25 Galentine's Day Recipes To Show Your Friends Some Love
While Valentine's Day is traditionally a day for romance, Galentine's Day is for showing the friends in your life some extra love and appreciation. Before your February 14th festivities, celebrate the platonic loves of your life with these recipes for cocktails (and mocktails!), desserts, and bites that are sure to spoil your friend group. Set out some party games, queue up the best cheesy rom-coms (anything with Colin Firth, obviously), and dig in!
To start your night-in off right, we've got plenty of fun, fruity, and festive drinks to serve your entire Galentine's Day crowd. From giggle juice (the best way to have you and your friends laughing all night long) to love potion #10 to our bee’s knees mocktail spritz, our drinks will have you and your pals belting "Drunk In Love" in no time. Spending your night playing games and spilling tea? Simple snacks like sushi popcorn and pizza roses will keep you and your friends happily snacking no matter the activity. Hosting a Galentine’s brunch like Leslie Knope? Our mini Dutch baby pancakes and cherry bomb mimosas set the scene for a fun-filled affair.
Don't worry—we didn't leave out any of the adorable desserts. Chocolate-covered strawberry mousse, chocolate lava cakes, and red velvet cheesecake brownies are the cutest treats to set out for your friends to snack on. For an activity and snack in one, why not create bite-sized desserts together? Decorate heart cookies or fill strawberry love notes for the sweetest group activity. Or, take your rage out (in a healthy, delicious way) on some exes by torching some brûléed brie crostini. Whatever you and your friend group plan to do to celebrate a night of friendship, we'll keep you snacking and sharing all night long.
Need more alternative Valentine’s Day inspo? Check out our breakup-inspired cocktails to celebrate kissing that toxic ex goodbye.
Pull-Apart Heart
Nothing says “I love you” like a melt-in-your mouth pastry that is both irresistible and ridiculously cute. This heart-shaped, shareable dessert has just the right amount of sweetness to make anyone’s heart skip a beat. Bursting with Nutella and brushed with raspberry glaze, this heart screams love with every tear.
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Strawberry Brownies
Channel your inner Glinda the Good Witch because these spellbinding strawberry brownies are pretty in pink, unapologetically charming, and ready to steal the spotlight. Made from scratch with fresh strawberries and decorated with white chocolate-strawberry ganache, these beauties might sound complicated, but trust—they’re simple!
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Love Potion #10
Get ready to fall in love...with this beautiful cocktail. It has all the makings of your favorite rom-com: a flowery and sweet beginning, followed by a light and bright finish where everything always works out. The magic ingredient that takes this potion from a nine to a ten? Butterfly pea flower tea.
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Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Mousse
Light and creamy strawberry mousse is topped with a rich chocolate ganache and adorned with whipped cream, chocolate-covered Oreo crunchies, and fresh strawberries for light but decadent dessert that will say “I love you” to anyone lucky enough to eat it.
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Pizza Roases
Make a whole bouquet of these pizza roses—they're surprisingly easy to assemble, thanks to crescent roll dough, but will impress your entire friend group.
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Strawberry Palmiers
These little palmiers are simple to make with ingredients you likely have on hand, making them an ideal last-minute treat. Puff pastry is rolled in a generous amount of granulated sugar, sprinkled with freeze-dried strawberry powder, and dipped in white chocolate. The result is flaky, jam-filled bites that will outshine any box of chocolates.
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Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies
They say that after a while you start mimicking, or even mirroring, the people you spend the most time with, and we believe that is the case with these red velvet cheesecake brownies. The fudginess of the red velvet and the tang of the cheesecake make a beautiful partnership, while the brownie is the perfect base to hold it all together.
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Mini Dutch Baby Pancakes
We love our classic skillet Dutch baby, but we’re also very into the mini versions as well, especially since they still have that iconic well that is perfect for filling with jams, preserves, fruits, and whipped cream.
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An Americano In Paris
This drink is the illegitimate love child of a classic cocktail and a French aperitif; an Americano with an accent that is ready to transport you to the river Seine on a crisp Parisian evening.
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Sushi Popcorn
When it comes to movie snacks, it doesn't get much more classic than buttered popcorn. While I'm all about plain ol' buttered popcorn, I also love to get creative with the seasonings. This sushi-inspired popcorn is flavored with a mix of Japanese seasonings like togarashi (a chile blend) and crumbled nori (dried seaweed). The result is an umami-packed salty snack that will have you skipping ordering that sushi takeout.
