Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to get a little sappy and a lot sweet, especially when it comes to dessert. Whether you’re a baking novice or a seasoned pro, we’ve got 30 cake recipes that are guaranteed to impress your special someone (or just treat yourself, because why not?). These show-stoppers will make hearts flutter and taste buds sing.
Dreamy White Forest Cake
This white forest cake is a completely dreamy dessert, with a light white sponge cake, sweet cherry filling, and cream cheese frosting.
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Strawberry Yogurt Chocolate Chip Snack Cake
This strawberry yogurt chocolate chip cake is the perfect easy Valentine’s Day dessert. Made with healthier flours, you and your special someone can eat this all day long!
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Chocolate Cheesecake
Chocolate cheesecake is a rich, decadent dessert made for chocolate lovers. The Oreo crust and chocolate ganache topping is simply divine.
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Strawberry Cake
This luscious vegan strawberry cake is rich, moist and perfectly sweet. Layered with a strawberry preserve-infused dairy-free buttercream frosting and topped with juicy, fresh strawberries, this gluten-free cake is perfect for any occasion.
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Vanilla Rose Layer Cake
Fall in love with this oh-so romantic and effortlessly gorgeous Vanilla Rose Layer Cake! A sweet and simple six inch vanilla cake that’s made with pantry staples, plus one secret ingredient…a splash of rose water!
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Mini Chocolate Cake For Two With Mascarpone Cream
This Mini Chocolate Cake For Two With Mascarpone Cream makes a perfect little dessert for a date night or when you want to indulge in a fancy treat but no willing to spend hours in the kitchen. This cute dessert is easy to make and so incredibly delicious!
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Cherry and Rum Cake
What a cute, easy, fast, interesting grownup dessert, everyone will love this mini honey and cherry rum cake.
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Strawberry Flan
What’s better than enjoying a bite of luscious and fruity strawberry flan? A flan recipe is easy and inexpensive to make. Although, when finished, it looks like it just came out of the window of a Parisian patisserie.
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Mini Strawberry Bundt Cakes
These mini strawberry Bundt cakes are so cute! Imagine a light and sweet strawberry cake made with jello. Not only do these look pretty, but they taste really amazing.
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Date Cake with Rum Toffee Sauce
Also known as Sticky Date Pudding, this date cake is moist and comforting with notes of caramel and raisin. An easy homemade rum sticky toffee sauce ties the cake together and brings you back for more!
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Strawberry Crunch Cheesecake
This No Bake Strawberry Crunch Cheesecake is layers of strawberry and vanilla bean cheesecake in a graham cracker crust, topped with strawberry crunch topping! Completely no bake and delicious, you’ll want this beauty on repeat in your kitchen!
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Red Velvet Bundt Cake
With its unique flavor and color, this old-fashioned red velvet cake is soft, moist, and utterly delicious! It comes together quickly and can be frozen. Spread it with cream cheese frosting for a luscious finish, just in time for a special celebration.
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Garden Party Rose Buttercream Cake
Perfectly fluffy chocolate cake layers paired with fresh strawberries and rose infused Swiss meringue buttercream make this rose buttercream cake.
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Raspberry Cheesecake
The Raspberriest Raspberry Cheesecake recipe on the planet is right here. Creamy smooth and infused with pureed raspberries this queen of cheesecakes has a crown of fresh raspberries and a buttery graham cracker crust.
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Strawberry Crunch Cake
This Strawberry Crunch Cake is a party! Sweet, fluffy strawberry cake topped with creamy vanilla buttercream and a strawberry crunch topping that adds the best texture and flavor.
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Strawberry Shortcut Cake
This strawberry shortcut cake topped with fresh strawberries and whipped cream frosting is an easy dessert that can be made in no time. The sweet strawberry filling is what makes this shortcut cake so moist and a must try!
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Chocolate Ricotta Cheesecake
This cheesecake is super creamy and moist, with a deep chocolate flavor. It’s spongier than your normal cheesecake due to the ricotta, and it has a special, different and amazing flavor!
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No-Bake Red Velvet Cheesecake
This creamy and luscious Red Velvet Cheesecake is a no-bake recipe -which means no oven and no water bath- with a crunchy chocolate cookie crust and whipped cream to top.
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Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake
This easy chocolate fudge cake is the perfect dessert to satisfy your chocolate craving – it’s rich, moist, and absolutely delicious!
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Dulce de Leche Lava Cake
Get ready for an absolutely incredible, decadent, and delicious individual sized chocolate and dulce de leche treat– this epic Dulce de Leche Lava Cake! A scrumptious chocolate and sweet caramel dulce de leche cake with a runny, creamy, chocolate caramel-like center that looks like it was crafted at a 5 star restaurant!
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Cottage Cheese Cheesecake
Cottage cheese cheesecake is your standard cream cheese cheesecake’s healthier cousin, but you wouldn’t know it if I didn’t tell you. Not only does this cottage cheese cake look great, it tastes fantastic, too, with lots of easy options to dress up with flavours.
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Strawberries and Cream Crepe Cake
Imagine biting into soft crepes layered with a fluffy cream cheese filling and fresh, sliced strawberries. Better yet, do it in real life in about an hour! That’s all the time it takes to whip up this delicious cake, and it’s much easier than it looks!
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Strawberry & Honey Valentine Cake
The cake is a honey cake and pistachio cake and lightly rose scented whipped cream clouds and fresh strawberries. Gold edible glitter and honey to jazz up the strawberries and make it more fun.
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Mini Chocolate Bundt Cake
This Mini Chocolate Bundt Cake is tender, moist, insanely delicious and has a Chambord-infused ganache!
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Raspberry White Chocolate Bundt Cake
This raspberry white chocolate bundt cake is gluten-free and dairy-free. It is filled with white chocolate chips, fresh raspberries, and raspberry jam swirled in the center. The white chocolate ganache on top adds the best flavor! It’s perfect for Valentine’s Day, too.
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Crepe Cake
Crepe Cake combines everything cherished about traditional crepes, transforming them into a distinctive and alluring dessert. Imagine layers of delicate crepes, each one spread with creamy whipped cream frosting, stacked high to create a visually striking centerpiece for your table.
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Champagne Cheesecake
Champagne Cheesecake is an easy, no-bake dessert combining the classic flavors of cheesecake and a glass of bubbly. These decadent little desserts are the perfect way to turn any ordinary dinner into a celebration of delicious proportions!
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Strawberry Jam Cake
Strawberry jam cake is sweet and fruity, with the prettiest shade of pink! Strawberry jam blended into the cake batter adds a deep strawberry flavor to the moist and tender cake, and a strawberry cream cheese frosting is the sweet and creamy finishing touch.
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Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Sheet Cake
This Valentine’s Day sheet cake with the colors of love is quick and easy yet looks amazing! If you’re bringing Valentine’s Day treats for the classroom or elsewhere, this portable cake is perfect as it can be cut into 12 to 20 slices.
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Mini Cherry Cheesecakes
Perfectly sized, perfectly sweet, perfectly decadent Mini Cherry Cheesecakes are the perfect after dinner dessert. These bite size desserts are easy to make ahead and freeze well.
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Gina Matsoukas is an AP syndicated writer. She is the founder, photographer and recipe developer of Running to the Kitchen — a food website focused on providing healthy, wholesome recipes using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets both digital and print, including MSN, Huffington post, Buzzfeed, Women’s Health and Food Network.
