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Valentine’s Day will be here before you know it, and I’ve got you covered with all the BEST Valentine’s Day Dessert Recipes. You’ll find over 35 awesome recipes – everything from cheesecakes to cupcakes to puppy chow!
This is seriously an amazing list of treats for you to choose from. All the Valentine’s Day things you can think of – red, pink, hearts, champagne, chocolate – it’s all included. Plus, plenty of things that are perfect for adults and kids! Take your pick!

Table of Contents
- Cakes
- Red Velvet Cookie Cake
- Chocolate Covered Strawberry Layer Cake
- Chocolate Lava Cakes
- Homemade Strawberry Cake
- Rose Water Vanilla Layer Cake
- Chocolate Mousse Cake
- Raspberry Almond Layer Cake
- The Best Red Velvet Cake Recipe
- Red Wine Chocolate Poke Cake
- Layered Red Velvet Cheesecake Bundt Cake
- The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe
- Valentine’s Day Strawberry Cake Roll
- Candy and Sweet Treats
- Valentine’s Day Fudge
- Love Bug Oreo Cookie Balls
- Valentine’s Day Strawberries and Cream Puppy Chow
- Easy Chocolate Covered Strawberries
- Red Velvet Cake Truffles
- Love Bug Oreo Truffles
- Cheesecakes
- Strawberries and Cream Cheesecake Cake
- Creme Brûlée Cheesecake
- Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake
- Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cheesecake
- Red Velvet Cheesecake
- Cookies
- Linzer Cookies
- Cherry Kiss Cookies
- Red Velvet Cookies
- Strawberry Sprinkle Cookies
- Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups
- Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
- Red Velvet Hi-Hat Cookies
- Cupcakes
- Strawberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes
- Mini Rose Cheesecakes
- Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes
- Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes
- Mini Strawberry Champagne Cheesecakes
- Red Velvet Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
- Strawberry Truffle Cupcakes
- Champagne Cupcakes
- Red Velvet Cookie Dough Cupcakes
Cakes
It’s time to give your go-to red velvet cookie recipe a rest – there’s a new chief in town! Studded with white chocolate chips and topped with a velvety cream cheese frosting, this soft and chewy Red Velvet Cookie Cake is a gorgeous goodie that no one can resist.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Layer Cake
This Chocolate Covered Strawberry Layer Cake is a moist chocolate cake layered with fresh chopped strawberries, strawberry buttercream and chocolate ganache! It’s covered in a chocolate drip and chocolate covered strawberries for a stunning and delicious cake!
Chocolate Lava Cakes
These Chocolate Lava Cakes are decadent, gooey and will melt in your mouth! Served with a scoop of ice cream, they are an easy treat to whip up!
Homemade Strawberry Cake
This Homemade Strawberry Cake is full of sweet, fresh strawberry flavor! Moist strawberry cake layers are paired with a strawberry cream cheese frosting for the ultimate strawberry cake! The texture isn’t light and fluffy, but instead tender with a tight crumb. You might even find it a little dense, but not too heavy.
Rose Water Vanilla Layer Cake
This Rose Water Vanilla Layer Cake is my new favorite! It’s a moist and fluffy vanilla cake with rose water buttercream frosting and it’s SO good!
Chocolate Mousse Cake
Chocolate Mousse Cake with three layers of moist chocolate cake and two layers of smooth & creamy chocolate mousse – all covered in chocolate whipped cream!
Raspberry Almond Layer Cake
This Raspberry Almond Layer Cake has three layers of moist, fluffy almond cake filled with fresh raspberry frosting. It’s such a pretty cake and it tastes even better than it looks!
The Best Red Velvet Cake Recipe
This moist and tangy homemade Red Velvet Cake is layered with a fluffy cream cheese frosting for a classic dessert that you’ll savor every bite of. It’s super easy to prepare and it makes a wonderful treat for birthdays, Valentine’s Day or any other festive occasion!
Red Wine Chocolate Poke Cake
Red Wine Chocolate Poke Cake is moist chocolate cake made with red wine, then soaked with more chocolate and red wine! The topping is a fresh strawberry whipped cream! A dreamy and easy chocolate cake recipe.
Layered Red Velvet Cheesecake Bundt Cake
This Layered Red Velvet Cheesecake Bundt Cake is the best red velvet cake ever! Perfectly moist and tasty, the cheesecake swirl layered in it makes it even better! Red velvet and cheesecake is a match made in heaven.
The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe
This is the Best Chocolate Cake recipe! Moist homemade chocolate cake made completely from scratch. This is the kind of chocolate cake everyone should have in their recipe collection!
Candy and Sweet Treats
Valentine’s Day Fudge
This Valentine’s Day Fudge is made with only four ingredients! It’s full of colorful pink, red and white sprinkles and makes an easy treat for sharing with your Valentine!
These Love Bug Oreo Cookie Balls are so fun for Valentine’s Day and a great treat for sharing! Learn how to make them with simple ingredients – pretzels, eyeball candies and sprinkles!
Valentine’s Day Strawberries and Cream Puppy Chow
Valentine’s Day Strawberries and Cream Puppy Chow is a no bake dessert recipe that makes a cute & festive treat for Valentine’s Day. This easy puppy chow is perfect for sharing with family and friends!