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Strawberry Love Notes
These notes, made from pre-made pie crust, open up to reveal a message of your favorite strawberry jam—what more could you ask for. Ready in under an hour, this easy dessert is the perfect sweet to hand out to all of your BFFs.
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Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Swiss Roll Cake
Good news: Swiss rolls look more intimidating than they actually are. This version is filled with a light and fluffy strawberry filling that's perfect for a Valentine’s Day treat, or just because you love the combo of chocolate and strawberries. If you're feeling extra, serve some freshly dipped chocolate-covered strawberries alongside the cake for decorations, but the beautiful spiral of this cake also speaks for itself.
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Cherry Bomb Mimosa
A relationship with a love bomber may start off nice, but can quickly devolve into disaster. Instead, forget about your ex, and have a cherry bomb mimosa that's lovely from start to finish. The sweet-tart combo of pineapple juice and grenadine is an ideal drink for a Galentine's Day brunch.
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Tiramisu Dip
What do you do when you’re craving tiramisu, but you don’t have the time or patience to chill it for hours? Enter tiramisu dip. It’s got all the right flavors—creamy mascarpone, rich espresso, and a generous dusting of cocoa powder—and it comes together in just 10 minutes.
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Heart Cookies
What better way to spend your night in with friends than a cookie-decorating party? You don't need to be a baking whiz to whip up these homemade cookies—no matter your decorating skills, these too-cute cookies are sure to look (and taste) amazing.
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Fried Buffalo Artichoke Hearts
We bet you've heard of Buffalo wings made from cauliflower or tempeh, but what about artichokes? Be still our beating hearts!
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Dirty Martini Pasta
If you're serving dinner to your pals, then this pasta is the best way to transform your favorite cocktail into a main dish. Just like a dirty martini, we supplement the dish with olives and brine (and booze, of course). The best part? It comes together in under 30 minutes.
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Edible Cookie Dough
Loaded with mini chocolate chips and all those classic buttery brown sugar vibes, this “naughty” nostalgic treat will transport you and your friends to childhood sleepovers after just one bite.
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Red Velvet Cheesecake Bites
Covered in red velvet cake crumbs, these sweet cheesecake balls are the perfect small bite for any girls' night. With a creamy cheesecake center and a soft red velvet cake exterior, they almost resemble a cake pop, but are so much creamier. Besides, who likes to limit themself to one piece of cake? With individual bite-sized cheesecake balls, nobody is keeping track. Enjoy and enjoy again!
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Blood Orange Mocktail Spritzer
This blood orange and ginger spritzer hits all the right notes: a little sweet, a little sour, and a little spiced. Finished off with a bouquet of fresh garnishes, it’s the perfect winter cocktail mocktail to toast with all night long.
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Jelly Donut Breakfast Bake
We took the nearly effortless concept behind bread pudding and combined it with leftover donuts in this spectacular breakfast bake. To make this even more nostalgic, we’ve added raspberry preserves once baked, so you’ll feel like you’re eating a glorified jelly donut.
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Giggle Juice
Get ready to be giggling with your friends all night long once you've had a few of these extra-sweet cocktails. This fruity drink is filled with wine, lemonade, and vodka, which is pretty much the most delicious, irresistible drink combo. This punch makes up to 8 servings, so it's ideal to get the party started for a crowd.
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Pepper Jelly & Cream Cheese Bites
Loved our cranberry brie bites this winter? Let us introduce you to your new favorite year-round snack—pepper jelly adds the perfect sweet and spicy kick, while cream cheese makes these infinitely poppable. Thanks to store-bought puff pastry, they're also SO easy to make.
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Bee's Knees Mocktail Spritz
Winter is the perfect time to swap your favorite cocktail for a mocktail. This Bee’s Knees mocktail spritz, inspired by the gin-based classic drink, has lemon, a sweet honey syrup, and is topped off with club soda.
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Brûléed Brie Crostini
Got a broken heart this Valentine's? Have you considered lighting something of theirs on fire? We can't recommend that, but we DO recommend grabbing your kitchen torch to make these crostini. The crunchy sugar topping here that gives way to an oozy slice of brie and sweet jam that we think might just make you feel better.
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