20+ Valentine's Day Dessert Recipes for Two (2024)

FAQs

How many desserts do you need for 20 people? ›

​So how many desserts do you really need? If you are offering a full size dessert like a cupcake or a full size brownie, count on 1-2 per guest. With smaller desserts like cookies, macarons, bite size brownies, or mini tarts you can count on each guest taking 3 items from the various options.

New York City restaurant Serendipity3 is selling the Diamond Frrrozen Hot Chocolate for $250 thousand this Valentine's Day. Price tag: (you guessed it) $250,000.

Valentine's Day sweets for your sweetie — Or yourself, because you deserve it! However, chocolate-dipped fruit or nuts is still a healthier alternative to chocolate alone. And dark chocolate with a high cocoa content would contain more antioxidants and less sugar than milk chocolate, for example.

We favor desserts made in individual portions, such as cookies and cupcakes, or ones that can be easily portioned out—think bar cookies, sheet cakes, and Bundts—so there is less to fuss over at the last minute. We have included a few easy treats, like fruit crisps, that you could scoop and serve at the party.

Choose the right size of cake: Generally, a 6" cake serves about 12 people, an 8" cake serves about 24 people, a 10" cake serves about 36 people, and a 12" cake serves about 50 people.

“Purple in Love” ($8.99) is the signature award-winning dessert here. Condensed milk coats a bowl carefully piled with crushed ice topped with grape syrup and evaporated milk for a light purple colour, mochi ice cream cut into pieces, rice cake, and grapes.

The dinner featuring foie gras, risotto, and carbineros prawns with saffron, among other dishes, tops out at £61,000 (close to $100,000). Luxury website VeryFirstTo.com collaborated with Michelin-starred chef Adam Simmonds on the extravagant 8-course feast to be prepared in the comforts of the diner's home.

Everybody Wants Chocolate

According to CandyStore.com, 37 out of 50 states in the U.S. prefer some kind of chocolate to any other sort of Valentine candy. Chocolate is the most popular candy for Valentine's Day for a reason.

Let's start with well-known and beloved non-chocolate candy items that you're sure to recognize, such as Skittles, Starbursts, Haribo Gold-Bears, Nerds, Airheads, Swedish Fish, Werther's Originals, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Sour Punch Straws, and Jolly Ranchers… to name a few.

Which gender gives chocolate on Valentine's day? ›

In some countries, Valentine's Day is a special day when lovers give gifts to each other, or men offer flowers and other presents to their sweetheart. In Japan, it is customary that women offer chocolates to men, who only receive the gifts.

This tradition began in 1958, when a Japanese chocolate company proclaimed Valentine's Day "a day for girls to give guys chocolate and tell them that they love them." Today, women often give chocolate not only to the object of their affection, but also to their boss and colleagues at work.

Wedding Cake: a classic choice, and must-have dessert at many weddings; you can choose from various flavors, fillings, and designs to match your wedding style and theme. Cupcakes: if you want a fun and trendy alternative to wedding cake, consider serving cupcakes.

We recommend 2-4 items per guest, but don't worry, we'll help make sure you have enough servings to go around! To create your own estimate, please look through all the options below.

For 20 adults you should order 8 large pizzas. This may seem like an arbitrary number, but there's actually a pizza ordering formula that can help you figure out the proper amount to order for any size group. When serving adults at a regular mealtime, go by what is known as the 3/8 pizza rule.

Rules to Plan By

Each adult will consume 1 pound of food total; children, about 1/2 pound. The more options you have, the less you need of each; decrease the main course portion sizes by 1 to 2 ounces if served on a buffet. Guests will always eat — and drink — more at night than during the day.

A good rule of thumb is to average 1½ servings of sweets per person. 12 to 16 guests: Aim for at least 3 desserts with this big party, so 1 pie, 1 cake and a batch of cookies should suffice.