They say the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach; with these delicious gifts, you will be sure to show that special someone just how much you care. We have handpicked our favourite foodie gifts that are packed full of love (and delicious goodies) - cheese (for two), chocolates (one for me; one for you), and chilies (to spice things up) as well as some limited edition Valentine’s Day gifts and gadgets that we just know your special someone will love as much as they love you. Browse our 2023 Valentine’s Day collection of contemporary and classic gifts - and make sure to check out number 3 and 12 - we may just have to buy these for ourselves if our bae doesn’t get the hint… #SelfLove.

Cheese + Chocolate Gift Hamper

Now, it may be a little cheesy but this is the only cheddar you will ever need in your life - and what better way to show someone you love them, than by giving them the two C’s of romance? Cheese and Chocolate. And this letterbox gift (£25, Quickes) is the perfect combination of sweet and savory. Delivered straight through their door - your loved one will receive three delicious Quicke’s cheese, Peters Yard Crackers, and Fruit Kitchen Preserves to enjoy alongside before finishing with Love Cocoa Chocolate.

Valentine Chocolate Lips

We have fallen head over heels for these luscious lips from Soko Patisserie (£15, Soko Patisserie). Shipping from the 6th of February 2023, to be delivered in time for Valentine’s Day, these limited edition lips contain only the finest and freshest ingredients, hand-selected by Soko’s very own Bake Off: The Professionals finalist, Bharat Chandegra. You can expect each one to melt in the mouth, with a sensory explosion of flavour - ranging from Passion Fruit & Salted Caramel, Pistachio, and a tangy Chocolate Orange.

Funky Edition Premium Classic Zester

We are obsessed with Microplane’s new zesters (£25.95, Harts of Stur) - which come in five different limited series, made for those to strut the culinary catwalk, in style this Valentine’s Day: Black Marble, for those with a darker side, Skull, for those with a deadly side, Ombre, for those with a colourful side (our favourite), Tropical, for those with a hot side and Safari, for those with an adventurous side. We love their attention to detail and the ability to capture personality in the equipment which allows your own personality to shine through your creations. Mix and Match the style most suited to your loved one. Each one is based on the iconic premium clasic which has 400 micro-teeth making it perfect for citrus fruits, hard cheese, chocolate, ginger, garlic and nutmeg without tearing, shredding or blocking. A must-have tool for every kitchen.

Amore Truffle Selection Box

Pretty in pink, this 24-piece truffle selection from Love Cocoa contains their best-selling decadent truffles including Pink Gin, Raspberry Champagne, Milk Champagne, and Salted Caramel; have been lovingly made to tantalise the tastebuds with each and every bite, and trust us… they do. But not only do they taste good, but they do good, too - each product is free from palm oil, vegetarian-friendly, and slavery-free, and comes beautifully decorated in plastic-free packaging; if that wasn’t enough to get your heart racing this Valentine’s Day - Love Cocoa plant a tree for every bar, tube and nibble sold - so with each Amore Truffle Selection Box (£35, Love Cocoa) sold, one tree is planted. Now that is giving out major loving vibes.

Heart-Shaped Fresh Chilli Jam

Spice things up by giving the chilli lover in your life this beautifully addictive, sticky-sweet chilli jam which just smoulders with a gentle heat from a fistful of fresh red chillies. Adorned in a heart-shaped jar - you are sure to make anyone’s heart flutter this Valentine’s Day, which can be repurposed for your own homemade spice or herb mixes or even used on your office desk or dressing table. Already with a variety of awards under its belt, it’s no wonder that this Fresh Chilli Jam (£6.80, Tracklements) is a favourite among chefs and foodies alike and will surely set your lover’s heart on fire, too. Its versatility means it can start a spicy samba when seconded with fish, meats, cheese, veggies and more. It was love at first taste.

Double Chocolate Ganache

Dive in headfirst to Pots & Co’s newest flavour - Double Chocolate Ganache (£1.50, Sainsburys). Aptly described as giving you “desserts your taste buds deserve”, these delicious pots, crafted by Michelin-trained chefs, are definitely something your loved one (and you) deserve this Valentine’s Day. Each pot is packed with a rich and decadent chocolate ganache that has been double-layered with Colombian chocolate to give you a little pot of heaven that just screams romance. If you want to be even more romantic, grab a pot with two spoons - if you want to be more realistic, take a pot each!

Valentine’s Chocolate Hamper

Treat your loved one to something truly special this Valentine’s Day with Choc Affair’s indulgent Chocolate Hamper (£19.95, Choc Affair), which comes complete with enough treats for two, including bars of Blueberry Milk Chocolate, Raspberry & Rose Milk Chocolate, Peach Melba Milk Chocolate, and Rhubarb Milk Chocolate. To add an even more special touch of warmth, Choc Affair’s hamper also includes a decadent dark hot chocolate and a ‘With Love’ message bar to really show just how much you really care!

‘With Love’ Thistle Shortbread Tin

Not only does this gorgeous With Love’ tin (£11, Walkers Shortbread) contain some of the best (IMO) shortbreads in the world, but its also a beautiful keepsake tin that can be used to keep your loved ones mementos in, long after the shortbread has gone. Inside you can expect to find 18 scrumptious buttery thistle shortbread rounds to enjoy with your favourite cuppa and favourite person.

Limited Edition Vegetarian Umami Ramen Kit

World cuisine experts, The Cookaway, and Yondu Vegetable Umami have created the ideal Valentine’s experience. Their Limited Edition Vegetarian Umami Ramen Kit (£50, for 2 people, The Cookaway) is the perfect way to share your love of food with the ones you love. Get down and dirty in the kitchen as you learn how to create soy-marinated eggs, a rich umami 1-hour broth, and the choice of receiving dried noodles or crafting your own hand-rolled noodles as you create your very own nourishing bowl of comfort that has both an adventure into flavour, and texture and bringing you closer to the one you love all rolled into one bowl.

Gelato Cakes and Heart-Shaped Pinguinos

Now you can treat your loved ones to the award-winning, luxury gelato at home (collection in London or Nationwide Delivery) with Badiani Gelato. Their Heart-Shaped Pinguinos (£5 for one, £8 for two) are the must have cute and delicious gift, created with Badiani’s signature Buontalenti flavour gelato encased in either a white chocolate or white chocolate and strawberry shell. Or go all out, and show that someone special you’re nuts about them with a full pistachio or hazelnut chocolate gelato cake (£35, Badiani Gelato) Each artisanal, heart-shaped cake is handcrafted with creamy, Buontalenti gelato on a light sponge base covered with your chosen flavour of cream - however. how much of it you’re willing to share will be the ultimate test of love!

Valentine’s Day Cake Card

This card and cake combo is the perfect two-in-one gift. To make it extra special you can choose from an extensive selection of card designs, fill out your own personal message and choose from a long list of cakes, treats and tipples to include inside - with incredible free from slices and seasonal specials: they limited edition Strawberry Sweetheart Slice is a deliciously rich chocolate sponge with a dreamy strawberry buttercream and pretty sugared hearts on top. From £10.50 (sponge.co.uk)

Valentines Chocolate Truffle Cake Selection

This beautifully presented pink and gold gift box contains nine hand decorated chocolate truffle cakes (£15.95, Original Cake Co). Each cake is made from a combination of The Original Cake Co.s infamous chocolate cake and fudge brownie to make the ultimate luxurious bite. They then hand finish each one with sugar hearts, caramel, chocolate curls, rolls and a milk and white chocolate drizzle making the perfect gift for any chocolate lover that not only tastes amazing, but looks it too!

Monty Bojangles Valentine’s Day Bouquet

The curious chocolate brand (with over 38 Great Taste Awards) - Monty Bojangles have created a beautiful Valentine’s Gift that is sure to delight your loved ones. Their delicious and exquisitely beautiful bouquet (£6.99, Amazon) contains 12 of their luxury individually wrapped chocolate truffles coated in cocoa (Choccy Scoffy) and tied up neatly in a bow. You can even personalise the box with the ‘To’ and ‘From’ spaces to make it even more extra special.

