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Happy Valentine’s Day. Have a perfect day with your sweetheart while enjoying these delicious romantic treats.

A Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Cocktail and Heart-Shaped Meringues Filled with Passion Fruit Curd are the perfect combination for a romantic Valentine’s Day sweet treat!

Enjoy your day!

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Valentine’s Day is all about sharing your love, your heart and some scrumptious mouthwatering treats. Martha Stewart has some yummy heart desserts that you and your sweetie just will not be able to resist. So here’s the plan: Set aside some time in schedule today or tomorrow and bake up some of these goodies. Let the children help as well and turn it into a fun DIY project. Place the heart cookies in decorative packaging and hand them out on Valentine’s Day.

Here’s the hearts that we have (top clockwise):

Pillowy Meringue Hearts:  Brown-sugar meringue cookies that are guaranteed to please. Easy to make just use heart-shape cutters to provide adoring curves.

Chocolate and Raspberry Heart Napoleons: These chocolate hearts are layered with raspberry semifreddo (“half cold” in Italian), a frozen dessert similar to ice cream. YUM-O.

Conversation Heart Cookies: What a delish and pretty way to give messages from your heart to your sweetheart.

Sacher Torte Heart: Give a twist to the Valentine’s Day chocolate sampler, and enjoy this heart instead. You can also make a smaller size with is ideal for sharing with your sweetheart.

Enjoy and  Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Valentine’s Day is right around corner so celebrate in style with your sweetheart or at your Valentine’s Day party by enjoying some delicious sweets and treats from Williams-Sonoma. I mean, who could possibly not be overjoyed and filled with delight to receive one of these scrumptious treats on Valentine’s Day. Talk about satisfying a sweet tooth!

So these are the sweet treats that we found (clockwise):

Heart Macarons – An irresistible Valentine treat. With an engaging heart shape, this treat is crisp on the outside, moist and chewy inside. Each pair of chocolaty red-velvet macarons is enhanced by a luscious ganache filling that combines white chocolate with heavy cream and fresh buttermilk for a hint of tangy richness.

Sweetie Pies for your Sweetie -  Pure edible nostalgia, the heart-shaped treats recall the whoopie pies beloved by kids but with a decidedly sophisticated twist.

Perfect Ending’s Heart Red Velvet Cake – With a melt-in-your-mouth texture, this vintage cake makes a grand finale for Valentine’s Day celebrations. The heart-shaped version of the classic cake combines two luscious layers of rich, fudgy devil’s food cake with fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting, this one will be hard to resist.

Message Heart Cookies – What a cute and delish way to express your love for your sweetheart! Each crisp heart-shaped chocolate sugar cookie is topped with royal icing and inscribed with a heartfelt message, awe…

Valentine’s Heart Petit Fours - These will be perfect for your Valentine’s Day party. They are delightful with dessert wines and after-dinner coffee. Each petits fours is topped with delicate marzipan hearts.

Valentine’s Day Mini Cupcakes – Send me a box of these! Surprise and delight your valentine with a heart-shaped red box filled with luscious little cupcakes that are as sweet as can be! Each box includes 12 devil’s food cupcakes: six topped with chocolate-caramel cream and milk chocolate jimmies and six topped with chocolate truffle cream and dark chocolate jimmies.

Personalized Chocolate Heart – Melt your sweetie’s heart with a stunning chocolate valentine cake! How cute is this?

Enjoy!

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If it’s chocolate it has to be good… So if you love chocolate as much as I do, I know that you are absolutely  SWOONING over this yummy display of chocolate. When I found these over at Bon Appétit I had a great idea,  instead of heading out the the store this year and buying your sweetie a box of chocolate for Valentine’s Day, think out the box and cook up one of these mouthwatering chocolate treats instead. I mean seriously, which do you think you will get more sweet kisses for: homemade chocolate goodies or store brought candy? Okay, so what is the swooning all about? Read the rest of this entry »