Pink Desserts {Valentine’s Day Desserts}

This roundup of pink treats (Valentine’s Day Desserts) has everything your heart desires- Beautiful cakes, cupcakes, cookies, candies that are homemade with simple ingredients! Great for baby showers or gender reveal parties too.

These treats are perfect for Valentine’s Day parties, Mother’s Day, wedding anniversaries, baby showers and even gender reveal parties for girls. As a bonus, I have shared a new delicious recipe at the end of this post for chocolate coconut cookies that also fits this theme perfectly since the cookies are coated in pink coconut.

You can obviously use all these desserts here in this roundup to set up a beautiful Valentine’s Day Party too.

How to Make Pink Desserts?

The pink color can be achieved through the following:

• Food coloring- Liquid or gel based.
• Fruits- Especially pureed strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, dragonfruit, watermelon.
• Jams and preserves- Especially raspberry and strawberry.
• Sprinkles and sugar decorations- There is a variety of designs available.

Pink Cakes

Since cakes are one of the most classic desserts out there, it made logical sense to kickstart this roundup with them. Make them from scratch or use a doctored cake mix recipe. From that point onwards, it’s all about the correct pairing of icings and decorations. Stick to a pink theme with pink food coloring in the batter, in the frosting and obviously use pink sprinkles and sugar decorations or fondant decorations.

Pink Velvet Cake (From Scratch)

Soft, moist, easy pink velvet cake recipe from scratch, homemade with simple ingredients. Paired with strawberry frosting and fresh strawberries. Perfect for Valentine's Day.

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Mini Love Letter Cake

Use this cake decorating tutorial to make easy mini love letter cake. Great for Anniversaries or Valentine's day and can be used as Wedding party favors.

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Chocolate Marshmallow Cake (Heart Cake)

Quick and easy chocolate marshmallow cake recipe. This soft and moist heart cake with strawberry frosting and pink marshmallows is perfect for Valentine's day.

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Chocolate Bark Cake

Learn how to make this quick and easy chocolate bark cake. An easy cake decorating technique for Valentine’s day, Weddings, Anniversaries, birthday parties.

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Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake

This delicious raspberry mousse cake is composed of 4 layers: Vanilla cake, Raspberry mousse, Chocolate ganache, Fresh fruit decorations. Beautiful dessert for special occasions!

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Easy Mother’s Day Cake Tower

Easy Mother's Day Cake Tower recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Slices of pound cake are stacked & decorated with pink buttercream & fondant flowers.

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Buttercream Ruffle Cake

Use this quick and easy cake decorating tutorial to learn how to make buttercream ruffle cake with just Tip 104. Perfect for Valentine's day parties!

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Fondant Bows

Learn how to make easy fondant bows with no cutters, using this step by step tutorial. Super cute for decorating cakes and cupcakes. 

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Easy Love Cake

Use this cake decorating tutorial to make an easy Love cake for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day or Anniversaries with fondant, sprinkles, edible markers.

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Fondant Flower Cake

Learn how to make easy fondant flower cake with a polka dot design, using basic tools and cutters. It's great for girls birthday parties or even Spring or Summer wedding parties.

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Pink Cupcakes

Pink cupcakes are just as easy to make as any other pink treat out there. Use pink natural food colors or liquid food colors or gel colors. I am a big fan of gel colors since they are concentrated and don’t affect the consistency of the batter or icing. Dragon fruits are naturally pink and make a beautiful decoration for this theme. Also, strawberry puree adds a nice natural pink color. Dried strawberry and raspberry powder is another natural way to add pink color to your treats.

Pink Champagne Cupcakes With Champagne Buttercream Frosting

Quick, easy pink champagne cupcakes recipe with champagne buttercream frosting. Soft, moist, fluffy! Great for New Year’s party or Valentine’s Day.

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Easy Strawberry Cupcakes From Scratch

Quick, easy fresh strawberry cupcakes recipe, homemade from scratch with simple ingredients. Pink, soft, moist, topped with strawberry buttercream frosting.

