Easy Valentine’s Day Dessert Recipes

Build the Ultimate Valentine’s Day Dessert Box

My favorite way to celebrate Valentine’s Day is with a dessert box filled with homemade sweet treats meant for sharing (or not—no judgment). A mix of textures, flavors and sizes gives the box that bakery-worthy look while making it feel thoughtful and special.

All the Desserts in My Valentine’s Day Box

If you want to recreate my Valentine’s Day dessert box exactly as pictured, here’s the full lineup. It’s a mix of chocolatey favorites, fruity treats and bite-sized sweets that stack and pack beautifully:

• Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries
• Saltine Cracker Toffee
• Chocolate Covered Pretzels
• Homemade Soft Caramels
• Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownie Bites
• Chocolate Chipless Cookies
• Valentine’s Day Peanut Butter Blossoms
• Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Whether you’re gifting it to friends, teachers, neighbors or someone you love, a dessert box is a fun way to skip the cliché chocolates and go homemade instead.

My Favorite Valentine’s Day Treats

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Piped Cream Cheese Frosting: Moist, rich and topped with the best cream cheese frosting, these treats are perfect for Valentine’s Day!

Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies: This easy-to-follow recipe transforms a classic red velvet cake mix into chewy, vibrant red velvet cookies that are loaded with white chocolate chips and perfect for any occasion. Best of all, they’re made with just 4 ingredients!

Chocolate Lava Cakes with Raspberry Sauce: These rich and fudgy molten lava cakes take just 18 minutes to make! They’re the ultimate easy but impressive dessert recipe for Valentine’s Day.

White Chocolate-Covered Strawberries: These strawberries are so impressive to look at, but couldn’t be easier to make. They’re one of my fave ways to add as a special topper to cakes, cupcakes and brownies.

Chocolate Covered Pretzels: Sweet, salty and endlessly customizable, these chocolate-covered pretzels are an easy no-bake treat that’s perfect for gifting. Dress them up with Valentine’s sprinkles or a drizzle of white chocolate for a festive finish.

Cottage Cheese Chocolate Mousse: This cottage cheese chocolate mousse is an easy way to add a protein punch to dessert. Made with just four ingredients, it comes together in minutes and is easy to customize with peanut butter or protein powder.

Red Velvet Brookies: Half red velvet brownie, half chocolate chip cookie, they’re the ultimate combination of two dessert favorites! They’re rich, fudgy and best of all, made with basic pantry ingredients.

Chocolate Truffles: Silky ganache rolled into poppable bites bathed in a bowl of cocoa powder.

Pink Pinwheel Sugar Cookies: These buttery cookies are made with basic pantry ingredients. Best of all, the dough can be prepared up to a week in advance then sliced and baked.

Flourless Chocolate Cookies: They’re extra-rich and fudgy in texture, very brownie-like in taste and the perfect flourless treats for Valentine’s Day and beyond.

Easy No-Bake Chocolate Tart with Raspberries: No baking, a little stirring, and a whole lot of luscious flavor packed into an Oreo cookie crust and a silky ganache filling. Pop some juicy raspberries on top and the best no-bake Valentine’s dessert is done!

Chocolate Puff Pastry Twists: Dessert doesn’t get much easier or more impressive than these oversized puff pastry twists that bake up in minutes!

Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies: Fudgy red velvet brownies swirled with a tangy cheesecake filling that’s luscious, creamy and not too sweet. It’ll be love at first bite!

Chewy Chocolate Brownie Bark: This one’s for all my brownie edge lovers! With a few fridge and pantry staples (and just 15 minutes of your time) you can whip up an entire tray of brownie brittle studded with chocolate chips and loaded with fudgy flavor.

Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownie Bites: These chewy red velvet brownies are swirled with tangy cheesecake filling for a bite-sized treat.

Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies: Buttery shortbread and velvety ganache join forces for these bite-sized cookies.

Homemade Turtle Candy: This easy turtle candy recipe skips the candy thermometer and keeps things simple with store-bought caramels and a microwave. The result? That classic chewy-crunchy bite without any of the stress.

Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Brownies: Magic happens when fudgy, chocolate chip-studded brownies become the base for such a stellar fruit-filled topping. These are a Valentine’s Day must!

Soft-Baked M&M Cookies: Some days you really need a chewy cookie, specifically one that’s soft, rich and studded with M&Ms.

The Best Chocolate Cupcakes: Satisfy your chocolate cravings with these extra moist, rich and incredibly chocolatey cupcakes. And don’t forget the buttercream frosting!

Strawberry Cheesecake Chimichangas: Because the only thing better than a slice of strawberry cheesecake is strawberry cheesecake tucked inside a buttery, fried tortilla that’s rolled in cinnamon-sugar.

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Pretzel Tart: The pretzel crust bakes up in minutes and the creamy filling requires no baking at all. The result is a crunchy, salty pretzel tart loaded with a rich chocolate-peanut butter filling.

Easy Crème Brûlée Cheesecakes: Cool and creamy cheesecake custard topped with the classic sugary crunch.

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake: Bursting with gooey chocolate chips and baked to perfection, it’s the perfect treat for any occasion.

Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Cake: Dense, moist cake meets rich chocolate glaze meets fresh, juicy berries. This bundt cake is loaded up with all the good stuff, including tangy Greek yogurt and a hearty swirl of strawberry jam.

Easy No-Bake Cheesecake: Creamy, creamy, creamy cheesecake filling sans the stress of a water bath, the potential of a cracked top, and fussing and fretting over texture that commonly accompanies making a stellar cheesecake.

No-Bake Chocolate Cheesecake Cups: Step aside, peanut butter cups. There’s a new bite-sized sweet stealing the dessert spotlight. Creamy cheesecake-filled dark chocolate cups topped off with a pinch of sea salt.

Strawberry Nutella Hand Pies: Sour cream pie dough pockets stuffed with juicy strawberries and creamy Nutella topped with sanding sugar for a bakery-quality touch.

Chocolate Raspberry Cake: Three layers of moist chocolate cake, tangy cream cheese frosting, and juicy raspberries come together for a show-stopping dessert that’s perfect for Valentine’s Day.

Saltine Cracker Toffee: Sweet, salty, crunchy, and perfect for topping with pink, red and white sprinkles. This homemade chocolate-toffee candy is perfect for gifting and sharing.

Easy Homemade Churros with Chocolate Sauce: Hot, crispy, fried batons of delicious dough rolled in cinnamon and sugar. All you need is a few simple ingredients for homemade churros perfection.

Individual Fruit and Brownie Trifles: This layered sweet stars fudgy brownie croutons, juicy raspberries and pillowy DIY whipped cream.

Chocolate Chipless Cookies: Ditch the chocolate chips and fall in love with chewy, chocolate chipless cookies. They’re soft, buttery and full of rich caramel flavor. Dip the bottoms in chocolate and finish with festive sprinkles, or keep them simple and let the cookie shine.

Easy Homemade Lollipops: All you need is three simple ingredients for this tried and tested lollipops recipe.

Homemade Salted Caramels: This easy-to-follow recipe delivers perfectly chewy caramels with a hint of sea salt, making each bite a delightful balance of flavors. Whether as a homemade gift or a treat for yourself, these caramels are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

Homemade Fudge Pops: Cool and creamy chocolate pops loaded with fresh berries are a summer dessert win.

Easy Strawberry Shortcake: This dessert stars a one-bowl biscuit recipe that yields buttery, flaky shortcakes perfect for halving and stuffing with freshly sliced strawberries, and of course, homemade whipped cream.

White Chocolate Cheesecake Cookies: They pair the pillowy lightness and tanginess of cheesecake with the chewy bite of a classic chocolate chip cookie.

Frosted Soft Sugar Cookie Bars: Forget the cookie cutters in favor of this foolproof recipe starring a buttery sugar cookie base topped with an easy-to-make buttercream frosting and sprinkles.

Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting: Vanilla bean cupcakes, vanilla bean frosting, vanilla bean allllll the things. So if you have a serious passion for intense vanilla flavor, look no further than these extra-moist and fluffy cupcakes.