40 Valentine's Day Dessert Recipes That You'll Fall in Love With (2024)

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What is the 250000 Valentine's dessert? ›

So what do you get for your quarter of a million dollars? The dessert is covered in Austrian crystals, 23K edible gold, edible glitter, and even edible diamonds(?). It also comes with an 18K white gold ring featuring a pink heart-shaped diamond, a blue pear-shaped diamond, and a white diamond.

Chocolate covered strawberries are a classic treat on Valentine's Day but the store-bought variety are often pretty expensive. Luckily, they're easy to make at home and you can even get creative with decorating them: sprinkles, chopped nuts, or crushed freeze-dried strawberries!

Molten chocolate lava cakes are the ultimate chocolate dessert indulgence. Top each warm chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream. You'll be surprised at how quickly this reader-favorite dessert comes together.

A good-quality steak with a potato side is a timeless choice, but couples craving a lighter romantic meal may go for fish like sea bass or salmon. And naturally, there are plenty of vegetarian and vegan picks for Valentine's Day. Italian dishes, like pasta, are also a classic Valentine's Day choice.

“Purple in Love” ($8.99) is the signature award-winning dessert here. Condensed milk coats a bowl carefully piled with crushed ice topped with grape syrup and evaporated milk for a light purple colour, mochi ice cream cut into pieces, rice cake, and grapes.

On Valentine's Day every year, there are at least 36 million heart shape boxes of chocolates sold.

The top gifts include candy (57%), greeting cards (40%), flowers (39%), an evening out (32%), jewelry (22%), clothing (21%) and gift cards (19%). New spending records are expected for jewelry ($6.4 billion), flowers ($2.6 billion), clothing ($3 billion) and an evening out ($4.9 billion).

1. Valentine's Day cards. Although cards are usually given in combination with other gifts like flowers or chocolates, more than 52% of consumers will present their loved ones with a Valentine's Day card. You can score some extra points by personalizing your card with a photo or heartfelt poem.

Candy: As the saying goes, “Candy for the win!” It comes as no surprise that candy tops the list, with 57% of people purchasing sweets for their loved ones on Valentine's Day. Chocolates, in particular, are a timeless classic and a symbol of romance.

Hershey's Hugs and Kisses Assortment

A Hershey's Kiss is a classic for a reason. This Hugs and Kisses assortment not only comes with the traditional Hershey's Kiss wrapped in silver foil, but it also includes Hershey's Kisses made from white creme candy filled with milk chocolate wrapped in pink and silver foil.

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Everybody Wants Chocolate

According to CandyStore.com, 37 out of 50 states in the U.S. prefer some kind of chocolate to any other sort of Valentine candy. Chocolate is the most popular candy for Valentine's Day for a reason.

In 1902, the candy hearts evolved into the ones we know today and continue to be made every year from late February to mid-January. During that time, around eight billion — 100,000 pounds — of candy hearts are made, and the entire amount is sold out within six weeks.

Pitched at the world's growing class of ultra-rich 1 percenters is the most expensive Valentine's dinner ever: a $99,300 meal that will be prepared by a Michelin-starred chef at your home.

The most expensive dessert is The Frozen Haute Chocolate ice cream sundae costing $25,000 (£12,000), which was added to the menu of the Serendipity 3 restaurant, New York, USA on 7 November 2007. The dessert uses a fine blend of 28 cocoas, including 14 of the world's most expensive.