Easy Chocolate Covered Strawberries
This Easy Chocolate Covered Strawberries recipe is one of my favorite simple desserts! Learn how to make chocolate covered strawberries and decorate them for sharing or gifting!
Red Velvet Cake Truffles
Red Velvet Cake Truffles are the ultimate Valentine’s Day treat. Be prepared to fall head over heels for these sweet bites!
Cheesecakes
Strawberries and Cream Cheesecake Cake
This Strawberries and Cream Cheesecake Cake is perfect in every way! With two layers of strawberry cake and a creamy layer of vanilla cheesecake in the middle, this cake is no joke.
Creme Brûlée Cheesecake
This Creme Brûlée Cheesecake is made with a creamy brown sugar cheesecake, pastry cream and caramelized sugar on top! It’s a fun twist on traditional creme brûlée with lots of flavor!
Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake
This Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake is made with layers of moist red velvet cake and thick and creamy cheesecake! If you’ve ever had the cheesecake by the same name at The Cheesecake Factory and loved it, this is the perfect recipe to make at home!
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cheesecake
This Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cheesecake recipe is made with a strawberry cheesecake filling and chocolate Oreo crust, all covered in chocolate ganache and chocolate covered strawberries!
Red Velvet Cheesecake
Made with a classic Oreo crust, this Red Velvet Cheesecake is one of the smoothest and creamiest cheesecakes I’ve ever tasted. It has that light tanginess that’s so loved in a red velvet dessert, and the whipped cream cheese topping finishes it off perfectly!
Filled with fruit jam, these Linzer Cookies are the perfect holiday gift. Irresistibly crumbly and buttery, they’re a real treat.
Wonderfully cute, these Cherry Chocolate Kiss Cookies are the perfect holiday treat. The secret to their flavor? Cherry juice.
These sweet and creamy Red Velvet Cookies with white chocolate chips are an irresistible treat for your cookie boxes this holiday season.
Soft and chewy, these Strawberry Sprinkle Cookies are made with just 8 ingredients. Each one is full of strawberry flavor and covered with sprinkles for a fun sweet treat for any occasion – not to mention a quick & easy Valentine’s Day dessert!
These Strawberry Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups are super fun, easy to make and beautiful! They’re great for sharing or enjoying as an individual treat.
Looking for a great Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookie Recipe? These classic sugar cookies are decorated with royal icing in a variety of gorgeous Valentine’s Day designs. Learn to master four different cookie decorations with our easy step-by-step photo guide.
Cupcakes
Strawberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
These Strawberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting are perfect! So moist and fluffy! And they are an amazing copy of one my favorite cupcakes!
Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes
These Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes are moist, tender and totally addicting! There are pieces of chopped strawberry in the cupcake and they are topped with strawberry buttercream! So much flavor and perfect for spring and summer!
Mini Rose Cheesecakes
These Mini Rose Cheesecakes are so lovely for Valentine’s Day and are flavored with rose water! They make a romantic little treat that’s great for gifting!
Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes
These Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes are smooth, creamy and made with an Oreo cookie crumb crust, chocolate ganache topping and chocolate whipped cream! A classic little treat with plenty of chocolate!
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes made with moist chocolate cupcake, strawberry frosting & chocolate covered strawberries! A Valentines Day recipe win!
Mini Strawberry Champagne Cheesecakes
These darling little Strawberry Champagne Cheesecakes! Each cupcake-style cheesecake has a crispy vanilla wafer crust, a creamy champagne filling with fresh strawberry chunks, plus a fluffy strawberry champagne whipped cream topping.
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
These Red Velvet Cupcakes are super moist and topped with a delicious chocolate cream cheese frosting! Decorate with sprinkles and hearts to make them extra festive.
Strawberry Truffle Cupcakes
These Strawberry Truffle Cupcakes are moist vanilla cupcakes filled with strawberry truffle filling, topped with white chocolate buttercream! A perfect strawberry dessert for Valentine’s Day!
Champagne Cupcakes
These Champagne Cupcakes are super moist and full of satisfying champagne flavor! They’d be perfect For New Year’s Eve or any other special occasion.
Everything looks delicious especially the cupcakes! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Thanks Jill!
These are seriously amazing! These cookie cups are so pretty! Love the strawberry cake filling! I would be one happy lady if I got these for Valentine’s!
Those strawberry truffle cupcakes are calling my name! This list is great, Lindsay; SO many good options for Valentine’s Day!
I love to bake, and this post was amazing! I am 11 years old, and I have a passion of books and food. I want to study culinary art in Greece someday. I have a major sweet tooth. My favorite dessert on this post was the No-Bake Strawberry Milkshake Cheesecake. Yum! Thank you for posting this!
Hi Lucia! I have a major sweet tooth too! I’m so glad you enjoyed the post! Good luck pursuing your dreams – it sounds like a wonderful goal!
These look delicious!
I’m not going to lie. I can’t believe it’s almost Valentine’s Day! What the what?! Thanks for saving me with all these great treat options!
Each one looks delicious than the other, especially with strawberries.
Thanks Mia! I love strawberries too! 🙂
So much goodness for one post but I think my fav is the Nutella Cheesecake Chocolate Cookie Cups. Gorgeous variety!
Pinned.
Happy Friday!
Thanks Melanie! Happy Friday! 🙂
What a great collection of treats, Lindsay! Each one looks better than the next. I’m loving all of the red velvet desserts, sounds perfect!
Thanks Gayle!