They don't say love goes through the stomach for nothing. If you lack creativity, ideas or money (or all three), we have prepared a bunch of simple recipes with which you will charm your better half for Valentine's Day, even if you don't find yourself in the kitchen.
Valentine's it is the time of roses, hearts, romantic verses, the color red and desserts. That's why we have prepared for you simple and quick recipes for sweet treats, which your soulmate will remember this Valentine's Day forever.
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Love it is especially sweet for Valentine's Day, and it will be even sweeter if you try one of the recipes below. Surprise your better half with sweet temptation, after which she will lick her fingers.
Recipe for Valentine's Day - Raphael balls
Ingredients - rafaelo balls:
- 2 dcl of water
- 250 g of butter
- 200 g of coconut flour
- 300 g of powdered sugar
- 400 g of milk powder
- 100 g of hazelnuts/almonds
The process of making rafaelo balls:
Put butter, powdered sugar and water in a pot. You boil everything and then set it aside. Mix 100 g of coconut flour and all the milk powder. Mix the mass well and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then you form balls from it and insert a hazelnut or almond in their center. At the end, you just roll the balls in the remaining coconut flour. Have a good run!
Recipe for Valentine's Day - chocolate fondue:
Ingredients - chocolate fondue:
- 500 grams of fine edible chocolate
- 200 ml of sweet cream
- different types of fruit (bananas, strawberries, pears, dried apricots, figs, kiwi, pineapple, prunes, etc.)
- chopped hazelnuts (optional)
Chocolate fondue preparation process:
Cut the fruit, and break the chocolate into cubes or grate it. Slowly melt it in a fondue bowl and pour in the sweet cream while stirring constantly, until a smooth liquid mixture is formed. Make sure the chocolate doesn't burn. Then place the pan on the burner. With fondue skewers, pieces of fruit are dipped in melted fine Gorenjka dining chocolate and then rolled in hazelnuts if desired.
Recipes for Valentine's Day - no-bake chocolate pralines:
Ingredients - no-bake chocolate pralines:
- 50 g of butter
- 150 g of grated chocolate (+ a few pieces)
- 1 bag of chocolate pudding
- rum essence
- 20 g of chocolate
- chocolate chips/cocoa
The process of preparing simple chocolate pralines without baking:
First, let's melt the butter. Then stir in grated chocolate, rum essence and pudding powder. Mix until a homogeneous mixture is formed, add a few small pieces of chocolate and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then form balls from the mixture, which are then rolled in crumbs or cocoa. We serve them in paper baskets, but before that we put them in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. Have a good run!
Recipes for Valentine's Day - dessert made from baby cookies and strawberries:
Ingredients - dessert made from baby cookies and strawberries:
- 10-15 berries
- 12 baby cookies
- a little milk
- sweet cream (optional)
The process of preparing a quick dessert made of baby cookies and strawberries:
Sprinkle the baby biscuits with a little milk (not too much and not too little) and fold them into two 'levels'. Mash the strawberries with a mixer and use them for the dressing. And that's all art! If you want, you can put the dessert in the refrigerator for a while and serve it with sweet cream. Have a good run!
Recipes for Valentine's Day - Cannoli Oreo:
Ingredients - Cannoli Oreo:
- Oreo cookies
- 700 grams of powdered sugar
- 170 grams of flour
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon of vinegar
- vanilla extract
The procedure for making cannoli oreos:
Next, separate the filling from the cookies with a knife and put the cookies in a blender. Mix until a fine powder is formed. Shake in a bowl and add flour and a spoonful of vegetable oil. Mix it up. Stir in the egg, add a good deciliter of water, a tablespoon of vinegar, knead the mass and form a lump from it (if the mass is too wet, add a little more flour, if it is too dry, add a little more water). Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Put powdered sugar in a bowl, add half a teaspoon of vanilla extract, a good deciliter of warm water, 75 grams of vegetable fat and mix well to get a homogeneous mixture. Transfer to a cake decorating bag (it can also be improvised) and refrigerate briefly. Meanwhile, on a floured surface, roll out the Oreo cookie mass and cut circles out of it (see video) and roll them into a pancake using a rolling pin. Fry for 2 minutes in oil heated to 360 degrees Celsius. When the 'pancake' has cooled, insert the filling. For decoration, you can crumble the cookies and sprinkle the cannoli with the crumbs. Have a good run!
