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Valentine's Day baking recipes

Few things say 'I love you' like freshly baked treats - win over your sweetheart with our romantic cupcakes, heart-shaped biscuits and ion fruit desserts.

Hidden heart loaf cake

by Becky Excell

Wow your loved ones with this fun hidden heart cake. This gluten-free sponge cake is surprisingly easy to make.

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Persian love cake

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Cupcakes

by The BBC Food team

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Easy lemon drizzle cake

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Salted chocolate cake

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Mary Berry's red velvet cake

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Apricot almond cake with rosewater and cardamom

by Nigella Lawson

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Clementine and almond cake

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Linzer cookies

by Nigella Lawson

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Emergency brownies

by Nigella Lawson

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Valentine cupcakes

by Simon Rimmer

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Pistachio and rose shortbread

by Sanjana Modha

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Macarons

Gooey chocolate fondant puddings

by Mike Robinson

Cannoli

by Angela Hartnett

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Homemade chocolate truffles

by Chantal Coady

Double chocolate cookies

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Easy chocolate cake

by Rachel Manley

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Millionaire's shortbread

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Raspberry amaretti biscuits

by Nadiya Hussain

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Tiramisù piccoli

Mine-all-mine sweet and salty chocolate cookies

by Nigella Lawson

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Dark and sumptuous chocolate cake

by Nigella Lawson

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Raspberry and white chocolate muffins

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Lemon biscuits

by Benjamina Ebuehi

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Perfect chocolate chip cookies

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Easy coffee cupcakes

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Mary Berry's scones

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Chocolate lava cake

by Donal Skehan

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Vegan baked doughnuts with cinnamon sugar

by Sanjana Modha

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Happy heartbreak cake

by Ferne McCann

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Love Monster cake

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Pumpkin and orange kolach

by Olia Hercules

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