Planning a squishy, romantic, candle-lit dinner for two? Finish off your Valentine’s Day meal right, with a sweet dessert for your sweetheart. We have recipes with all the ingredients that sing with love, like strawberries, raspberries, figs; chocolate is a given. Persian love cakes? We have two recipes for those.
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Shiraz gin and pear brioche cake with gin ice-cream
Pistachio and rose roulade with lychees and raspberries
Burnt honey panna cotta with chamomile strawberries
Chocolate mousse with white chocolate and corn flake crumble
Crushed strawberry and pistachio éclairs
Jaclyn Koludrovic’s gluten-free lemon verbena, white chocolate and fig tart
Guillaume Brahimi’s salted caramel and chocolate ganache tart
Raspberry and vanilla jubes with lime sugar
Curtis Stone’s yoghurt panna cotta with strawberries and rosewater
Rhubarb and strawberry tart with candied pistachio and fennel seeds
Chocolate and hazelnut cake with espresso ganache
Soft-centred chocolate budini with milk ice-cream
White peaches with rosewater, honey and fromage blanc
Passionfruit and elderflower pavlova
Panna cotta with blood orange and juniper syrup
Strawberry, cherry and raspberry salad with raspberry sorbet
Curtis Stone’s dark chocolate and strawberry tart
Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache
Chocolate, pistachio and orange-blossom truffles
Dutch waffle ice-cream sandwiches with crushed raspberries
Chocolate marquise with lime and coconut sorbet
Stephanie Alexander’s raspberry and rose-geranium sorbet with honey wafers, raspberries and cream