Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats Board

Romance the love bugs in your house with our simple and fun Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats Board! Pick up your favourite Valentine’s Day chocolates, candies and treats to make this creative, cheerful and enjoyable board to share with your favourite people!

Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats Board

Let’s be honest, Valentine’s Day is a great reason to indulge in all the candy and chocolate whether you celebrate with someone, or not.

I’ve been preparing different kinds of boards and charcuterie boards for years and every time it’s something new and fun. Several years ago I wrote about How to Assemble a Charcuterie Board and have expanded on them ever since.

This Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats Board is filled with candy, dessert, sweets or treats and can by anything you want it to be including all chocolate, candy, desserts, even, gasp healthy!

If you don’t have a romantic partner in your life make one to share with your roomie, friends (Galentine’s Day), family or yourself. Who needs a reason for treats?!

Tools you need to make this Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats Board

This is fairly straight forward, but here’s what we gather each time we make a board.

• A cutting board, serving board, serving dish or something along those lines to hold the items. The size depends on how many people you are sharing your board with. For our family of four we keep it on the smaller side. For my Moms Wine Group it would be slightly larger.
• A plan for what type of board you want to make (ie: candy, chocolate, sweets, cookies, pastries).
• Little bowls of varying sizes to hold some of the items. They don’t have to be heart shaped!
• The candy, chocolates and treats of course.
• If it’s just my husband and I enjoying this board, I will pick out special treats that we both love.

Here’s a few ideas of items we have used to create our boards.

What to put on your Board?! Here’s some ideas to get you started:

I make a list before I go shopping otherwise I end up with way more than what I need.

• Mini donuts or mini cupcakes
• Rice Krispy squares made with heart sprinkles and cut into hearts with cookie cutters
• Brownies cut into heart shapes or two bite brownies
• Any kind of cookies (red, white, pink, heart shaped, meringues), macarons, pink wafer cookies
• Pretzel sticks dipped in chocolate/sprinkles, yogurt dipped pretzels
• Chocolate dipped strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, watermelon
• Red, White, Pink smarties, m&ms
• Heart shaped candies
• Candy sticks, lollipops, jelly beans
• Red or pink licorice
• Any kind of chocolate
• Marshmallows: heart shaped, large and dipped in chocolate with sprinkles
• Red or pink fudge or bark

If you have more ideas to add to this board, please leave suggestions in the comments below!

How to assemble the board

There is no write or wrong way to assemble a board. I like the items on my boards a little messy vs set up in neat lines as it adds height, textures and a whole lot of surprises when you start digging in. And I love a variety!

1. If your board is on the small side you may want to set it in a large cookie sheet. This allows for easy transport.
2. In no specific order, scatter your bowls on the board. These are the anchors and additional items will be placed around them. Fill bowls with candies.
3. Add bigger items next, IE: brownies, cookies, chocolate dipped strawberries, cake pops, mini cupcakes, chocolate dipped strawberries, etc.
4. Take the biggest sized candies next, IE: chocolate dipped pretzels and scatter them around in a line or swerve wherever they fit.
5. Adding finishing touches. Scatter extra bits on top everywhere.

Want a romantic setting? Here’s some tips and tricks!

• Have a floor picnic in your living room. Lay down a nice table cloth, blankets, pillows.
• If you prefer a table, set up your linens there!
• Candles to set the mood!
• Chill a bottle of prosecco, champagne, rose, your favourite white. Decanter a bottle of red wine, or prepare mocktails like the Pink Lady Punch listed below,
• Flowers are a nice touch! Rose petals sprinkled around are romantic!
• Make a play list and turn it on and up!
• Set up some fairy lights!
• Board games or puzzles anyone?!
• Order take out for a main meal and this fun board for dessert! Or make a heart shaped pizza to share!
• Add a chocolate fondue (recipe below) to the mix!
• Feed each other!
• Have pen and paper together and try to create a fun poem about each other. Or write the other person a love letter.
• Pick up some heart shaped or red paper plates and napkins!

Any tips we’ve missed? Add them in the comments below!

Some of the treats on the board are here!

• Cinnamon Heart Popcorn Crunch: Awesome tucked into lunch bags or enjoyed while watching a movie!
• Broken Glass Jello: Fun snack to enjoy at home, or for dessert!
• Pink Lady Punch: This is a mocktail and so delicious!
• Cinnamon Heart Cookies: Fun to make and gift to friends, neighbours, family or put in lunches!
• Chocolate Fondue: Because chocolate dipped everything including the cookies above!
• Chocolate Chunk Fudge Brownies: Ever try dipping fudge into a chocolate fondue? Trust me, game changer!

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