12 chefs' creations for a successful Valentine's Day

Émilie Lesur | 2/5/24, 3:08 PM

There are many ways to declare your love... And what if sharing a dessert was one of them? Discover 12 chef's creations to enjoy with your other half.

If there's one day when it's important to enjoy your dessert, it's February 14. For Valentine's Day, pastry chefs and chocolatiers have been busy creating desserts that are as beautiful as they are delicious. Discover our selection of 12 sweet delights to be enjoyed (almost) without moderation.

Entremets Meringue d'amour from the Ritz Paris

François Perret embarks you on a gourmet idyll, light, melting and crisp. The Entremets Meringue d'amour features a meringue shell and a heart of whipped cream and pink praline caramel.

Where? Available from February 5, 2024 at the Ritz Paris Le Comptoir, and click & collect pre-orders from February 1.
Price: €18

Bernhard Winkelmann

Christophe Michalak's Cœur fleur de violette

Pastry chef Christophe Michalak delights everyone, even the gluten-intolerant, with his almond cookie, casis cream, red fruit confit and violet ganache. A pretty flower that symbolizes a thought for someone, or "je t'aime en secret" (in the language of flowers).

Where to buy? In boutiques
Price: 22 euros

Delphine Michalak

Fleur pomme-griotte by Jeffrey Cagnes

For Valentine's Day, Jeffrey Cagnes revisits the love apple. This revisitation features a Breton shortbread base, morello cherry confit, apple tatin, rose, Amarena cherries and a morello cherry ganache.

Where to buy Pre-orders from 1ᵉʳ February 2024. In store from February 9 to 18, 2024.
Price: from 19 euros

Philippe Conticini's Valentine's Heart

For Valentine's Day, the pastry chef has opted for chocolate and hazelnuts. On the menu: a dark chocolate pâte sucrée, a dark chocolate, almond and feuillantine crunch, a dark and milk chocolate ganache, a 69% almond and hazelnut praline, a hazelnut ganache montée and a 66% dark chocolate disk in a red velvety version for the occasion.

Where to buy Pre-orders from February 2, 2024. In store from February 9 to 18, 2024
Price: 20 euros

Entremets "Le Cœur fraise-coco" by Maison Kayser

In the mood for sunshine? This strawberry-coconut gustatory voyage will brighten your taste buds. On a coconut shortbread base, the intensity of a coconut mousse with lemony notes and the crunch of a coconut dacquoise cookie are revealed.

Where to buy? Available in Maison Kayser bakeries in Paris, from February 10 to 14, 2024.
Price: from 6.70 euros

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Pierre Hermé's Éclosion collection

Pierre Hermé continues its collaboration with painter Yukiko Noritake for Valentine's Day, illustrating boxes of macaroons and chocolate bonbons. At the same time, you can share his delicious Cœurs Mêlés, including the Ultime flavor"A tempo in three beats where Pure Origin Belize, Cayo District, Plantation Xibun chocolate sets the tone, followed by the intense, woody notes of Madagascar vanilla to end on the taste of chocolate punctuated with fleur de sel."

Where? Tartes available from January 25 to March 6, 2024 Cœurs Mêlés Ultime available from February 10 to 14, 2024
Price: 34 euros for a Cœur Mêlé, from 12 euros for a tart

Oh my crush! by Nina Métayer

"In a very limited edition, I imagined this signature creation as an elegant, playful and gourmet gift to be shared anywhere and at any time!" explains the pastry chef. The entremets feature a pecan crunch, grapefruit zest-infused mousse, vanilla cream, grapefruit compote and 100% homemade pecan praline. Don't miss the decor: cigarette tile flowers and small marzipan flowers.

Where to buy Valentine's Collection available from February 7 to 20, 2024.
Price: 34 euros

Louise Marinig

"Ladurée's "Le Baiser

This season's signature creation, imagined by chef Julien Alvarez and his teams, features an almond dacquoise topped with strawberry compote and orange blossom vanilla mascarpone Chantilly. Enough to melt your heart!

Where to buy Available from February 10 to February 14, 2024 in Ladurée boutiques and on laduree.fr in click&collect.
Price: 12 euros

Pierre Monetta

The Valentine to share by Cyril Lignac

Chefs Cyril Lignac and Benoit Couvrand have come up with the perfect entremets for half and half. This gourmet heart combines an almond and lime zest financial cookie, an almond praline crunch, a raspberry compote and a light almond cream.

Where? Available from 1ᵉʳ to February 14, 2024 inclusive.
Price: 16 euros

Mon Chou à la crème by Sébastien Gaudard

Love is sweet. At least, that's what pastry chef Sébastien Gaudard suggests with his airy choux pastry filled with smooth Madagascar vanilla cream and topped with crunchy caramel.

Where? Available in a limited edition from February 10 to February 15, 2024.
Price: 20 euros

L'Ourson by Maison Sève

This Valentine's Day, master pastry chef and chocolatier Richard Sève has come up with "Les Oursons in Love", a chocolate and raspberry experience to suit every taste. The chocolate is made with 100% fair-trade, sustainable Nicaraguan cocoa from the Rio San Juan - El Castillero Plantation, and is combined with a soft chocolate cookie, a smooth cream and light dark chocolate mousse, and a cocoa nib praline crunch. With raspberry, it dons a red coat, concealing a raspberry mousse, while a vanilla namelaka cream caresses the taste buds. The pain de gêne cookie is generously topped with raspberries. The whole is finished with a fine layer of raspberry praline crunch.

Where to buy? Available in boutiques in Lyon or by click & collect.
Price: 10 euros

Bouchée cœur bouquet from La Maison du Chocolat

Nicolas Cloiseau has just the thing to give your other half a crunchy, gourmet break, with a mouthful of almond-hazelnut praline with roasted Koshihikari Japanese brown rice chips, coated with
milk chocolate. A delicious treat!

Where to buy? Available in stores and online from January 23, 2024.
Price: 20 euros a piece

Laurent Rouvrais

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