Vegan valentines recipes help us celebrate Valentines Day with the gift of food. Favorite sweets for everyone, with some savory meal options too.
recipe collection originally published February 9, 2013
Recipes for all Valentines Day celebrations
These vegan valentines recipes are not just limited to a significant other. Friends, coworkers, friends children - any and all benefit from my propensity to create pink treats!
For me, Valentines food tends to lean toward chocolate. Sweets and desserts are the first thing I think of before my menu expands to include savory vegan Valentines recipes and an entire meal planned.
After more than a decade of recipe creation, many of the recipes here have played a starring role in our own Valentines celebrations, and I happily share them with you!
Savory Valentines recipes
If you are planning to create an entire Valentines meal (and like to skip the holiday restaurant thing like we do), we have a few savory recipes that really fancy up a menu. Brunch, lunch, and dinner - these recipes pair nicely with a bottle of wine and any of the desserts below!
- Avocado Florentine - Another delicious recipe for the weekend brunch schedule - the several easy steps to assemble this dish are so worth the time! You'll want this again and again.
- Shiitake Cauliflower Risotto - This impressive and flavorful comfort food recipe is a must make! Savory sautéed shiitakes top this vegetable forward favorite.
- Green Goddess Salad - Brimming with freshness and bright, herby flavors, this is a deliciously vibrant salad. It stays crunchy and flavorful for several days in the fridge.
- Buffalo Jackfruit Enchiladas - A comfort food winner that is less fancy, easy to make, but no less impressive! Flavorful and satisfying, enchiladas may just be your new favorite Valentines dinner in...
- Amaranth Stuffed Squash - The layers of flavor in this acorn squash are incredible, and make an impression for sure. If you are looking for a beautifully presented comfort food, this is it.
Date night ideas
If you are like us, you'd rather not go to a restaurant on Valentines Day. Been there, done that - and it is often an unremarkable experience in an overly crowded space. We love to go out, so we schedule that as a post Valentines night out, often a couple of weekends later, so we miss all the Valentines promotional menus and crowds.
Finding unconventional ways to celebrate Valentines day is more our speed. You know, like having a secret wedding ceremony in a private karaoke room 8 months before our big wedding.
Here are some date night ideas to jump start your own Valentines planning, or plans for any date night out. Use one or several to plan a date to remember.
- Cook together. Make a fancy and fun dinner at home. Make each of your favorite dishes or try something new. Use these super fun foodie dice to help you decide the menu!
- Enroll in a cooking class. Instead of making dinner at home, take a cooking class together. Learn to roll sushi, bake pastries, or throw pizza dough! We have taken many classes over the years and always have fun.
- Visit a bookstore. Each of you choose a favorite book for the other to read - book recommendations tell you a lot about a person. Grab a coffee and stroll through the books for an afternoon. This date can also happen at a library - check out books for each other.
- Enjoy a happy hour at home! Trade your glass of wine for a new cocktail, and shake things up with mixology dice, another fun prompt set.
- Wine tasting. Instead of being your own mixologist, enjoy a flavorful flight at a local vineyard. Schedule a tour if those are available, and take a couple of your favorite bottles home to enjoy later.
- Sign up for a dance class. Learning a new skill together is always fun, and as a bonus, you might gain some impressive dance floor moves to use in the future.
- Thrift store shopping. Do something silly and SO fun like choosing outfits for each other. Change into these outfits and go out in them. Bonus points for formal wear.
- Driving range or a round of golf. Hit a bucket of balls or rent a cart and zoom around for 9 holes.
- Stroll a farmers market. Shop local and support farmers. For Valentines, this might be early in the season, but save this idea for spring and summer dates on weekend mornings or a weekday afternoon. Search the markets in your area and choose a new one each week. (Here in Portland, at least one of our markets are already open for the season by Valentines day - so yours might be too.
- Have a spa night. This one works with your valentine OR a galentines friends date! Give each other facials using fun masks and pedicures finishing with bright nail colors.
- Bowling. As a couple or as a group date with friends, bowling is always a good time.
- Trivia night. Find a local bar or restaurant that holds trivia nights. Join as a team of two or assemble a team with friends. Make it a regular thing.
- BINGO night! Same as trivia - BINGO can be so fun. Grab a different color dauber for each person and play several cards at once to increase your odds.
- Make some art! Have one of those paint and pinot events, but at home. These art dice can nudge your creativity and provide some fun ideas to paint or draw.