Recipes for Valentine's Day - tiramisu without eggs:
Ingredients - tiramisu without eggs:
- 2 dcl of sweet cream
- 200 g cream cheese (mascarpone)
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
- baby cookies
- coffee
- cocoa
- rum
- butter (optional)
The process of making tiramisu without eggs:
Mix sugar, sweet cream and cream cheese together to get a creamy mass. Then dip the baby biscuits in the coffee mixture with a few drops of rum and line the bottom of the baking pan with butter (it can be replaced with aluminum foil, which is folded over the edge). We apply a layer of cream on top of the layer of baby biscuits and then alternately apply biscuits and cream, which we also finish with when we reach the required height. Let's put it in the cold so that the mass hardens. Finally, sprinkle the tiramisu with cocoa. Have a good run!
Recipe for Valentine's Day - biscuit with jam:
Ingredients - biscuit with jam:
- 4 eggs
- 6-8 tablespoons of sugar
- 8 tablespoons of flour
- 1 vanilla sugar
- 1 baking powder
- 4 tablespoons of oil
- 4 tablespoons of jam
- 1 tablespoon rum (optional)
- coconut flour
The process of making sponge cake with jam:
Beat the egg whites until stiff, and in another bowl, mix the egg yolks with vanilla sugar, sugar and rum until foamy. Gradually add flour and baking powder to the mass and finally mix in the snow. Pour everything into a greased baking pan and approx. Bake for 20 minutes in an oven heated to 200 degrees Celsius. Wait for the biscuit to cool slightly, then coat it with melted jam and sprinkle with coconut flour. Cut into cubes and serve. Have a good run!
Recipes for Valentine's Day - Oreo Popcorn:
Ingredients - Oreo Popcorn:
- popcorn
- 15 Oreo cookies
- white chocolate tears
- pinch of salt
The process of making Oreo popcorn:
Grind the Oreo cookies in a food processor to form crumbs. Save some for later and pour the melted white chocolate over the rest. Pour the mixture over the ready-made popcorn, which you have arranged on the baking sheet, add a pinch of salt, mix and, while they are still moist, sprinkle with the rest of the cookie crumbs. Wait 15 minutes for the mass to harden, break and serve. Have a good run!
Recipes for Valentine's Day - fluffy meringue cookies:
Ingredients - fluffy meringue cookies:
- 2 egg whites
- 100 g of powdered sugar
- teaspoon of tartaric acid (optional)
The process of making fluffy meringue cookies:
Place the egg whites in a bowl and add 3 teaspoons of sugar and tartar (the latter will make the mass firmer and smoother). Start mixing with a hand mixer, first slowly, then increase the speed. Gradually add sugar while mixing. We beat until we get firm snow. We put it in a piping bag and use it to spray heaps on the baking paper that we lined the baking sheet with. Place this in the oven, heated to 100 degrees Celsius, and bake the egg white snow for 45 minutes. After three quarters of an hour, turn off the oven and let it stand for another hour. After this time, take the cookies out of the oven and let them cool. The dessert is ready. Have a good run! If desired, you can enrich the snow with additives such as ground hazelnuts or flavoring such as vanilla.
Recipes for Valentine's Day - Pudding with Nutella:
Ingredients - pudding with Nutella:
- 500 ml of milk
- 1 bag of vanilla pudding powder
- 2-3 tablespoons of sugar
- 4 tablespoons of Nutella
The process of making pudding with Nutella:
First, boil the milk. In the meantime, mix the powder, sugar and seven tablespoons of cold milk in a bowl. When the milk boils, gradually pour the mixture into it. We wait for it to boil again and the mass thickens. Let's put it aside. While cooling, stir the pudding well every five minutes to prevent lumps from forming. Put Nutella in a cup and pour the pudding over it. If desired, serve with sweet cream. And happy sweetening!