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6 Min
10/02/2026
Beyond a romantic dinner for two or even a date at a fancy restaurant, Valentine’s Day also extends to your loved ones. For those who have been there for you, through thick and thin, bake a cake and share it with them. Show them how much you love them this chocolate day during Valentine’s week. It could be a bento cake, lava cake or something else entirely. Even if you are getting a cake from a bakery, spruce it up at home with a personal touch.
Chocolate day is the perfect occasion to test your baking skills! Employ the hand of a loved one if flying solo is not your thing, and make a cocoa-filled batter, ganache and more. Pick the same elements that are loved for Valentine’s day – chocolate, strawberries and hearts and get creative with the shapes, sizes and forms your cakes will take. A little effort for a day will go a long way to give you the perfect bonding time with your loved ones. Here are some options below that you can play around with; the sky is the limit!
You will need heart-shaped moulds to bake the lava cake. This is what will make them a little extra special; the rest of the recipe for the cake, mostly to underbake it for a molten centre, remains the same. These cakes will be the show-stopping individual desserts with trademark ‘lava’ centre and a crisp, cake-like exterior. Serve the lava cakes with a dusting of powdered sugar and fruits like sliced strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. You can introduce new elements by changing the centres, like going for fruit-infused centres like mixed jam alongside the classic chocolate for an extra surprise.
This one follows the same principle as the Italian lasagna, but with layers of cake sponges and cream – just like an English trifle. In this dessert, instead of pasta, thin strips of frozen pound cake serve as the ‘noodles’, which are alternated with raspberry (can be substituted with other fruits) purée, whipped cream, shredded coconut, and juicy blueberries. Because of its longer chill time, it needs to be made at least the previous day for the dessert to set into its striking layers. It’s a perfect oven-free dessert for Valentine’s week gatherings or sharing with loved ones.
If you want to get even more creative, try this spin on the classic Swiss roll that is made with a thin layer of sheet sponge cake rolled around strawberry cream. You can mix in bits of strawberry in the cream for fun pops of colour and flavour. The rolled cake is coated with a luxurious chocolate ganache and topped with roasted strawberries while still wet. You can take plenty of liberties here: the cake sponge can be vanilla or strawberry (made with fruit puree), or the cream could be chocolate, and the outside coating can be made with white chocolate and dotted with tiny candy hearts.
If you want to make a dessert that feels extra romantic, with minimal baking, pick a cheesecake. What makes it special for Valentine’s or Chocolate Day are the raspberry or strawberry sauce dots pulled into tiny hearts across the top. First, you need to make the base with crushed cookies and butter, which needs to be baked to set. Then make the cream cheese filling as usual, you can add food colouring to make it pink or red. If your cheesecake is going to be pink, then make sure to also change the colour of the fruit sauce used. Top with white chocolate hearts or frozen berries.
Upgrade the good old chocolate tart to a Valentine’s special dessert that can easily trump cake recipes. Just like the cheesecake, this recipe too needs a crust, or rather a tart shell, in which goes the rich chocolate filling that you can make with milk chocolate or dark chocolate. What makes it a little extra are the fresh strawberry pieces that are added just after the chocolate filling is set. Make sure to top the simple dessert with a chocolate glaze and perhaps some tiny candy hearts, for a professional touch.
Chocolate day is the perfect excuse to go beyond store-bought sweets and turn dessert into a shared experience. Whether you are baking from scratch, assembling a layered showstopper, or simply adding personal touches to a bakery cake, it’s the thought that counts.
