Cakes for Valentine’s Day, easy recipes to prepare with chocolate, decorated with cream and heart-shaped

Are you looking for Valentine’s Day cake ideas? There are so many recipes to try that it is impossible to list them all: in sugar paste, in chocolate, decorated with cream, in the shape of a heart. More or less easy to be baked, they can complete any Valentine’s Day menu at home, both for lunch and dinner. Whether you are looking for a treat to tempt the palate of your sweetheart or to conquer whoever you like, below you will find a lot of ideas. You will only have to indulge the recipient’s tastes – to be explored if you do not yet know him well – or opt for your favourite (couple) dessert.

Sugar paste cakes for Valentine’s Day

Beyond what one might think, the sugar paste cakes for Valentine’s Day are the most scenic and beautiful to look at. It matters little if you won’t eat this cover (not everyone likes it). The sugar paste allows you to shape a dessert according to your preferences. It can be used to cover the whole cake or even just to create decorations: hearts, writings, bears, messages and any kind of love symbol. But, remember, you’ll need to stock up on red food colouring. This type of dessert takes time and patience, take it into account if you are short of the first or the second. For the base, you can use the sponge cake recipe to be filled with mascarpone cream, for example, alternatively, you can prepare a gluten-free cake.

Valentine’s day chocolate cakes

Making a chocolate cake romantic isn’t difficult if you have clear ideas. Whether you want to make a round cake or a banana bread in a loaf tin, you can then glaze it entirely with melted dark chocolate with a teaspoon of butter and sprinkle, here and there, some red sugar hearts, which will stand out on the dessert making it more beautiful to the eye. Alternatively, the choices in terms of chocolate cakes are many: how about a mud cake, a chocolate and raspberry mousse, a devil’s food cake, a Sacher or also a gluten-free brownie cake?

Valentine’s day cakes decorated with cream

The cakes decorated with cream are an alternative to those in sugar paste. Whipped cream is also within the reach of those unfamiliar with cake design. Just have a piping bag available to create tufts on the surface of any carrot cake or sponge cake in layers, filled as you like, making it up to the most famous pastry shops. Depending on the spouts used, many decorations can be made. A few examples? You can create romantic cream roses, a basket cover, parallel stripes or balls. With the addition, or not, of fruit and flowers.

Heart-shaped cakes for Valentine’s Day

Of course, heart-shaped sweets can’t be missing. If one of the most beautiful is the cream tart (composed of layers of sponge cake or shortcrust dough, filled with cream and meticulously decorated with fruit, flower petals, candies and all that the imagination suggests), the less patient can opt for a baked chocolate cake in a heart-shaped mould and filled with a white chocolate ganache, with which to spread even the surface and on which to spread chocolates of different shapes. Certainly successful is the Red Velvet, a fixed presence of every Valentine’s Day that, as well as in a heart-shaped mould, you can cook in single-portion moulds to make cupcakes.

Easy Valentine’s Day Cakes

Don’t you have a great desire to spend hours in the kitchen but would still like to tempt the palate of your partner? Who forbids you from opting for one of the easiest Valentine’s Day cakes you can bake? A nice heart-shaped tart is simple, quick and it can be filled with a classic jam or even with Nutella or a spreadable chocolate cream homemade (for the sweet tooth). Or, you can always opt for a brownie, which does not require any particular skills but which gives great satisfaction. Just cut it into squares, decorate it with a dollop of whipped cream and complete with a little red sugar heart.