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Valentines Recipes
From celebratory and cozy entrees to richly flavored sweets, we have a great list of tasty ideas for your Valentine.
The easiest dessert that looks impressive! Roll, dip into melty chocolate, then top with raspberry dust and let set - voila! a perfect box of chocolates.
This luxuriously rich stack is THE PERFECT Valentines breakfast or brunch on the nearest weekend.
Deliciously rich, this pie combines the classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter for an easy recipe with a short ingredient list.
A rich brownie base elevates the classic New York style cheesecake! another gloriously fancy treat that is easy to make!
This skillet cookie brings all the nostalgia of a giant cookie at the mall. Add scoops of ice cream and dig in!
Gluten free and vegan, but you wouldn't guess it! Perfectly soft cookies with tangy cream cheese and bright raspberry flavor make the best cookie!
These bourbon balls are a rich and impressive, party ready dessert.
A rich comfort food breakfast. A tasty option for brunch, holidays, Valentines, and a random Tuesday.
A stunning dessert with a bright flavor profile, this colorful sweet is a great option in place of chocolate.
FOUR INGREDIENTS. that is all you need to create this Royal favorite. a tiny slice is all you need, this is like a rich chocolate truffle in cake form!
Sweet pale pink rosewater icing completes these fluffy baked saffron doughnuts! make a batch for your favorite friends or coworkers.
For Valentines, Easter, Springtime and Summer - this colorful sweet fruity treat is for any time of year!
These no bake crispy chocolate peanut butter balls are our version of a dairy free, gluten free Butterfinger bar meets Scotcheroo.
This is the FUN cocktail at the party! Easy DIY shot glasses, dipped in a graham cracker crumb and filled with a s'mores shot!
These cookie bars bring that classic tangy cinnamon cookie to a rich vanilla blondie. This is a quick and easy, one bowl recipe.
This quick and easy recipe will be your go to favorite - deliciously fudgy and perfectly chewy. The healthy ingredient list and natural sweeteners make this an anti inflammatory brownie.
A luxuriously rich chocolate dessert with only four ingredients? Yes, please - for date night, girls night, a Tuesday...
Caramelized almond rocky road bark is dark chocolate bark with sweet, salty, gooey, and crunchy flavors and textures. Perfect dessert for holiday entertaining and gifting!
Bright lemon and sweet strawberry bring great flavor to a classic rice crispie - perfectly pink for Valentines or any day!
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Jeremy says
I really appreciate the combination of beautiful shapes with delicious taste. Looking at the pictures what immediately came to my mind is the gift I'm gonna give to my girlfriend on Valentine's Day. I've made a private booking for one of the courses organized by Zac’s cooking school here in Vancouver - cooking classes for couples and your recipes will most certainly be among the first ones we'll try together. 🙂
Kristina Sloggett says
sounds like fun - I love cooking classes - have a great time!
Laura (Tutti Dolci) says
Oh those raspberry lemon cheesecake cookies are leaping out at me, love!
Kristina Sloggett says
several people have already made them and LOVE them! they went fast around here 😉
Richa says
you are unstoppable.. that is a a lot of things i have got to try! those mint truffles, baileys shake, cheesecake bars.. you should do a round up of super easy things that guys can whip up so i can pass it along to hubbs with requests 😉
Kristina Sloggett says
now THAT is a great idea... I will have to remember about that next time!
Jenn@slim-shoppin says
Love all those dishes! So pretty.
Have a great day!
Kristina Sloggett says
thank you Jenn! xo
Heather (Where's the Beach) says
I've not ever really been a fan of V-Day, but you sort of make me want to love it. I think it's because of how much you love and give. Hugs sweetie!
Kristina Sloggett says
awww. YAY! 😉 Valentines is my favorite holiday, and Jason likes it too, so that's a bonus.
jobo says
Not only are these perfect for v-day, they are perfect for PMS!! I want to dive into every single picture!!
Kristina Sloggett says
hee hee - absolutely!
katie says
I would want a sample of EACH for Valentine's Day! All look amazing!
Hope you are well and thinking of your dad girl <3 Sending love and prayers <3
Kristina Sloggett says
thank you. all I can say is thank you - you have been such a support to me this entire time, and I hope you know how much I appreciate it. you have brought me smiles, strength, and hope when I have needed it most. I am so grateful to call you a friend. <3
christina says
everything is so pretty!!! want those pistachio truffles!