Is Your Guy a Chocolate Chip Cookie or Red Velvet Cake? Valentine's Desserts to Match Your Partner!

A box of chocolates isn't one size fits all. Give your special someone a Valentine's Day to remember with one of these tailor-made, homemade treats (11 Photos)

Casey Barber on Feb 4, 2013 at 12:17PM

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Is Your Guy a Chocolate Chip Cookie or Red Velvet Cake? Valentine's Desserts to Match Your Partner!

Excerpted from The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day & Griffith Day (Artisan Books). Copyright 2011. Photographs by Squire Fox.

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Kid at Heart


Want to make your guy feel giddy as a schoolboy on Valentine’s Day? Serve him one of these treats that take nostalgic lunchbox favorites and tweak them for adult palates, like these “Pinkies.” Coconutty-chocolate cupcakes that just look like the retro Hostess desserts of our youth, they’re a dessert that’ll bring a smile to anyone’s face.

Get the recipe for Pinkies Chocolate Lunchbox Treats!

More playful desserts:
“Oreo” Cupcakes
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

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