The upcoming two weeks of love are all about gift-giving, sharing your passion with your significant other and making thoughtful gestures for them. Cooking is a great way to let your loved one know how much they mean to you. You will easily find a variety of dessert options starting from cakes, and pastries to chocolates all over the market. But making something from scratch makes the present more valuable and special. Read on to learn easy dessert recipes for your Valentine.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Ingredients:
- 10 Whole Fresh Strawberries
- 2 Chocolate Bars
- Unsalted Butter
How To Make:
- Step 1: Wash 10 strawberries and make sure they are fresh.
- Step 2: Take a bowl and break the two chocolate bars and put the pieces in the bowl, it can either be dark or milk chocolate.
- Step 3: Add two tablespoons of unsalted butter to the chocolate pieces and melt the chocolate in the microwave. If you do not have a microwave you can melt the chocolate by using a double boiler method.
- Step 4: Put out a tray with parchment paper on it. Dip the fresh strawberries into the melted chocolate and put it on the tray.
- Step 5: Freeze the strawberries till the chocolate outside has hardened. Voila! Your chocolate-covered strawberries are ready.
Cake Pop Truffles
These cake pops are not only easy to make but are also a great gift that can be added to a customised bouquet of flowers for your valentine.
Ingredients:
- 1 Packet Cake Mix
- 1 Packet Brownie Mix
- 8 Eggs
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Cup Vegetable Oil
- 2 White Chocolate Bars
- Unsalted Butter
How To Make:
- Step 1: Add all the ingredients mentioned above except the butter and the white chocolate into a bowl.
- Step 2: Mix everything together with a whisk and mix until it forms a velvet smooth batter.
- Step 3: Pour the batter into cupcake moulds and bake for fifteen minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Step 4: After the cupcakes have been baked, make small balls from those cupcakes.
- Step 5: Break the white chocolate bars into a bowl. Add two tablespoons of unsalted butter to the chocolate pieces and melt the chocolate in the microwave or using a double boiler method.
- Step 6: Dip the cake pieces into the melted white chocolate and freeze the cake pops until the chocolate outside has hardened.
If you want to make a customised bouquet with these cake pops then add long toothpicks to each cake pop and use the toothpick to attach the cake pops to the bouquet.
