SHOW YOUR LOVE WITH CAKES, COOKIES, CHOCOLATES, & MORE DECADENT DESSERTS
No Valentine’s Day is complete without a sweet treat to share with your loved one. Whether it’s indulging in a box of gourmet chocolates, snacking on fresh-baked cookies, or slicing into a decadent layer cake, dessert is an absolute must-have on Valentine’s Day, more so than just about any other day of the year. And thanks to Goldbelly, the best Valentine’s Day desserts in America are shipping straight from the country’s top bakeries and food makers to your door.
Sure, you could always pick up a cheap box of chocolates from the pharmacy or a cake from the grocery store, but that’s the equivalent of buying flowers from the corner deli instead of a renowned flower shop. One shows that you really care and are willing to go the extra mile, and the other… well, not so much. There are so many Valentine’s Day dessert ideas shipping on Goldbelly, but these are worthy of a little extra love.
Valentine’s Day Cakes
Goddess & Grocer’s Valentine’s Day Chocolate Strawberry Cake
Debbie Sharpe (the “goddess”) spent years catering for the music world’s biggest stats before opening The Goddess & Grocer in Chicago in 2004. It’s one of the city’s most popular Australian-style bakery-cafes, and her Valentine’s Day Chocolate Strawberry Cake is a dark chocolate cake with whipped strawberry buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream icing. It’s decorated with cookies!
Lady M Confections’ Chocolate Mille Crepes Cake
Founded in 2001 in New York and helmed by Ken Romaniszyn, Lady M combines French techniques with Japanese sensibilities. A chocolate version of Lady M’s Signature Mille Crêpes, this chocolate Japanese cake has no less than 20 paper-thin chocolate crêpes, each one rich with cocoa and outfitted with lacy edges. Each crêpe is layered with chocolate pastry cream and finished with giant chocolate curls.
Martha Stewart’s Strawberry Ombre Cake
From none other than Martha Stewart herself, This stunning pink cake is ombre on the inside, with shades of pink vanilla sponge cake alternating with layers of strawberry Swiss buttercream.
We Take the Cake’s Floral Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cake
We Take The Cake has become one of the most sought after, made-from-scratch bakeries in the US. They take pride in mixing the batters and frosting from scratch, using whole milk, fresh eggs and real butter, NEVER a cake mix or commercially made frostings. Their popular Floral Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cake is baked in a heart-shaped liner. The moist chocolate cake is frosted with a delicate blush pink tint, while cascading buttercream flowers in classic Valentine colors adorn the heart.
Montilio’s Baking Company’s JFK’s Wedding Cake
It’s not every day that you have the opportunity to try the same exact cake served at the wedding of JFK and Jackie! Since 1947, Montilio’s Baking Company has been baking up some of the Boston area’s most beloved cakes. And yes, President John F. Kennedy and Jackie enjoyed this cake as their wedding cake and then again at JFK’s Inaugural Ball in 1961!
Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush also opted to serve this cake at their Inaugural Balls. It’s made with three layers of white cake interspersed with raspberry preserves and raspberry frosting, and it’s topped with sweet vanilla buttercream.
East Side Cheesecakes’ Red Velvet Valentine Cheesecake
East Side Cheesecakes is a love story between Julia Tokarz and Gregory Lay, who met in New York City in 2014. After moving to LA, Greg became head baker at a now-famous bagel shop and Julia took on catering jobs, and when the Covid pandemic hit they combined the fresh cream cheese that Greg had been making at the bagel shop with Julia’s mom’s Christmas cheesecake recipe, and East Side Cheesecakes was born.
This red velvet Valentine cheesecake features a full one-pound rich red velvet cookie as the crust, a sinfully rich red velvet cheesecake, and is topped with a creamy smooth cream cheese topping and finally finished with baby red velvet cookies.
Junior’s White Chocolate Strawberry Heart Cheesecake
Founded by Harry Rosen in 1950 and legendary today, Junior’s is a Brooklyn landmark and one of New York’s best Jewish delis. But it’s most famous for its cheesecake, and this special Valentine’s Day White Chocolate Strawberry Heart Cheesecake really goes above and beyond. Their original New York cheesecake is blended with premium white chocolate and swirled with fresh strawberry puree, hand-finished with a border of homemade white chocolate mousse, and decorated with red chocolate shavings.