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Mini No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes

Easy mini no bake strawberry cheesecake cupcakes recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Composed of graham cracker crust, cheesecake filling, fresh strawberry topping.

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Easy Flower Cupcake Bouquet

Learn how to make easy flower cupcake bouquet with frosting. This pull apart floral cupcake cake is great for Mother's Day, Valentine's Day parties.

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Pink Cookies

They are certain extracts and flavors that are just associated with the pink color such as cotton candy, peppermint, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, pomegranates and cranberries. The most popular cookies in this collection are the peppermint cookies. Although the extract is clear in color, the dough can be colored pink.

Peppermint Cookies

Quick and easy white chocolate peppermint cookies recipe, made from scratch with simple ingredients. Crispy and crackly on the outside, chewy on the inside.

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Cotton Candy Cookies

Quick and easy cotton candy cookies recipe with cake mix. These crispy, chewy chocolate cookies are topped with buttercream icing and pink cotton candy. Great for serving at kids birthday parties!

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Champagne Cookies

This easy champagne cookies recipe requires a few simple ingredients and no chilling. These champagne sugar cookies are decorated with champagne frosting.

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Easy Flower Cookies

Use this cookie decorating tutorial to make quick and easy flower cookies with marshmallow fondant, sugar cookies. Great for weddings, birthdays or use as party favors.

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Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies

Quick and easy chocolate cake mix cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Soft and chewy, dipped in melted chocolate and covered in sprinkles. Many add-in options included.

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Easy Meringue Cookies (Egg White Cookies)

Easy meringue cookies recipe (egg white cookies), homemade with simple ingredients. A classic Christmas cookie that's delicate, light, airy and packed with vanilla flavor. 

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Easy Tulip Cookies

Use this step by step cookie decorating tutorial to make easy tulip cookies. Only basic cutters, round sugar cookies and marshmallow fondant needed!

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Easy Valentine’s Day Cookies (Love Letter Cookies)

Quick and easy Valentine's Day cookies (love letter cookies), homemade with simple ingredients. All you need is sugar cookies or graham crackers, marshmallow fondant and edible markers.

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No Bake Desserts

Desserts that don’t require the use of oven are my favorite to make since they are typically quick and easy. In these recipes below, the pink fruit dip is the most popular and it comes together in minutes. It’s super rich and creamy and is always a hit at parties with kids and adults!

Easy Fruit Dip Recipe

Quick and easy cream cheese fruit dip recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Smooth, rich, creamy. Perfect for dipping fresh fruits at parties.

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Watermelon Ice Cream (2 Ingredients)

Quick and easy watermelon ice cream recipe, made with just 2 ingredients. This simple, no churn ice cream is healthy, creamy and great for Summer parties.

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Raspberry Mousse

Easy fresh raspberry mousse recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. It's light, fluffy, airy and melts in your mouth. Perfect for Valentine's day!

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Homemade Sugar Cubes (Hearts and Stars)

Learn how to make homemade sugar cubes with 3 simple ingredients! Any shape and color is possible! Use it to decorate cakes and cupcakes.

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Homemade Fruit Popsicles

Learn how to make quick & easy homemade fruit popsicles from scratch with simple ingredients. Full of fresh juices. No artificial colors or preservatives!

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Easy Royal Icing Flowers

Use this tutorial to learn how to make easy royal icing flowers for decorating cakes and cupcakes. They can be made months in advance and dry hard.

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Pies

You can take any white pie mixture and turn it pink with food coloring or the addition of a red fruit puree like strawberry or raspberry. This cranberry pie was naturally pink and paired with whipped cream. You can replace cranberries with any other fruit of your choice.

No Bake Cranberry Pie

Easy no bake cranberry pie recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Loaded with cranberry sauce, whipped cream, orange flavors over a graham cracker crust.

