20 Elegant Valentine’s Day Recipes

Published: Feb 9, 2021 · Modified: Jan 16, 2024 by Genevieve Morrison · This post may contain affiliate links

These 20 elegant Valentine’s Day recipes are romantic, colorful, decadent and perfect for a night in with someone special, or a party with friends you love. You’ll find appetizers, desserts and cocktails that will enchant and surprise. Show someone you love them with one of these recipes!

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I love Valentine’s Day! It’s a day to make something sweet and share it with someone you love (or a whole bunch of people that you love!) Sending pretty valentines and texts full of heart emojis make me so happy!

I also love a fun “Gal-entine’s day” or even a “Pal-entine’s Day” (for the guys or mixed company… and yes, I think I came up with that), so whether you’re planning a nice party for friends, or a romantic evening for 2, you’ll find some delicious recipes below that say “I love you for being you.”

1. An Easy, Inexpensive Cheese Board for Valentine’s Day

A cheese board with 3 cheeses, crackers, olives and raspberries on a lace tablecloth.

An Easy, Inexpensive Cheese Board for Valentine’s Day

This easy, inexpensive Valentine’s Day cheese board has just 3 cheeses, crackers, olives, berries, a little strawberry preservers and a few tiny flowers. It can be assembled in just 5 minutes, but looks so thoughtful and romantic! All you need is a cheese board, cheese knife and a little heart-shaped cookie cutter to create this memorable Valentine’s or Galentine’s Day treat.

A heart of preserves cut into cheese on a board beside 2 stacks of crackers on a lace tablecloth.

2. White Rosemary Rose Cocktail

A cocktail in a martini glass on a black table, garnished with a few small spray roses.

The White Rosemary Rose Coconut Cocktail

This White Rosemary Rose coconut cocktail 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 cocktail!

A White Rosemary Rose cocktail in a martini glass, garnished with small roses, with a few roses at its base.

3. Tomato Crostini with Pesto and Ricotta

4 pesto crostini with prosciutto roses on a wooden board.

Tomato Crostini with Pesto and Ricotta

This recipe includes fresh, homemade pesto and pretty prosciutto roses! It’s a gorgeous and delicious appetizer for Mother’s Day or a perfect addition to any spring or summer brunch buffet!

12 Cranberry puff bites in a mini-cupcake tin.

4. Romantic Valentine’s Day Deviled Eggs

A red deviled egg, garnished with flowers and radishes on a marble slate.

Romantic Valentines Day Deviled Eggs

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!

A deviled egg with red filling, garnished with sprouts, radishes, tiny flowers and poppyseeds on a white marble table.

5. Bruschetta with Burrata, Seared Tomatoes & Roasted Garlic

11 bruschetta on a marble slate with tomato, burrata and a prosciutto rose, garnished with basil.

Cranberry Maple Bourbon Smash Cocktail

This Cranberry Maple Bourbon Smash Cocktail is the perfect fall cocktail. Whip up a batch of maple-cranberry simple syrup in just 5-minutes. Then combine it with bourbon and cranberry juice, top it with a rosemary sprig and enjoy!

A maple cranberry smash cocktail on a table beside garnishes.

6. How to Make a Bacon Rose Bouquet

A “bouquet” of bacon roses with leaves and dry, yellow spray roses in a glass vase on a table.

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!

A “bouquet” of bacon roses in a vase with leaves and yellow spray roses.

7. The Fanciest Cheese Board

Meat roses on the end of a cheese board with mint and crackers.

The Fanciest Cheese Board

This fancy cheese board is so easy to prepare and assemble with no complicated ingredient arranging!

2 pink cocktails on a white table, garnished with thyme and lime slices.

8. Beet Napoleons with Prosciutto Roses

6 beet napoleons, with prosciutto roses on top, garnished with cilantro leaves on a plate.

Beet Napoleons with Prosciutto Roses

No, they’re not red velvet, they’re beautiful beet napoleon appetizers with chive cream cheese and tiny prosciutto roses on top! They're earthy, creamy, and perfectly bite-size!

A small beet napoleon, with a prosciutto rose on top, on a white plate.

9. Pretty Prosciutto Rose Appetizers

6 crackers with cream cheese, 3 prosciutto roses and dill on marble.

Filet Mignon Bites with Creamy Horseradish Sauce

Filet Mignon Bites with creamy horseradish sauce are the perfect elegant appetizer. Mini filet mignons are wrapped in bacon and served with a thick and tangy dipping sauce.

Filet mignon bites, wrapped in bacon and stuck with toothpicks, beside a sauce on a metal plate.