Valentine’s Day Cookies
Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate’s Valentine’s Day Macarons
Since 2016, Michelin-starred chef Gabriel Kreuther and acclaimed pastry chef and Master Chocolatier Marc Aumont have been taking the art of chocolate to the next level with New York’s Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate.
To make these Valentine’s Day macarons, airy almond shells are handcrafted in small batches to recreate classic French technique and filled with creamy modern flavors for a taste of New York. This 12 piece assortment, curated for Valentine’s Day, pairs original cheesecake and mixed berry macarons, the perfect combination of tart and sweet!
Jake Cohen’s Mini Pink & White Cookies
Jake Cohen is one of the food world’s brightest stars: he has worked in some of NYC’s best restaurants and test kitchens, has amassed a massive following on Instagram and TikTok, and received accolades such as making the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Food & Drink. These Mini Pink & White Cookies (a take on NYC’s famous black & white cookies) are sweet and cakey, and topped with colorful sprinkles.
Big Fat Cookie’s Valentine’s Day Giant Cookies
When we say these cookies are giant, we mean it — each one is six ounces, just shy of half a pound! These cookies are crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, and are meant for sharing. This Valentine’s Day Giant Cookie Pack features 4 different cookies that will put any box of chocolates to shame, in flavors including Red Velvet Love, Triple Chocolate Caramel Fudge, Brown Butter Valentine, and Oreo & Fudge.
Daniel Boulud’s Bake-at-Home Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
Daniel Boulud is considered one of America’s leading culinary authorities and one of the most revered chefs in New York, his home since 1982. He is Chef-Owner of 12 restaurants around the world, and is best known for his eponymous, exquisitely refined DANIEL on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. This Bake at Home Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookie Kit yields 20 cookies and includes brown sugar cookie dough, a heart shaped cookie cutter, and royal icing in a variety of pastel colors to decorate at home.
Other Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats
El Bolillo Bakery’s Heart Concha Sweet Bread
El Bolillo Bakery was founded as a small Mexican panadería in 1998 in Houston’s Greater Heights neighborhood, and today it’s renowned as one of America’s top Mexican bakeries, and is an active member and cornerstone of Houston’s thriving Hispanic community.
Their signature conchas are sweet & fluffy buns with a crunchy cookie top, and these pink and red Valentine’s Day heart-shaped conchas are the perfect accompaniment to coffee or hot chocolate.
Breads Bakery’s Rugelach & Roselach
Breads Bakery is one of New York’s most popular and beloved bakeries, best known for traditional Jewish pastries like babka and rugelach, crescents of sweet, dense laminated dough with a variety of fillings. This special two-pack Rugelach & Roselach includes their traditional rugelach (filled with chocolate and Nutella) as well as their red “Roselach,” flavored with marzipan and rosewater.
Caroline’s Cakes Valentine’s Day Cake Bites
When Caroline Ragsdale Reutter served a Southern style 7-layer caramel cake made from an old family recipe at her son’s christening in 1982, little did she know she would soon find herself taking cake orders from as far away as Alaska.
Caroline’s Cakes has become renowned for its traditional Southern cakes, as well as their Cake Bites. This Valentine’s Day Cake Bite Collection includes 10 Chocolate Raspberry Hearts, 10 Pink Champagne, and 10 Strawberry Cream Hearts.
Shortbread Society’s Valentine’s Day Raspberry Truffle Shortbread
You’ve never had shortbread like this! Chef “Scottish Francis” Legge (who starred on season 5 of “Masterchef”) and his wife Christine craft decadent and delicious shortbread creations. Francis has roots in shortbread’s ancestral homeland of Scotland (as his name might imply), and he’s brought over his Granny Pearl’s treasured shortbread recipes and given them a decidedly NYC twist.
Their Valentine’s Day Raspberry Truffle Shortbread starts with a rich dark chocolate shortbread with raspberry cream, finished with a layer of dark chocolate and raspberry swirl.
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