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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!

A bowl of kale salad with shallot vinaigrette.

Favorite Kale Salad + Large Batch Shallot Vinaigrette

March 15, 2018

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

Perfect Pan-Seared Duck Breasts with Port Wine Sauce

October 19, 2017

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

February 14, 2017

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

February 14, 2017

Mandel Bread with Marzipan and Sea Salt, Two Ways

Mandel Bread with Marzipan & Sea Salt

September 30, 2016

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

Vegan Chocolate Mousse (Aquafaba + Almond milk)

September 23, 2016

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

September 4, 2016

A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Ottolenghi’s Lemon-Semolina Cake

May 20, 2016

Double Chocolate Cookies

Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies

May 8, 2016

Rich, fudgy brownies.

Best-Ever Fudgy Homemade Brownie Recipe

February 13, 2016

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

November 17, 2015

A stack of one-bowl buttermilk pancakes.

The BEST One-Bowl Buttermilk Pancake

August 18, 2015

An overhead shot of jars filled with chocolate mousse and topped with chocolate shavings.

Julia Child’s Chocolate Mousse

February 12, 2015

Heavy cream, sugar, vanilla bean, egg yolks — it would have been a serious let down if these pots de creme hadn't been anything but spectacular, which they were, tasting like untorched crème brulée, but better, with the smoothest, most velvety texture, perfectly sweet, deeply satisfying in every which way. // alexandracooks.com

Vanilla Bean Pots de Crème

February 6, 2015

Swedish Snack Bread

January 9, 2015

Overhead shot of boozy chocolate truffles on a table.

Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffles

December 9, 2014

A slice of butternut squash lasagna on a plate.

Butternut Squash Lasagna | Thanksgiving in VT

December 3, 2014

A skillet filled with crispy chicken thighs and preserved lemon.

Crispy Chicken Thighs with Preserved Lemon

November 18, 2014

A sheet pan filled with chocolate-coconut cookies.

Dark Chocolate, Coconut, Oatmeal Cookies

November 14, 2014

A bowl of farro risotto with butternut squash and kale.

Farro Risotto with Squash and Kale

November 6, 2014

Bowls of butternut squash and cider soup aside herbed flatbreads.

Butternut Squash and Cider Soup with Herbed Flatbread

October 21, 2014

Homemade Fluff, Bruléed or Not

October 17, 2014

A pile of homemade oven fries.

Crispy, Homemade Oven-Baked French Fries

September 25, 2014

Cinnamon pull-apart bread on a board.

Cinnamon and Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

April 25, 2014