17 Heart-Melting Valentine's Day Treats

From our friends at Food52.com, whose weekly recipe contests we've been featuring on HuffPost Food, comes this great collection of recipes for homemade Valentine's Day treats, perfect for bringing to the office or to send your kids to school with on Monday. For even more Valentine's Day recipes, cocktails and wine recommendations, check out the related links below the slides.

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Ancho Chili-Cinnamon Chocolate Bark

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Neither of us had ever made chocolate bark before we tried this recipe, and wanderash's version happens to be a great introduction. Waves of smooth dark chocolate are spiced with smoky ancho, cinnamon, cloves and black pepper, and studded with dried cherries, cashews and pistachios. The finished product looks lovely, packs easily and takes a total of about 20 minutes to put together. We think it makes a great holiday gift. - A&M

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Food52:

Neither of us had ever made chocolate bark before we tried this recipe, and wanderash's version happens to be a great introduction. Waves of smooth dark chocolate are spiced with smoky ancho, cinnamon, cloves and black pepper, and studded with dried cherries, cashews and pistachios. The finished product looks lovely, packs easily and takes a total of about 20 minutes to put together. We think it makes a great holiday gift. - A&M

Get the recipe.

Photo: Sarah Shatz

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[blenderbabe]

03:26 PM on 02/13/2011

These all look delicious! So many aphrodisiacs too. http://foodiegossip.blogspot.com/2011/02/have-hot-valentines-day-with-foodie.html Double Win, you get to eat it and hopefully only more pleasure to come!

[landgoddess]

11:18 AM on 02/13/2011

Can't get the recipe for the chocolate bark.

[mcmutter]

11:10 AM on 02/13/2011

Business will be picking up, according to the Retail Federation. Total spending for Valentine's Day is expected to be $15.7 billion, which is $1.6 billion more than 2010.

[IamYourDrillThrall]

09:33 AM on 02/13/2011

Chocolate and Pistachios. My two favorite food groups.

[KIVPossum]

02:46 PM on 02/13/2011

Are you related to my wife?

[shel3364]

11:31 PM on 02/12/2011

I had two of the Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies right from the oven.


HIGHLY recommended.

[dahpunkster]

10:50 PM on 02/12/2011

if you can't afford chocolate covered strawberries chocolate covered pretzels are wonderful too . snyders has a fairly big bag for 3 bucks and they aren't too sweet and I don't think there is any corn syrup in them. But I am not 100 percent sure on that . If you can't afford the pretzels you could always get your significant other a dark chocolate snickers bar. It is really rich and sofisticated tasting and not very good for you ,but it is Valentine's day and way better than a regular snickers.

[Ozark Homesteader]

11:02 AM on 02/13/2011

If you buy the strawberries and make your own chocolate sauce to dip as you eat, it's really inexpensive. Recipe below. :-)

You could also dip pretzels too.

[Ozark Homesteader]

10:47 PM on 02/12/2011

How about chocolate-cashew-toffee bark? Perfect for nibbling, too rich for too much: http://ozarkhomesteader.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/chocolate-cashew-bark-sweet-slightly-salty-decadent-toffee/

[dahpunkster]

10:44 PM on 02/12/2011

you guys forgot chocolate covered strawberries!!! Which aren't bad for you , are perfect with champagne and THEY are just a quintessential valentine's day food. like turkey on thanksgiving

[Ozark Homesteader]

10:48 PM on 02/12/2011

We like to dip our own in this really easy fondue sauce, good for serving to your sweetie: http://ozarkhomesteader.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/chocolate-sauce-in-1-12-minutes-or-less/

[NoMoTankYou]

09:34 PM on 02/12/2011

I don't know about you guys, but I go to unwrapture.com for gifts. They have all kinds of stores (exotic chocolate, teas, coffees, travel, tickets, yada yada) under one roof.

Just sayin'.

[keramos]

07:38 PM on 02/12/2011

There are now chocolate peanut butter coated Bugles.  Mmmmm

[IamYourDrillThrall]

09:36 AM on 02/13/2011

I cannot wrap my head around that.

[Ozark Homesteader]

03:19 PM on 02/13/2011

Salt, sweet, chocolate: I get it. I probably won't do it, but I get it. :-)

[krneely]

06:41 PM on 02/12/2011

macaron, not macaroon.

[R U Sirius]

05:51 PM on 02/12/2011

Heart-CLOGGING, more likely.

[electricladyland]

04:18 PM on 02/12/2011

17 Artery-Clogging Valentine's Day Treats. There, fixed the headline.

[R U Sirius]

05:52 PM on 02/12/2011

Oops. Glad you beat me to it!