Be My Valentine Flapjacks

What could be sweeter, for your sweet, than a giant piece of homemade flapjack surrounded by other delectable and unusual goodies? The Be My Valentine (also available in ‘Love You’) Gift Box (£50, Flapjackery) contains a giant slab of buttery delicious Millionaire Flapjack (equivalent to four individual pieces) inscribed in white chocolate and then surrounded by eight other pieces of flapjacks in your choice of over 26 flavours, including: Peanut Fudge, Clotted Cream, Milk Chocolate Orange, Florentine, Lemon Drizzle, Caramel Latte.

Valentine's Couples Sharing Hamper

Luxury food and drink hamper brand, Hampers.com - who champion British products have the best of the best, for only your best this Valentines. Their Valentine’s Couples Sharing Hamper (£52, hampers.com) is the perfect gift to share. Coming packaged in a beauitfully chic willow tray you will find six delicious delights including an elegantly light Tenuta Sconta Prosecco Rosé, English Fine Tea, Macarons, Apple and Custard Biscuits and a Chocolate Honeycomb Bar.

You're my Lobster Macarons

Returning again this year, the You're my Lobster Macarons, from Emma Dodi (£25 for 5, Emma Dodi Cakes) are the perfect Valentine’s Gift for any fine food or Friends lover. Also available in a ‘Love’ collection - each macaron is carefully handmade, with beautiful images on both sides. Flavours include Strawberry and Cream, and Chocolate Hazelnut; are both gluten-free and suitable for vegetarians.

Firelli Hot Sauce Trio Gift Pack

All natural, Firelli Hot Sauce - the world’s first global Italian hot sauce has created a Hot Sauce Trio Gift Pack £15.99, Amazon) that is sure to spice things up this Valentine’s Day! Firelli has three hot sauces in its delicious set, Firelli, Firelli Truffle, and Firelli Extra Hot - all gluten-free and vegan - and made from all-natural Italian ingredients, handcrafted in Parma. All you need is just a drop to heat things up; you can drizzle on everything from pizza and salads, to seafood and meats.

Guylian Chocolate Hearts

If you know someone who loves the classic Guylian’s iconic sea shells, then why not treat them to something extra special this Valentine’s Day? Guylian’s Belgian Chocolate Marbled Hearts are filled with their infamous and delicious roasted hazelnut praline and come in either a 42g box (containing four hearts - £1.20, Lidl) or 105g (containing 10 hearts - £4, Morrisons). The question is… who will you give your heart to?

‘Couples Coorie in’ Gift Box

This ‘Couples Coorie in’ Gift Box (£115, Baxters of Scotland) by Baxters of Scotland has been designed with a cold winter’s day in mind. Cosy up with your loved one with two of Baxter’s most-loved soups: Cullen Skink and Venison served in delicate Tain Pottery Scottish Thistle Glenaldie bowls - which have been handcrafted and individually painted in the heart of the Highlands, Afterward, enjoy a nice, warm cuppa in a set of Tain Pottery (Scottish Thistle) Glenaldie tea mugs. What more could you ask for?

CBD Chocolate Valentine's Bundle

Choose a Valentine’s Day treat with a twist with Cheerful Buddha’s CBD Chocolate Valentine’s Bundle £35, Cheerful Buddha). You and your boo can indulge in a selection of their most-delicious chocolatey treats that not only make a happy belly - but also a happy mind. Each bundle comes with all three flavours of Cheerful Buddha’s CBD chocolate: Natural, Orange, and Mint along with its Cacao Bliss Hot Chocolate, and Lion’s Mane Coffee. Their unique chocolate recipes create luxurious bars that are rich and velvety without the CBD compromising on the taste.

Blush Chocolate & Red Velvet Hearts

Coming in a box of two - these delicious Blush Chocolate and Red Velvet Hearts (£18, The Hummingbird Bakery) are the perfect way to show someone you care. This gorgeous treat created by London’s best-loved American-style bakery, The Hummingbird Bakery consists of two pearlised white chocolate shells filled with red velvet sponge and cream cheese and finished with pink and ivory pearls and gold leaf. We know you’re not supposed to break hearts on Valentine’s Day - but this one is worth it.

Personalised 850g Cadbury Dairy Milk Heart Bar

Size doesn’t matter - unless we are talking about chocolate - and in that case… the bigger the better. And this Personalised Cadbury Dairy Milk Heart Bar (£15, MenKind) which weighs in at 850g is enough to make anyone blush. We love the personalised option that allows you to add over three lines of up to 15 characters (although no naughty words are allowed!) this delicious bar, comes complete with a special heart icon, making it an excellent gift for any chocolate-lover.