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Candy

Homemade candies are so much fun to make. You need to use oil-based food coloring since liquid food coloring can make the chocolate texture grainy. Using colored jello powder (as seen in the marshmallow candy below) is another way to add the right color and some flavor too.

Coffee Fudge (Espresso Fudge)

Easy coffee fudge recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. This mocha fudge is full of semisweet chocolate chips, espresso powder and toasted almonds.

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White Chocolate Bark

Quick and easy white chocolate bark recipe, homemade with 2 simple ingredients with many topping ideas. Great as Christmas dessert or homemade gift.

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JELL-O Marshmallow Candy

Easy JELL-O marshmallow candy or JELL-O pinwheels, made in 1 hour with 4 basic ingredients. This is a simple no bake dessert or snack for kids parties.

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Frosting

Any cake, cupcake or brownie recipe can be elevated to a whole new level of deliciousness with the correct frosting pairing. Maraschino cherry juice or blackberry puree or strawberry puree or strawberry sauce can give any white icing a stunning pink shade and add flavor as well.

Maraschino Cherry Frosting Recipe

Quick, easy cherry frosting recipe (creamy cherry buttercream)- Made with 4 ingredients: butter, sugar, maraschino cherry juice, extract. Perfect for piping

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Strawberry Frosting (With Fresh Strawberries)

Quick and easy fresh strawberry frosting recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. This berry buttercream icing is smooth, creamy, easy to spread and pipe.

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Blackberry Buttercream Frosting

Quick and easy blackberry buttercream frosting recipe made with fresh blackberries. Great for piping and filling cakes and cupcakes. Perfect Summer dessert. 

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Beverages

Although these are not desserts, they are pink in color and still satisfy those overwhelming sweet cravings. Natural pink color can easily be achieved through berries and some high quality protein powders. These smoothies are also healthier alternatives to traditional party drinks.

Strawberry Smoothie

Quick and easy strawberry smoothie recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. It's refreshing, healthy, rich and creamy. Perfect for breakfast or snack!

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Banana Raspberry Smoothie

The best, thick, quick and easy raspberry smoothie recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Healthy breakfast on the go, packed with oatmeal, Greek yogurt, milk, fruits.

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My Favorite Pink Dessert- Chocolate Coconut Cookies

When it comes to my my favorite dessert, that has to be these chocolate coconut cookies. They are small cookies, which are coated in pink colored coconut. The cookies have the best texture- soft on the inside, crispy on the outside and slightly chewy, thanks to all that coconut.

Instead of shredded or desiccated coconut, you can roll cookies in pink sprinkles or pink sanding sugar too. However, I highly recommend using coconut because it adds a lovely flavor and texture, which compliments the chocolate cookie flavor very well. Add-ins like chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips can also be stirred into the dough to elevate them even further.

Ingredients

• 2 Eggs, Large
• 1/3 cup Oil, Can use melted coconut oil or light olive oil or vegetable oil or canola oil or corn oil
• 1.5 tsp Coconut extract
• 1 box Chocolate cake mix
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1/3-1/2 cup Mini chocolate chips, Adjust according to your preference
• 2 cups Desiccated coconut , Colored pink

Instructions

1. In a large mixing bowl, add eggs, oil, coconut extract and mix until smooth.
2. Add chocolate cake mix, baking powder and mix until just combined. Don’t over-mix!
3. Stir in chocolate chips until they are evenly incorporated.
4. Chill dough in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes to make it easier to handle, if it’s too sticky.
5. Scoop out small portions of the dough and form little balls. These will be small cookies.
6. Roll them in a bowl of pink desiccated coconut.
7. Place them on a cookie tray, lined with parchment paper.
8. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are firm but center is slightly soft.
9. Let them cool in the tray and then enjoy!

Storage

Keep them in a sealed container at room temperature for up to 3 days and in the fridge for up to 5 weeks. They can also be frozen in a sealed bag for up to 1 month and thawed at room temperature or in the fridge overnight.