help with valentines special desserts

You have a freezer and a sheet pan you can make sorbet.

Valentine's day has always been a cheesy dessert kinda day. Heart shape this, heart shape that. Get yourself a good heart shaped cookie cutter. :)

Heart shaped vol au vents with berries and pastry cream inside, heart shaped cakes, etc.

Warm flourleess chocolate cakes with ice cream always sold well for me.

How much labor are you willing to put into it?

You have a freezer and a sheet pan you can make sorbet.

Ok Kuan,
I'll bite.
And don't give me granita.:D :lol:
pan

You just have to scrape the frozen part, stir it up, freeze, scrape and stir again. Every few minutes.

Too Bad About The Chocolate.

I was going to suggest heart-shaped chocolate Pavlovas, decorated with chocolate-dipped strawberries, sliced appropriately.

Ah, well.....:(

Kuan,
Prince Sorbetto just turned over in his grave:D :D
I was wanting something involved with twirling around in the snow with this sheet pan:D ;)
Well, you made King Granita happy:lips:

Well, if you drill a hole in the freezer door, attach a stirring device through the hole and get a kitchen slave to stand over it cranking the device for a few hours :).

Well, with the weather we've been getting up here, it's certainly feasible to send someone outside with a hotel pan, the sorbet mix and a couple of spatulas and send them out to stir for an hour.

Old Standby

Whenever I'm in a pinch, I go to an old standby and avoid new territory and taking risks (I do my risk taking and experimenting on customers on weeknights). Valentines day is one of those times because you can almost guarantee it will be a hectic shift and the easier something flows off the line the better.
Something that comes to mind are little cream puff pyramids. Perfect for two because they wind up large even with small cream puffs and they can be completely assembled ahead of time. Take them out of the fridge about 20 minutes before you intend to serve them. Choux paste is one of those versitile recipes every chef should utilize. Very consistent results without any pastry making skill.
The very cheesy and predictable thing to do would be to make a heart shaped dessert. This is precisely why you should NOT do that. Instead build a nice pyramid with 10 cream puffs(6 then 3 then 1) The filling and cream you use to hold it together have endless combinations only limited to what you can squeeze through a pastry bag. Chocolate with hazelnut and Gran Marnier is a favorite. Make a nice spun sugar spiral for garnish, sprinkle with 10x and tell your chef he could charge them 10 euros! The visual effect is tremendous.
I've made huge ones for banquets to dazzling effect, watching 100 people devour a mountain of different flavor cream puffs.
One cup of flour, one cup of milk, 4 oz. butter and a healthy pinch of salt will make you 40 little ones, 4 orders worth. Whatever you fill and garnish them with will really determine the cost. Anyway, the point is: Go with something you feel comfortable with, something you can attack with confidence. Not some cock-a-mamee idea like mine from the internet!

try dessert for two!

make up a dessert:
chocolate flourless cake with raspberry coulis adorned with two strawberries and your liquid chocolate dipping sauce, two glasses of champagne with chamboard (kir royal) (or exotic tea for two) and you have a killer valentines dessert. No hearts, just sharing chocolate fun!

a tuile with scoops of milk chocolate mousse, white chocolate raspberry mousse and dark chocolate mousse, two espresso martini shots.( or two espresso):roll:

I have 2 valentines desserts his year, they are simple, everyone knows them. I just used some loooooove terminology to write them and suposely aphrodisiak ingrediants.

Forbiden warm apple pie, almond crumble and vanilla ice cream.

Intense chocolate cake with melting heart, passion fruit coulis and wipping cream.

Let me know what you think guys.

Our current valentines day dessert menu consists of:

Champagne toast with raspberries & chocolate truffles.

House-prepared custard with lavender seed, meringue cookie, raspberries.

Passionfruit gelatto drizzled with raspberry coulis, fresh berries, and a pastry "straw".

Chocolate ganache cake drizzled with mango & raspberry coulis, garnished with fresh berries

Just the act of writing that prompted me to make that very dessert for Friend Wife.

It's nice to know that somebody is benefittting from these forums. :lol: :lol: