All photographs by Melissa Hom
Balthazar Bakery
80 Spring St., at Crosby St.; 212-965-1785.
L-O-V-E white chocolate mousse cake with fresh raspberries, $30/6 inches (top); Chocolate almond heart with marzipan roses, $40/6 inches (bottom).
Advance orders recommended.
Bespoke Chocolates
6 Extra Pl., nr. Bowery; 212-260-7103.
Heart-shaped dark chocolate box with ten chocolates and customizable message, $50.
Advance orders recommended.
Bond Street Chocolate 63 E. 4th St., nr. Bowery; 212-677-5103. Box of four hearts filled with Venezuelan 72 percent dark ganache and milk chocolate filled with spicy caramel, $9.
Bond Street Chocolate 63 E. 4th St., nr. Bowery; 212-677-5103. Large patterned hearts, available in dark, milk, or white chocolate, $10 each.
Butter Lane 123 E. 7th St., nr. Ave A; 212-677-2880. “Box Of Chocolates,” including sea-salt chocolate, hazelnut, chocolate raspberry, chocolate peanut butter, and basic chocolate, $16/6.
Eleni’s Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Ave., at 15th St.; 212-255-6804. Animal hearts, $1.95-$4.95 each; Heart favors, $1.95 to $4.95 each.
Eleni’s Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Ave., at 15th St.; 212-255-6804. Clockwise from top left: XOXO cookies, $35.50/14 cookies (four XOs, four tiny hearts, six small hearts); Conversation hearts, $35.50/8 cookies; Classic sweet hearts, $58.50/16 cookies; Love letters, $58.50/16 cookies or $100 for customized letters.
Jacques Torres Multiple locations. Chocolate molded heart-shaped box with bonbons, $60.
Jacques Torres Multiple locations. Chocolate kissing game, $36 (top); Loves me loves me not box, $19.20 (bottom left); Heart-shaped box of bonbons, $12 for small, $50 for large (bottom right).
L.A. Burdick 5 E. 20th St., nr. Broadway; 212-796-0143. Velvet heart set, including chocolate bonbons and assorted chocolates, $48.
Liddabit Sweets Available online. Lollipops, $2 each, three for $5 (top); heart jellies, $10 for box of eight (bottom).
Liddabit Sweets Available online. Bonbons filled with salted caramel ganache and Amedei No. 9 75 percent ganache, $15 for five, $28 for ten.
Lulu Cake Boutique 112 Eighth Ave., nr. 16th St.; 212-242-5858. Sweetheart Oreos, $3 each (top); Valentine’s Day cupcakes in red velvet, dark chocolate, and vanilla, $40/dozen (bottom).
Lulu Cake Boutique 112 Eighth Ave., nr. 16th St.; 212-242-5858. Edible “Box of Chocolates” cake (available in strawberry basil buttercream, raspberry chocolate truffle, and French vanilla buttercream), $100.
Magnolia Bakery Multiple locations. Red-velvet whoopie pies, $3.25 each.
Magnolia Bakery Multiple locations. Sweet sayings cupcakes (top), $3.50 each; Valentine’s Day cupcakes (bottom), $3.25 each.
La Maison du Chocolat Multiple locations. Heart of ganache, $24/6 pieces, $35/10 pieces, $68/20 pieces, $140/46 pieces.
Max Brenner 841 Broadway, nr. 13th St.; 212-388-0030. I love you favorites box, $6.50; Love me love me not bonbons, $11.50; Love bonbons, $12.90.
Tribeca Treats 94 Reade St., nr. W. Broadway; 212-571-0500. Conversation heart cookies, $3 each.
Tribeca Treats 94 Reade St., nr. W. Broadway; 212-571-0500. Hugs & Kisses cupcake box, $9.50 (top); Man tin, $25 (bottom).
Trois Pommes Patisserie 260 Fifth Ave., nr. Garfield Pl., Park Slope; 718-230-3119. Valentine’s Day cupcakes, $4 (top); heart-shaped whoopie pie, $2.50 (bottom).
Trois Pommes Patisserie 260 Fifth Ave., nr. Garfield Pl., Park Slope; 718-230-3119. Butter cookies, $2 each.
