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Planning a special evening for two? Help yourself to these romantic appetizers, dinners, co*cktails and desserts and create a perfectly decadent menu!
I love Valentine’s Day! It’s a day dedicated just to showing someone that you love them, and my favorite way to show someone I love them is with tasty, romantic, decadent, heart-warming recipes, made just for 2. Every one of these recipes is perfect for a cozy, candle-lit night in!
Decadent Dinners & Sides
1. Instant Pot Beef Bourguignon
Instant Pot Beef Bourguignon
This exquisite Instant Pot Beef Bourguignon recipe is the most perfect meal for a cozy, casual night or a fancy dinner party.
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2. Homemade French Onion Soup
Easy French Onion Soup
This easy french onion soup recipe is quite rich, not too sweet, not too savory and sure to warm your chilly winter bones. It also takes less than an hour to make!
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3. Stuffed Cornish Game Hen with Garlic and Sage
Stuffed Cornish Game Hen with Garlic and Sage
This tender garlic and sage Cornish game hen is stuffed with delicious, homemade Anjou pear and baby bella mushroom stuffing. The best recipe for an elegantly rustic dinner party with friends!
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4. Sage Butter Scallops with Brie & Roasted Garlic Basmati
These sage butter seared scallops are so simple, so luscious and so impressive, especially when served with creamy brie basmati rice with a roasted garlic, red onion whisky sauce.
Want to create the prettiest Valentine's Day deviled eggs? All you need is some mustard, mayo, sour cream and a little drop of dye or all-natural beet juice color. They’re so pretty, they’ll make cupid’s wing flutter!
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6. Bruschetta with Mozzarella, Seared Tomatoes & Roasted Garlic
Bruschetta with Burrata, Seared Tomatoes & Roasted Garlic
This delicious bruschetta recipe with fresh burrata, seared cherry tomatoes and roasted garlic is the most decadent appetizer at your Italian dinner party, the most elegant appetizer at the bridal shower or a luxurious evening snack for one!
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7. How to Make a Bacon Rose Bouquet
How to Make Bacon Roses
Nothing says “I love you” like a perfectly crispy bacon rose! Learn how to make exquisitely crispy, lifelike bacon roses and arrange them perfectly in a beautiful bouquet!
These perfectly easy canapés can be made ahead of time, are served cold, and are simply perfect for a fancy Spring or Summer celebration!
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9. Deviled Eggs with Bacon Roses
Deviled Eggs with Bacon Roses
This deviled egg recipe is creamy and smooth with just a touch of Old Bay seasoning, and when topped with precious bacon roses, they’ll be the prettiest, most impressive crowd-pleasers at your next party!
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Dangerous Deserts
10. White Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse with Raspberry Compote
White Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse with Raspberry Compote
This no-bake, creamy, decadent white chocolate cheesecake mousse recipe is ribboned with raspberry-rosemary compote. It’s gluten-free, silky and sweet, tart and delicately hinted with rosemary essence.
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11. Lemon and Raspberry Cheesecake Bars
Lemon and Raspberry Cheesecake Bars
These beautiful lemon and raspberry cheesecake bars are both tart and sweet, perfect for garden parties or picnics, and so very easy to make!
You’ll require a food processor and 15×10 pyrex for this recipe.
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12. Cranberry Apple Crisp with Maple Granola
Cranberry Apple Crisp with Maple Granola
This delightful cranberry apple crisp recipe is sweet, tart, crispy, chewy and crunchy! It’s so easy to make and can be made without oats and vegan, too!
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Romantic co*cktails
13. The Divine Damiana Valentine co*cktail
The Damiana Valentine co*cktail
If you’re looking for a co*cktail to really put you in the mood, this Damiana tea and sake co*cktail is a divine Valentine aphrodisiac. Cold steep your tea over night for the sweetest flavor.
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14. White Rosemary Rose Coconut co*cktail
The White Rosemary Rose Coconut co*cktail
This White Rosemary Rose coconut co*cktail tastes like winter white magic! With coconut milk, white rum, honey and rosewater, it’s not too sweet and not too floral. It’s delicate, dreamy and makes such an elegant, rosy co*cktail!
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15. Spicy Mexican Chocolate Liqueur
Spicy Mexican Chocolate Liqueur
This spicy Mexican chocolate liqueur is exquisitely creamy, dreamy and deliciously dangerous! Add it to coffee or sip it all on its own at your next elegant fiesta!
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I hope you enjoy these Valentine’s Day recipes!
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