website ), there you will find a simple and quick caramel and butterscotch glue recipe, they are very convenient and tasty for gluing cookies together.

COOKIES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY "SMALL IN BIG"

Bake cookies in the shape of hearts of different sizes. Paint each heart separately with colored glaze. And stick a small heart on top of the big one.

Colored glaze, convenient for coloring cookies, is best made from a white chocolate bar.

Take 3 cups and place them in a frying pan filled with water. Place the frying pan with the cups on the fire. This is called a water bath. While the water is heating, break white chocolate bars into cups, approximately equal to each container.

When the chocolate has melted, add food coloring to each mug. different colors. Or one red color, just sprinkle more somewhere (you'll get bright pink), somewhere less (you'll get light pink). We paint the cookies with a brush with still hot chocolate, without turning off the heat under it so that the chocolate does not cool down.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - COOKIES WITH FILLING.

We cut out hearts from the rolled out dough and then make another hole in the shape of a small heart in half of the figures. We bake both whole and “holey” hearts on a baking sheet. Then we glue them together (I indicated the glue recipes above), fill the resulting hole with jam, marmalade, glaze, melted chocolate, sweet cream, mastic.

Or you can immediately put the “holey” cookies on a whole one while still raw and cut the sides with a knife (see 3 photos in the photo series above), you will get such an elegant fringe. Even before baking, place a slice of marmalade or marshmallow into this cavity; it will melt in a hot oven and fill the heart. Or here’s another interesting way...

Recipe for Valentine's Day - INTERESTING DESIGN.

COOKIES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY "CARAMEL HEART"

To create a caramel heart, you will need to cut out holey hearts from the dough (instructions in the previous cookie). Place them on a baking sheet lined with oiled parchment. Pour 1-2 tablespoons of caramel crushed in a coffee grinder into the hole and bake. In a hot oven, the caramel will melt and fill the entire center of the cookie. Caramels can be selected in different colors.

COOKIES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY "TWO-COLOR"

Everything is simple here, you only need 3 molds of different sizes. First, cut out whole large cookies: 10 brown and 10 white. We do it in them a smaller mold holes and exchange heart pieces. That is, we put freshly cut brown cookies into a large white cookie. And in the big brown one we put the piece that we just cut out from the white heart. And we carry out the same manipulation with very tiny molds.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - “HEART WITH CARAMEL SPIRITS”

We crush the caramel in a coffee grinder and sprinkle the cookies with this caramel sugar. To make the caramel stick to the cookies, brush them with jam, marmalade or glaze.

Valentine's Day Recipe - EASY DECORATIONS.

You can cover half of the cookies with chocolate, or coat them with whipped egg white and sprinkle with heart-shaped confectionery sprinkles. This sprinkle is for sale At outlets selling cake decorations or at any market, ask at stalls selling only spices. Be sure to ask the seller, since you won’t immediately notice such a small thing in a kiosk window.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - DECENT BEADS.

Sour chewy fruit-flavored jelly beans, or chocolate M&Ms, or Soviet multi-colored jelly beans. Pour the glaze over the cookies, melted caramel (crush the caramel in a coffee grinder and melt in a water bath) and, while the glaze has not yet set, quickly place our sweets.

Recipe for Valentine's Day - SQUEEZING THE BEAUTY.

It is also convenient to apply a design by squeezing out colored glaze from pastry bag or a pastry syringe. Protein glaze is ideal for these purposes - I described the recipe and all the secrets of proper preparation of protein glaze in detail in the article “Gingerbread houses - all the secrets of craftsmanship” (only on the website ).

Valentine's Day Recipe - GLAZING IN TUBE.

To be honest, I myself have never used such a thing. But many cooks and housewives love to work with her. This thing is called differently confectionery gel. Sold in retail outlets that sell cake decorating products (in markets and shopping centers).

Recipe for Valentine's Day - MASTIC COOKIES.

What is mastic, and how to make it so beautiful sweet applications simple and quick, I will tell you in our next article Valentine's Day Recipes – Heart Cupcakes (online only ).

Recipe for Valentine's Day - BOUQUET FROM COOKIES.

This cookies on a stick can be done in two ways.

