Valentines Day Chocolate Boxes Recipe By Tasty

Steps:

• Make the strawberry sauce: Add the strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice to a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 10-15 minutes, until thickened. Transfer to a liquid measuring cup or medium bowl and let cool to room temperature.
• Once cooled, purée the strawberry mixture with an immersion or standing blender until smooth. Set aside.
• Make the cream cheese filling: In a large bowl, combine the powdered sugar, cream cheese, butter, cream, and vanilla. Beat with an electric hand mixer on medium speed until completely smooth, about 3 minutes. Transfer the filling to a piping bag and cut an opening about 1 inch (3 centimeters) from the tip. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to use.
• Make the red velvet pancakes: In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, granulated sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the buttermilk and vinegar and let sit for 2 minutes. Add the egg yolks, vanilla, melted butter, and red food coloring and mix until well combined.
• Whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
• In a large bowl, whip the egg whites with an electric hand mixer until stiff peaks form, 3-5 minutes, being careful not to overmix.
• Gently fold the egg whites into the batter. Let sit at room temperature for 5 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 250°F (120°C). Set a wire rack over a baking sheet.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Place a 6-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter in the center of the pan and spray the inside with nonstick spray. Scoop pancake batter into the mold, filling halfway up. Cover the pan and cook until bubbles form all over the surface and the pancake doesn't jiggle too much, 6-8 minutes. Uncover the pan and, using a wide spatula, carefully and quickly flip the mold. Cover and cook the pancake for another 3-4 minutes. Remove the pancake and mold from the pan, set the pancake on the wire rack to cool, and repeat with the remaining batter. If any batter leaks out of the mold while cooking, simply use a knife or kitchen scissors to trim off the excess once the pancakes have cooled a bit.
• Transfer the pancakes to the oven to keep warm until ready to serve.
• Make the chocolate sauce: In a medium microwave-safe bowl, melt the chocolate in 30-second intervals on medium power, stirring between, until melted and smooth.
• When ready to serve, drizzle some of the chocolate sauce onto 2 serving plates. Set a pancake in the center of each plate and pipe the cream cheese filling on top. Continue stacking, alternating between the pancakes and filling, with 3 pancakes per plate. Drizzle the top pancakes with more chocolate sauce. Using a piping bag or spoon, drizzle the strawberry sauce around the top edges and down the sides of the pancake stacks. Decorate the plates with whipped cream, chocolate chips, and strawberries.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, whip together the heavy cream, espresso powder.
• Add powdered sugar until you have stiff peaks.
• Cover and refrigerate so it can stiffen more before you add it to the chocolate box.
• To form the chocolate box: Use melted chocolate to "glue" the pieces together; leave the top off. Feel free to decorate the top. Set chocolate.
• Add the refrigerated whipped coffee cream, top with some whipped cream, add the strawberry, and place on the top piece of chocolate.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Bake mini chocolate cupcakes in foil liners, then microwave store-bought frosting (milk and dark chocolate flavors) until runny and spoon the frosting on top of the cupcakes. (Place whole almonds on a few before you frost so they'll look like classic boxed chocolates.) Drizzle melted white or dark chocolate on top. Fill a heart-shaped box with the cupcakes.