10. The Divine Damiana Valentine Cocktail

A cocktail on a dark table garnished with raspberries and small flowers, with a few raspberries and flowers at its base.

The Damiana Valentine Cocktail

If you’re looking for a cocktail to really put you in the mood, this Damiana tea and sake cocktail is a divine Valentine aphrodisiac. Cold steep your tea over night for the sweetest flavor.

A cocktail on a dark table garnished with raspberries and small flowers, with a few raspberries and flowers at its base.

11. No Bake Blackberry Sorel Cheesecake

A blackberry Sorel cheesecake on a wooden table, garnished with berries and flowers.

No Bake Blackberry Sorel Cheesecake

This creamy no-bake cheesecake, topped with blackberry compote, includes Sorel liqueur and an easy vanilla wafer crust!

a cherry cheesecake in paper wrapping, topped with cherries on a gingham table cloth.

12. The Pink Cherry Blossom Maraschino Liqueur Cocktail

A pink cocktail, garnished with a cherry and small cherry blossoms on a black table.

The Pink Cherry Blossom Maraschino Liqueur Cocktail

Lightly sweet, citrusy and with a hint of cherry, it's a perfect cocktail for Easter, Mother's Day, a feminine bridal shower or celebration of April's cherry blossom season!

A pink cocktail, garnished with a cherry and small cherry blossoms on a black table.

13. Prosciutto and Melon Skewers

A long plate of melon bamboo skewers on a table beside daffodils in glass vases..

Prosciutto and Melon Skewers

With only 5 ingredients, they’re the easiest, prettiest appetizers or side dish for a colorful brunch, baby shower or mother’s day breakfast.

11 ornately decorated chocolate-covered strawberries.

14. Crostini with Balsamic Strawberries and Ricotta

10 balsamic strawberry crostini, garnished with small flowers, on a marble plate.

Crostini with Balsamic Strawberries and Ricotta

These crostini with balsamic strawberries and ricotta are sweet, tart, creamy and perhaps the prettiest appetizers you can serve at your next fancy picnic, Mother’s Day brunch or bridal shower.

A balsamic strawberry crostini, garnished with a few small flowers, surrounded by others on a marble plate.

15. Greek Yogurt with Cherry Spoon Sweets

3 bowls of yogurt and cherries on a table beside cherry blossoms.

Greek Yogurt with Cherry Spoon Sweets

This traditional Greek breakfast, yogurt with “spoon sweet” cherries is a delightful breakfast for special company.

2 Kir Royale cocktails in champagne flutes on a table, garnished with raspberries.

16. 5 Pretty Rose Garnishes for Cocktails, Appetizers & Entrees

A whisky cocktail on a black table, surrounded by pink roses, garnished with a prosciutto rose and olive.

17. Burrata Salad with Balsamic Glaze

An ornate plate of burrata salad with flowers, tomatoes, blackberries and meat roses on a lace table cloth.

Burrata Salad with Balsamic Glaze

This burrata salad with balsamic glaze includes pretty prosciutto roses, shaved asparagus, cherry tomatoes, ripe blackberries and arugula. A perfect side dish for Mother’s day or any pretty, Spring party!

8 grilled oysters on a plate beside a grilled lemon slice.

18. White Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse with Raspberry Compote

3 glasses of white chocolate mousse with raspberry compote swirls on a black table with a few roses and spoons at their base.

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.

3 glasses of white chocolate mousse with raspberry compote swirls on a black table with a few roses and spoons at their base.

19. The Pretty Pink Gin Martini

A pink martini, garnished with a pink spray rose and a sprig of thistle on a black table.

The Pretty Pink Gin Martini

This pink gin martini is made with Gin Lane 1751 and has such an enchanting, feminine air. More complex than a traditional martini, this cocktail includes a delicate herbal spice, perfect for a baby shower, Easter or any lady-like affair!

A pink cocktail on a table, garnished with a rose and thistle, with roses at its base.

20. Deviled Eggs with Bacon Roses

3 deviled eggs garnished with tiny bacon roses, oregano leaves and a sprinkle of poppy seeds.

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!

A deviled egg, garnished with a small bacon rose and a few tiny thyme leaves on a marble plate, in front of 2 other eggs.

I hope you love these Valentine’s Day recipes as much as I do! Wishing you a loving, happy day, from my heart to yours.

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Angela

January 20, 2024 at 1:18 pm

These creations are so elegant and beautiful and look delicious!

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- Genevieve Morrison
  
  January 20, 2024 at 6:01 pm
  
  Thank you Angela!
  
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