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13 easy and elegant desserts to celebrate Valentine's Day! These sweet treats are a wonderful way to say "I love you!".
Valentine's Day is right around the corner! These are some of our favorite easy and elegant dessert recipes that are perfect for all your celebrations. I always tell people the way to my husband's heart is through a baked good and he would be thrilled with any of these delicious recipes!
There's everything from festive pink cakes to rich, chocolate options. They are great for a family celebration with kids or a date night in. Enjoy!
Ridiculously Easy Cream Cheese Brownie Tart
This fabulously delicious Caramel Cream Cheese Brownie Tart is ridiculously easy to make, comes together in minutes and looks like a work of art from a fancy bake shop!
Ridiculously Easy Lemon Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta
A Ridiculously Easy Italian dessert that tastes like it comes from a fancy ristorante, this Lemon Vanilla Bean Panna cotta will make you look like a kitchen rock star!
Easy Chocolate Budino with Candied Maple Walnuts
This impressive but easy Chocolate Budino is a creamy Italian-inspired dessert that takes pudding to a whole new level. You'll fall in love with the first silky smooth bite!
Vanilla Bean Sheet Cake with Fresh Strawberry Icing
This fabulous Vanilla Bean Sheet Cake with Fresh Strawberry Icing comes together super quickly with just one bowl, a whisk, no mixer needed. The beautiful pink-hued icing is bursting with fresh strawberry flavor!
Strawberry-Glazed Pink Velvet Cake with Almond Butter Cream
This strawberry-glazed Pink Velvet Cake tastes like the BEST wedding cake, delicately sweet, with a soft, tender crumb and a fabulous silky almond buttercream (optional). Plus it's pretty as a (pink) picture! What's not to love?
Italian Raspberry Jam Ricotta Crumb Cake (Torta Sbrisolona)
This delicious Italian Ricotta Crumb Cake features a layer of creamy ricotta topped by a ribbon of raspberry jam nestled between a crisp, buttery dough that forms both the bottom crust and pretty crumb topping.
Easy Ritz Paris Cookie Tart (La Tarte aux Biscuits du Ritz Paris)
An easy, delicious sweet treat with a super fun gourmet twist, this Ritz Paris Cookie Tart has a rich, butterscotch base topped with dreamy chocolate chips, crisp almonds and soft, chewy caramel.
Magical, Melt-in-Your-Mouth 5-Minute Chocolate Mousse
This Magical Melt-in-Your-Mouth 5-Minute Chocolate Mousse sounds too good to be true But, trust me, if you have a few minutes to spare, you can make an incredibly delicious dessert that will bring rave reviews from everyone!
Ridiculously Easy Blender Chocolate Pots de Crème
No one will believe these delicious, make-ahead, dinner-party-worthy Blender Chocolate Pots de Crème took 5-minutes of hands-on time.
One-Bowl Buttermilk Cake with Raspberry Buttercream
This easy, One-Bowl Buttermilk Cake is always a huge hit with it's moist, tender crumb and incredibly delicious fresh raspberry buttercream!
Ridiculously Easy Raspberry Coulis
Just a fancy name for a delicious, super versatile raspberry sauce, this Ridiculously Easy Raspberry Coulis pairs fabulously with chocolate, lemon and a zillion other desserts! Along with being ridiculously easy, it's also ridiculously delicious!
Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake (Kladdkaka)
Kladdkaka (aka Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake) is one of Sweden's most beloved (and easy) desserts and every chocolate lover's dream come true! This version is also a one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that comes together quickly with pantry staples!
Ridiculously Easy Funfetti Sheet Cake
Besides being ridiculously easy (one bowl), no mixer), this Funfetti Sheet Cake is also moist, tender, ridiculously delicious and so FUN with a magical kaleidoscope of multi-hued polka dots!
Thought for the day:
For I am the LORD your God
Who takes hold of your right handÂ
and says to you,
"Do not fear; I will help you".
Isaiah 41:13
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Hi Chris. I love your recipes and love reading all that you share. I have a question about the red dye 3 that is in so many of the foods we buy. Do you have a safer brand of food coloring that you can recommend? Thank you for considering my question. Eileen
Magic Apple Cake
I've made this several times, As I was given a lot of apples last fall.
I love it because it uses 4 cups of chopped apples, and I always double the recipe to freeze one.
I use one of your toppings from a different cake and it comes out so delicious, everyone loves it
The topping is maple syrup, walnuts, dates, butter, cooked in a saucepan, then spread on top the batter before cooking.
I make more than you called for, at least double ingredients
That's great! Thank you for the review, Judy!