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Valentine’s Day

This recipe collection covers all of my favorite Valentine’s Day recipes including a delicious pan-seared duck breast recipe and a complete Valentine’s Day menu including dessert!

The best and easiest recipe for rack of lamb. It takes five minutes to prepare. It's foolproof. And if you enjoy gnawing on bones as if they were lollipops, this recipe is for you. Make it. // alexandracooks.com

Easiest Rack of Lamb

An up close photo of cut brownies on a board.

Best-Ever Fudgy (Shiny-Topped!) Homemade Brownies

A slice of double chocolate cake with black velvet icing.

The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing

Overhead shot of boozy chocolate truffles on a table.

Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffles

This chocolate-espresso icebox cake takes all of 20 minutes to throw together, will receive rave reviews from your guests, and you will find too irresistible, impossible, in fact, not to sneak a little spoonful of every time you open the fridge. // alexandracooks.com

Chocolate-Espresso Icebox Cake

Double Chocolate Cookies

Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies

Shortbread in pink Ted Lasso biscuit box.

Simple, Classic Shortbread + A Ted Lasso Biscuit Box for Gifting

A bowl of homemade vegan chocolate mousse made with whipped aquafaba.

Vegan Chocolate Mousse (Aquafaba + Almond milk)

Bowls of butternut squash and cider soup aside herbed flatbreads.

Butternut Squash and Apple Cider Soup

A stack of one-bowl buttermilk pancakes.

The BEST One-Bowl Buttermilk Pancakes

Jean-Georges Chocolate Tart

A slice of butternut squash lasagna on a plate.

Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna

A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Lemon-Semolina Almond Cake

A plate of pan-seared Duck breasts with port wine sauce and roasted grapes.

Perfect Pan-Seared Duck Breasts with Port Wine Sauce

If you're looking for something to make for Valentine's Day, this bucatini carbonara couldn't be simpler to throw together: cook bacon, reserve the fat, use the fat to cook leeks; boil pasta, toss with eggs, fresh lemon juice, grated parmesan, and a little bit of pasta cooking liquid. Toss it all together, add some fresh parsley, and serve with more parmesan and lots of pepper. That's it! // alexandracooks.com

Valentine’s Day Menu: Bucatini Carbonara with Leeks & Lemon | Arugula & Endive Salad | Double Chocolate Cake

This double chocolate cake is made with buttermilk (magic!), oil (as opposed to butter), lots of cocoa powder, and coffee, if you wish, which intensifies the chocolate flavor. Yum. // alexandracooks.com

Gourmet’s Double Chocolate Cake, Revisited

Cinnamon pull-apart bread on a board.

Cinnamon and Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

An overhead shot of two bowls of classic French onion soup.

Classic French Onion Soup (No-Stock)

Swedish Snack Bread

A pile of homemade oven fries.

Crispy, Homemade Oven-Baked French Fries

This brown sugar shortbread is made with only three (or four) ingredients and requires nothing more than a wooden spoon and a bowl. It tastes like brown butter, salty and sweet, so much more than the sum of its parts, a shortbread loved as much by the big kids as the littles. // alexandracooks.com

Brown Sugar Shortbread

Valentine’s Day

Roast chicken with clementines.

Roasted Chicken with Clementines

3 Simple Tartines: Mushroom; Radicchio & Gorgonzola; Fresh Ricotta // Plus A Few More Ideas for Oscar Night