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Valentine's Day Recipes and Menus

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The most romantic day of the year deserves special recipes and menus. You'll find lots of delicious chocolate recipes, easy and elegant recipes for two, and variations on Valentine's Day dinner menus right here. Want to serve the best romantic recipes? Or make the most wonderful Valentine's chocolate recipes? Read on!

1. Valentine's Day Menus

Pecan Chicken Honey MustardPecan Chicken with Honey Mustard Sauce

This collection of eight menus focuses on easy and elegant recipes to feed you and your sweetie. Choose from a crockpot dinner menu, a make-ahead dinner menu, or an inexpensive Valentine's Day celebration.

2. Best White Chocolate Recipes for Valentine's Day

White Chocolate WedgesWhite Chocolate Wedges
White chocolate is exotic, gorgeous, and delicious, and perfect in these quick and easy recipes. Why not stray from the dark chocolate temptation and serve something a little different this Valentine's Day?

3. Top 10 Best Valentine's Day Recipes

Heart CakeHeart Cake

From Shrimp Scampi to the easiest and most fabulous truffles in the world, these recipes are the best to celebrate Valentine's Day. If you're celebrating with more than just your sweetie, make the Heart Cake! It's fun and beautiful and sets just the right mood for a party.

4. Top Ten Best Valentine's Chocolate Recipes

Best TrufflesBest Truffles

To most people, Valentine's Day means chocolate! These recipes all use chocolate in one form or another. The Truffles are spectacular, the Bonbons delightful, the Brownies decadent, and Easiest Fudge in the World is just that.

5. Quick Sweets

Easy But Fancy CookiesEasy But Fancy Cookies

If there's time to make dinner, there's time to make dessert! These quick and easy recipes will satisfy anyone's sweet tooth, and do it in just a few minutes. These recipes are all super quick and easy.

6. Easy Chocolate Desserts

Peanut Butter Chocolate DessertPeanut Butter Chocolate Dessert

Chocolate is delicious, nutritious, and fun to work with. These easy recipes will satisfy a chocolate craving and are perfect for Valentine's Day. Fudge, cakes, cookie bars, brownies, and fondue are quick, easy, and yummy.

7. Valentine's Weekend

Salmon with Blueberry Grape SaladSalmon with Blueberry Grape Salad

Hey, why should we limit Valentine's Day to just a day? It can be a weekend-long celebration, whether the day itself falls on a weekend or not. These menus and recipes are delicious, easy to make, and fun too. And many of the recipes offer a bonus - they're heart-healthy on the day we celebrate our hearts.

8. Top 10 Brownie Recipes

Cream Cheese Frosted BrowniesCream Cheese Frosted Brownies
Brownies are to Valentine's Day as cookies are to Christmas! These ten brownie recipes are sure elicit oohs and aahs from whomever is lucky enough to eat them.

9. My Favorite Chocolate Recipes

Brownie Fudge HeartsBrownie Fudge Hearts

These chocolate recipes are delicious, addictive, and very special. Every one of these treats is perfect for Valentine's Day. Enjoy.

10. Start With ... Chocolate Chips

Updated Chocolate Nut ToffeeUpdated Chocolate Nut Toffee

Chocolate chips, those little morsels of wonderfulness, are easy to turn into a spectacular dessert for Valentine's Day. These super easy recipes are quick to make and delicious.

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