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Murielle Banackissa

Luxurious Date Night Recipes

What better way to celebrate a loved one (or yourself!) than by cooking a homemade meal from appetizer to dessert?

This list features delightful hors d’oeuvres, decadent mains, and dreamy desserts, all brought together to make your date night extra special.

Strawberry Loaf being drizzled with its icing.
Strawberry Loaf being drizzled with its icing.
Plate of risotto garnished with cooked wild mushrooms and fresh sage.
GF NF RSF
1 hour Serves 4
Wild Mushroom Risotto
Date Sweetened Double Chocolate Tarts-40
GF NF RSF
1 hour 30 mins Serves 4
Date Sweetened Double Chocolate Tarts
Rose Flavored Bounty Bars Cut in 2 with pink interior showing.
GF NF
45 mins Serves 6
Rose Flavored Bounty Bars
Dulce de Leche Thumbprint Cookies
NF
2 hours 15 mins Serves 12
Dulce de Leche Thumbprint Cookies
Spoon taken out of chocolate mug cake.
OF
5 mins Serves 1
The Best Oil Free Vegan Chocolate Microwave Cake
Cherry mojito garnished with fresh mint and surrounded by limes
GF NF OF RSF
5 mins Serves 1
Cherry Mojito
Cherry Pie Bars stacked one on top of another.
NF
1 hour 30 mins Serves 9
Cherry Pie Bars
Strawberry Loaf being drizzled with its icing.
NF
50 mins Serves 9
Strawberry Lemon Loaf
Miso Glazed Vegan Oyster Mushroom Scallops-14
GF NF RSF
15 mins Serves 2
Miso Glazed Vegan Oyster Mushroom Scallops
Overhead of Kale item-snippet-recipe Radicchio Salad with Tangy Grapefruit Dressing
GF NF OF RSF
10 mins Serves 2
Kale and Radicchio Salad with Tangy Grapefruit Dressing
Spicy Berry Trifle topped with fresh strawberry
NF
4 hours 40 mins Serves 8
Spicy Ginger and Berry Trifles
Cardamom and Coffee Dark Chocolate Truffles with bite taken out
GF OF
30 mins Serves 20
Cardamom and Coffee Dark Chocolate Truffles
Miso Mushroom Toast with Tahini Parsley Drizzle
NF RSF
30 mins Serves 10
Miso Mushroom Toast with Tahini Parsley Drizzle
Heart shaped apple donuts cooling off on a cooling rack.
NF
1 hour 30 mins Serves 24
Baked Heart Shaped Apple Donuts
Velvety Mint Hot Chocolate
GF NF OF
Serves 2
Velvety Mint Hot Chocolate
Cosmic Crisp Apple and Thyme Bites
GF NF RSF
20 mins Serves 12
Apple and Thyme Bites
Autumn Glory Tart Tatin
NF RSF
55 mins Serves 8
Luxurious Autumn Glory Tarte Tatin
Festive Prune Cocktail
GF NF OF RSF
5 mins Serves 1
Festive Prune Cocktail
Spiced Sachertorte Cake on a plate
NF
1 hour 45 mins Serves 10
Spiced Sachertore
Easy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies on wood board
NF
1 hour Serves 14
Easy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Overhead of 2 Vegan Vanilla-Cardamom Crème Brûlée broken open
GF NF
8 hours 30 mins Serves 5
Vegan Vanilla-Cardamom Crème Brûlée