Method one– put the stick into the cookie again before baking(in this case, you can only use wooden skewers). Plastic sticks cannot be baked; your cookies will become toxic and smelly. A wooden skewer can be placed between two layers of hearts cut from dough and baked in the oven

Method two– plastic chopsticks are already allowed (cocktail straws and skewers for canapes are suitable). Glue two cookies together with chocolate, toffee, or caramel glue, after placing a stick between the layers. You will find recipes for the above adhesives in the article. “Gingerbread houses - all the secrets of the masterstav” (only on the website ).

Valentine's Day Cookies - SERVING.

But these photographs show options for how you can beautifully serve cookies on the table.

Cookies for Valentine's Day - WE MAKE AS A GIFT.

You can buy a heart-shaped box in the gift department of a large department store or in gift shops. The cost of such an empty large box is 2-3 dollars.

Well? Have you already decided what kind of cookies you will bake for Valentine's Day? Then let's make the dough!

Valentine's Day Recipe - Making Cookie Dough.

I'll offer my favorite cookie recipe (with variations on different flavors), but you can use your own cookie recipe to create our sweet Valentines.

Ingredients for one baking sheet.

100 g butter (crush with a fork or chop with a knife)

100 g sugar

half a bag of baking powder (or soda slaked with vinegar). If you run out of vinegar, you can extinguish the soda with lemon or orange juice, that is, any sour juice or jam, citric acid diluted in a spoon of water, and even kifir.

1 egg or 2 egg yolks, if Using the egg whites, you will want to make icing to decorate the cookies.

2 cups of flour(this is approximately, depends on the size of the eggs and the flour itself)

Salt.

Mix the dough from the above ingredients.

Divide the dough into 4 - 6 parts and add your favorites to each part. doping.

For chocolate cookies– add 2 tablespoons of cocoa to the dough and knead well.

For fragrant cookies– add 1 tablespoon of cinnamon and knead too.

For the gingerbread cookies– add 0.5 teaspoon each of ground ginger and nutmeg and 1 tablespoon of honey.

For the lemon cookies– grate the lemon, only the skin, and add the resulting lemon zest to the cookies, you can also add the lemon juice itself. And knead the dough well.

For the nut cookies– add chopped peanuts, hazelnuts or walnuts in a coffee grinder.

For the coconut cookies– pour 2-5 tablespoons of coconut flakes into the dough. Knead well.

When our additive is evenly distributed throughout the entire dough mass. Every lump of dough is needed Wrap in plastic and put in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

Chilled dough roll out on the table sprinkled with flour and cut out hearts with a mold. If you (like me) don’t have heart molds, you can cut out hearts from regular cardboard and, placing them on the dough, trace them with a knife - I’ve already gotten the hang of it, and in 15 minutes I cut out a whole baking sheet of hearts.

Or you can cut regular round cookies into different sized shot glasses and then turn them into valentines by drawing hearts on them with icing.

Cut it out, place it on a baking sheet and put it in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 10-12 minutes.

Cookies bake very quickly, keep an eye on the time, as soon as it browns at the edges and turns yellow itself (do not wait until Brown), take it out immediately.

Now we get to the fun part about decorating. To do this, let's go back to the beginning of the article.

And on next page We'll be baking a lot of different cupcakes for Valentine's Day, like these.

Valentine's Day is a romantic holiday for all lovers. A time when you can and should confess your love to each other, give romantic gifts, love signs attention and of course have a candlelight dinner.

News portal The “site” in this article has prepared for you several master classes on design homemade cake for the holiday of St. Valentine's Day (Valentine's Day). Let the culmination of a romantic dinner be a real work of culinary art, into which you put a piece of your loving heart.

Pie in the hearts

Do you prefer making homemade pies with filling? Then use this option to decorate the cake. Fill the pie with a delicious filling, let the filling be bright red this holiday (it can be strawberries, cherries or jam from these berries).

Cover the pie filling with many hearts cut out from the dough using a cookie cutter.

Heart shaped cake

When, no matter how on Valentine's Day, serve a heart-shaped birthday cake. Making such a cake will not be difficult. Bake two cakes: one round shape, and the second is square in shape. Cut the round cake in half and place it on the square cake. Coat the cakes with cream and start decorating.

The cake can be covered with cream with the addition of red food coloring, or sprinkled with chocolate chips or decorative sprinkles.

You can decorate the edges of the cake with fresh strawberries, raspberries or cherries.

“I Love You” Cake

A very unusual and original cake - a declaration of love.

