14 brunch and decoration ideas for Valentine’s Day

N.B. If you’re the kind of person who hates Valentine’s Day, this post is not for you. Thanks for getting this far, but I think it’s probably for the best if we meet again in next week’s post 😁

Valentine’s Day is approaching, and if you’re the kind of person who celebrates it I guess you’ll be thinking about what special thing you can do for your significant other. Perhaps a romantic dinner, a special meal, a picnic, or a breakfast.

But have you ever considered preparing a Valentine’s Day brunch?


Today I give you 10 brunch recipes and 4 decoration ideas for Valentine’s Day in which hearts, naturally, feature highly. Just a little heads-up, I might have gone too far with so many hearts…

10 brunch recipes for Valentine’s Day

In the blog, Celebrate Creativity, Lisa Tutman-Oglesby gives us various recipes for this special occasion, and also talks us through each recipe step by step.

Brunch recipes ideas for Valentines day

Jojo Krang, from the blog Eye Candy, teaches us how to cut up cherry tomatoes and put them back together to make heart shapes

Cherry tomatoes heart shaped

Carey from the blog Reclaiming Provincial shows us to make a perfect egg in a basket:

Egg in the basket

And as at brunch you can’t not have bacon, Chelsea from The Paper Mama suggests how you can present it in the shape of a heart

Heart-shaped bacon

Moving on to sweet recipes, these pancakes with strawberries skewer by Mollie, from the blog Design loves details, are really simple to prepare, but look impressive

Pancakes with strawberries skewer

And what do you think of this poptarts, filled with nutella and decorated with strawberries, by Jessica from The Novice Chef?

Strawberry nutella poptarts

On the site Go dairy free I found this recipe for a strawberry muffin

Heart shaped muffins

But if you prefer making chocolate muffin, you could always use Auxy’s recipe – which I talked to you about in this post with 7 healthy brunch recipes.

And we’ll finish off with these fruity recipes which the blog Life in Wonderland showed us

Watermelon with heart

Heart shaped fruit kebabsSo many hearts, right? I, personally, love them – so much so that I’ve got a heart tattoo. But I admit that in my house I don’t have so much as a heart-shaped baking tin. So I thought I’d do a bit of investigation and I’ve found some interesting, and fairly cheap utensils. And if you’re also missing a few heart-shaped cooking tools, here are some of the ones I found for less than €10 and that you could buy with a direct click on the picture:

Heart-shaped mould for a boiled egg

Heart-shaped mould for a boiled egg Frying pan for heart-shaped fried eggs or omelettes Frying pan for heart-shaped fried eggs or omelettes

Sandwich cutter in the shape of a heart

Sandwich cutter in the shape of a heart Heart-shaped mould for pies

Heart-shaped mould for pies

Jigsaw-puzzle heart biscuit cutter Jigsaw-puzzle heart biscuit cutter

Simple heart shaped cutters for biscuits, bread or fruit
Simple heart shaped cutters for biscuits, bread or fruit

Heart-shaped silicon moulds for cupcakes or muffins
Heart-shaped silicon moulds for cupcakes or muffins

Heart-shaped ice-cube moulds with cupid’s arrows

Heart-shaped ice-cube moulds with cupid’s arrows

 

 

4 decoration ideas for your Valentine’s Day table 

Now that we have the food theme under control, let’s move on to decoration and a few DIY ideas:

On the page “dot com woman”  it shows us how to fold a napkin into the shape of heart: 

Heart-napkin-folding

Heart-napkin-folding-instructions

it also gives us an idea of how to decorate the table, with a rose on the plate and a few petals spread around.

rose-petals-table

On the table you can also have some serviettes cut into a circle of hearts, as Martha Steward shows in this video
Heart napkins garland

For the walls, and the doors, you could make some paper heart garland. On the site How about orange they explain how to do it
Paper-heart-garland

And the candles – don’t forget candles to create that intimate and romantic atmosphere.

Candles and rose petals

Pic by bodasoriginales.net

 

Now it’s your turn. Do you already know how you’ll surprise your Valentine?

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