Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and which things have changed us irreversibly as people. Most recently, we got crazy with oodles of noodles.
Oh is it almost VALENTINE’S DAY?? I hadn’t noticed. Certainly haven’t been pinning Valentine’s Day foods for the past month with Carmen, gearing up for this post. Definitely haven’t been planning a series of Valentine’s Day menus for my own personal use, categorized by cost and skill level. Nope. Haven’t been looking forward to this for several weeks at all. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
If you happen to be in the market for 45 Valentine’s Day foods — including a few throwbacks to some previous Autostraddle Valentine’s snacks and — look no further!  And don’t forget about our extremely thorough Gay Girl’s Valentine’s Day Gift Guide and the amazing Valentine’s Day Craft and Decor Grab Bag!
1. Strawberry Nutella Stacked French Toast
2. Heart Healthy Baked Donuts
3. Cupid’s Arrow Cupcakes with Printable Heart Arrows
4. Dipped and Decorated Pretzels
5. Easy Marshmallow Treats
6. Love Birds Cookies
LISTEN UP this isn’t a recipe — just some cookie decorating inspiration — but I couldn’t keep it from you because it’s so cute I almost hyperventilated.
7. Cutie Pie Pops
8. Cherry Garcia Cake
9. Red Velvet Cake Milkshake Shooters
10. Raspberry Cream Cheese Heart Tarts
11. Love Letter Cookies
12. Italian Cream Sodas
13. Valentine Pretzel Toffee
14. Strawberry Pudding Cookies
15. Heart Shaped Ice Cream Sandwiches
16. Pink Hot Chocolate
17. Linzer Cookies
18. Red Velvet Icebox Cakes
19. Mini Heart Shaped Cakes
20. Tiny Cookies on Cookie Cake Stands
Oh. my. tiny. god.
21. Laura’s Homemade Oreo Cookies
Y’all, this was our very first Get Baked ever! I could just cry.
22. Conversation Heart Sugar Cookies
23. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites
24. Oreo Cookie Mini Heart Pies
25. Fudgy Brownie Hearts With Fresh Raspberry Buttercream
26. Wine Gummies??!
27. Valentine’s Day Cocktail
28. White Chocolate Popcorn
29. Rosemary Beet Chips
30. Knock You Naked Brownies
31. Peach Rose Lemonade
32. Mini Cherry Pie Hearts
33. Spiced Poached Pears with Warm Chocolate Sauce
34. Yvonne’s Beet-ing Heart & Citrus Quinoa Salad
35. Blackberry Filled Chocolate Cupcake with Red Wine Frosting
36. Strawberry Mini Donuts
37. Triple Chocolate Brownies
I made those!
38. The Rose Noir Cocktail
39. Frozen Yogurt Bars with Strawberries and Pistachios
40. Little Heart Beets
41. White Chocolate Reese’s Krispie Hearts
42. Hummingbird Cafe’s Red Velvet Cake
There’s Rachel! Ugh don’t you guys just love Rachel? I do.
43. Abby’s Derby Pie with Bourbon Chantilly Cream
44. Easy Valentine’s Day Mini Cakes
45. Cupid Floats
Ugh, these are all so pretty and so cute! I feel like I need to play hooky and just bake things all day long.
chocolate cupcakes with red wine frosting?? I need them immediately
With blackberries!! I thought the same thing.
stef made them and they looked AMAZING. i think she said her cat ate a lot of the frosting too, so that’s probably an endorsement.
did her cat get drunk? is that how you get a cat drunk?
Nope, this is: http://kotaku.com/introducing-japanese-wine-for-uh-cats-1445498718
Those heart beets are the cutest.
laneia do you think i could make a heart shaped quesadilla
I am not laneia, but I have no doubt that you can make the quesadilla your heart desires.
YES PROBABLY I DON’T SEE WHY NOT !!!
my girlfriend’s birthday is on valentine’s day and so there is always double the celebratory pressure! and i have not even thought about food yet for this year! so this will def help my planning for birthentines day. but what i really need are these menu plans…any winning ideas for dinner? i guess we could just eat love birds cookies for dinner because what could be cuter?
i love you too laneia
if you need me i’ll just be over here whispering “wine gummies” to myself
I think I need to call in sick this week and find a chef who will want to make these with me.
Also, no valentines heart shaped pizza, sandwiches, or tacos?
These are so cute!
Oh, god, I’m so alone.
Ugh, these all look so amazing and make me depressed I don’t have a special someone to make them for/with !
I made that gin cocktail (#27) for my sweetie and am back to report that it is delicious!
Little Heart Beets so cute. I’ll be make it for my GF . haha
Thank for share !
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Thanks for this marvellous post.
Great post again. Thanks a lot!
You just made my day! Loooove these.
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