Start by baking a red crust using food coloring.

Cut out the necessary letters from the red cake. Place the letters in the mold in the desired order and fill with dough. Bake in the oven.

Cover the cake with a thick layer of cream, wrap with a thin layer of sugar mastic white.

Decorate the cake with red hearts cut out of red fondant. When cutting a cake for your loved one, be sure to confess your love!

Airy cake

The ideal and quick way to decorate a homemade cake for Valentine's Day is to use fluffy marshmallows in delicate shades: white, cream, pink. Simply cover the entire cake with fluffy marshmallows.

To make the cake look even more tender and romantic, add a few heart-shaped candies and decorative ribbons in delicate shades to the decoration.

Cake with cream hearts

Prepare cream for the cake in two colors: white and red. Frost the entire cake with white frosting and then place lots of red creamy dots all over the cake.

Using a thin stick, shape the dots into heart shapes. This decoration method is quick and beautiful.

Cake with candies

A great way to make a cake beautiful and elegant is to use small candies in multi-colored glaze to decorate it. Place a candy heart on the cake and decorate the sides of the cake with candies.





Instead of candy, you can use fresh berries, dried fruits and nuts.

Valentine's Day is one of those rare holidays that people look forward to. On this day, all lovers strive to show their feelings and prepare a surprise for their soulmate. We bring to your attention desserts that are suitable for February 14th:

• Ice cream sandwiches

To prepare the dessert, you need to take 225 g of butter and sugar.

These ingredients are thoroughly beaten, after which 4 chicken eggs and 2 tbsp are added to them. fresh milk, stir, add 225 g of wheat flour and 55 g of cocoa powder and get rid of lumps.

Carefully transfer the finished mixture into a baking dish (preferably in a heart shape) and leave in the oven (about 50 minutes). Cool and cut into 2 parts (divide into two heart layers).

Now let's take:

• whipped cream – 300 ml
• raspberries (preferably fresh) – 200 g
• melted chocolate – 150 g
• raspberries – another 50 g
• candied rose petals

Cream is mixed with raspberries to form a cream, which must be used to grease two previously prepared cake layers and connect them together. Chocolate, berries and rose petals are used to decorate our cake. Dessert is ready - it's time to celebrate Valentine's Day!

Marshmallow hearts from Valentine

To prepare this dish for Valentine's Day, you will need marshmallows or fluffy marshmallows (you can use soufflé). Using a special mold or a regular knife, cut out even hearts and place them in several layers on wooden skewers.

For the cream, melt a bar of your favorite chocolate (this is done in a water bath). Now you need to carefully dip all the marshmallows into chocolate and roll in colorful confetti.

As you can see, it's simple, but very delicious recipe for lovers.

To make this dessert for Valentine's, you will have to completely dissolve 3 tbsp. sugar with butter (half a pack) and add all the available spices (nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon, a teaspoon of ginger), as well as 1 tsp. soda, 1 egg and 260 g of wheat flour. At each stage, the mixture must be thoroughly mixed.

When the dough is ready, divide it into two parts and put it in the refrigerator for two hours, after wrapping it in cling film.

When taken out of the cold, the dough is rolled out into a layer 1 cm thick and hearts are cut out of it. These blanks are baked on a baking sheet at a temperature of 180 degrees.

The glaze is made from cranberry juice (2 tablespoons) and powdered sugar (half a cup). If you want to make Valentine's Day more colorful, try these other drinks:

• Carrot juice will give orange color to valentines;
• green color will be given by spinach;
• purple tint is inherent chokeberry etc.

Show your imagination, and then the dessert will turn out magnificent and very tasty, and Valentine's Day will remain in your memory forever!

On February 14, you can also prepare simple cookies, giving them a special charm. To do this, knead the dough from flour (250 g), sugar (75 g), butter (125 g), eggs (1 pc.) and a pinch of salt. Be sure to place it in several layers of cling film and leave it in the cold for 1 hour.

After this, you will have to carefully roll out the dough and cut out the hearts (there should be an even number of them). Divide the figures in half - you need to cut out the middle of half using a small mold (also in the shape of a heart).

Now brush the cookies with egg yolk, sprinkle with sugar and place in the oven for 10 minutes. We take it out, spread the base with strawberry, cherry or raspberry jam and cover it with the figurine and the cut out core (so that the jam comes out a little).