Vegan Valentines Recipes (2024)

Vegan valentines recipes help us celebrate Valentines Day with the gift of food. Favorite sweets for everyone, with some savory meal options too.

recipe collection originally published February 9, 2013

Recipes for all Valentines Day celebrations

These vegan valentines recipes are not just limited to a significant other. Friends, coworkers, friends children - any and all benefit from my propensity to create pink treats!

For me, Valentines food tends to lean toward chocolate. Sweets and desserts are the first thing I think of before my menu expands to include savory vegan Valentines recipes and an entire meal planned.

After more than a decade of recipe creation, many of the recipes here have played a starring role in our own Valentines celebrations, and I happily share them with you!

Savory Valentines recipes

If you are planning to create an entire Valentines meal (and like to skip the holiday restaurant thing like we do), we have a few savory recipes that really fancy up a menu. Brunch, lunch, and dinner - these recipes pair nicely with a bottle of wine and any of the desserts below!

• Avocado Florentine - Another delicious recipe for the weekend brunch schedule - the several easy steps to assemble this dish are so worth the time! You'll want this again and again.
• Shiitake Cauliflower Risotto - This impressive and flavorful comfort food recipe is a must make! Savory sautéed shiitakes top this vegetable forward favorite.
• Green Goddess Salad - Brimming with freshness and bright, herby flavors, this is a deliciously vibrant salad. It stays crunchy and flavorful for several days in the fridge.
• Buffalo Jackfruit Enchiladas- A comfort food winner that is less fancy, easy to make, but no less impressive! Flavorful and satisfying, enchiladas may just be your new favorite Valentines dinner in...
• Amaranth Stuffed Squash- The layers of flavor in this acorn squash are incredible, and make an impression for sure. If you are looking for a beautifully presented comfort food, this is it.

Date night ideas

If you are like us, you'd rather not go to a restaurant on Valentines Day. Been there, done that - and it is often an unremarkable experience in an overly crowded space. We love to go out, so we schedule that as a post Valentines night out, often a couple of weekends later, so we miss all the Valentines promotional menus and crowds.

Finding unconventional ways to celebrate Valentines day is more our speed. You know, like having a secret wedding ceremony in a private karaoke room 8 months before our big wedding.

Here are some date night ideas to jump start your own Valentines planning, or plans for any date night out. Use one or several to plan a date to remember.

• Cook together. Make a fancy and fun dinner at home. Make each of your favorite dishes or try something new. Use these super fun foodie dice to help you decide the menu!
• Enroll in a cooking class. Instead of making dinner at home, take a cooking class together. Learn to roll sushi, bake pastries, or throw pizza dough! We have taken many classes over the years and always have fun.
• Visit a bookstore. Each of you choose a favorite book for the other to read - book recommendations tell you a lot about a person. Grab a coffee and stroll through the books for an afternoon. This date can also happen at a library - check out books for each other.
• Enjoy a happy hour at home! Trade your glass of wine for a new co*cktail, and shake things up with mixology dice, another fun prompt set.
• Wine tasting. Instead of being your own mixologist, enjoy a flavorful flight at a local vineyard. Schedule a tour if those are available, and take a couple of your favorite bottles home to enjoy later.
• Sign up for a dance class. Learning a new skill together is always fun, and as a bonus, you might gain some impressive dance floor moves to use in the future.
• Thrift store shopping. Do something silly and SO fun like choosing outfits for each other. Change into these outfits and go out in them. Bonus points for formal wear.
• Driving range or a round of golf. Hit a bucket of balls or rent a cart and zoom around for 9 holes.
• Stroll a farmers market. Shop local and support farmers. For Valentines, this might be early in the season, but save this idea for spring and summer dates on weekend mornings or a weekday afternoon. Search the markets in your area and choose a new one each week. (Here in Portland, at least one of our markets are already open for the season by Valentines day - so yours might be too.
• Have a spa night. This one works with your valentine OR a galentines friends date! Give each other facials using fun masks and pedicures finishing with bright nail colors.
• Bowling. As a couple or as a group date with friends, bowling is always a good time.
• Trivia night. Find a local bar or restaurant that holds trivia nights. Join as a team of two or assemble a team with friends. Make it a regular thing.
• BINGO night! Same as trivia - BINGO can be so fun. Grab a different color dauber for each person and play several cards at once to increase your odds.
• Make some art! Have one of those paint and pinot events, but at home. These art dice can nudge your creativity and provide some fun ideas to paint or draw.

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