Joe & Seph’s Valentine’s Day Gourmet Popcorn Selection Box

Get the Valentine’s Day party popping’ with Joe & Seph’s Valentine’s Day Gourmet Popcorn Selection Box (£15, MenKind). Gourmet snack manufacturers Joe and Seph's have brought together their amazing handmade, air-popped crunchy popcorn, delicious chocolate, and flavoury know-how to produce a selection box of three snacks that just scream ‘I Love You!’. Their Valentine’s Day Gourmet Popcorn Selection Box contains 2 packs of rose chocolate popcorn, 2 packs of white chocolate and strawberry popcorn, and 2 packs of caramel macchiato and whisky popcorn.

Personalised Tony’s Chocolonely

Not only do Tony’s Chocolonely bars taste amazing - but they do good too. Tony’s is a change-maker chocolate brand, striving to make the chocolate industry 100% slave-free, only ever using Fairtrade cocoa without ever compromising on the taste or quality. And this Valentine’s Day you can add cute messages on a variety of their best-loved bars to show that special someone just how much you care. £6, Tonys Chocolonely), just pick from 10 different flavours, design your wrapper and you’re good to go!

Chunky Chocolates from FATSO

These flavour-packed dark chocolates are super chunky and offer you more in every bite. Available in three different flavours (£5.95, SoFATSO) is the perfect gift for the ultimate chocoholic, who loves the finer things in life. Flavours include: Morn’n Glory: this breakfast-inspired combination delivers a dark chocolate bar with 60% Colombian dark chocolate, filled with crunchy cornflakes with a side of toast and orange marmalade. Home Run: FATSO’s ode to the humble baseball game; bumper chunks of salted pretzel, whole almonds, and honeycomb wrapped in 60% dark chocolate and Nan's Stash: 70% cacao is packed with crunchy peanuts, chewy toffee, and buttery digestive biscuits from Nan’s secret stash.

Belgian Chocolate Ganache and Praline Hearts Selection

Enjoy a whole host of delicious chocolates filled with a variety of tangy fruit ganache. This Luxury Belgian Chocolate Hearts Selection Gift Box (£35, Farhi) contains a mix of white chocolate with grapefruit ganache; milk chocolate with passion fruit ganache; milk chocolate with rhubarb ganache; dark chocolate with pear ganache and dark chocolate with lime ganache. Beautifully presented in a luxury gift box, this selection will tickle every chocolate lover's taste buds.

The Valentine’s Day Cheese Selection - Date Night

The ideal date includes fabulous chemistry and harmony; this varied but beautifully balanced selection of cheese in The Valentine’s Day Cheese Selection - Date Night (£48, Fine Cheese) will sweep you off your feet with a whirlwind of flavours for your own perfect date night. Coming complete with three delicious kinds of cheese: Baron Bigod ‘I Love You’ - a fabulously full-flavoured Brie-style cheese, Burts’s Blue Heart - a rich, buttery, sweet and gentle blue. and The Fine Cheese Co. Cave-Aged Cheddar - a cloth-wrapped, hand-made Dorset cave-aged Cheddar which is fruity and tangy with Miller’s Elements Eart Crackers and The Fine Cheese Co. Quince Fruit for Cheese to bring it all together.

Pure Filth Bundle

If anything screamed Valentine’s Day to me - it’s this. Soft, gooey ‘home-baked’ cookies, with Bice cream bites to finish off, all lovingly (or begrudgingly) shared with the one you love. What more could you ask for? Doughlicious have absolutely nailed this Pure Filth Bundle (£25.99, Doughlicious), a combination of dangerously delicious desserts. Each bundle contains 6 boxes and 1 stackable bag: Dulce de Leech Dough•Chi, Chocolate Truffle Dough•Chi, and Birthday Cake Dough•Chi, Red Velvet & White Chocolate Cookie Dough, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Salted Caramel & Dark Chocolate Cookie Dough and a bag of Chocolate Chip Snackable Cookie Dough! Give in to temptation and get filthy with this one.

Valentine’s Box - Sakuraco

Celebrate the foodie in your life with Sakuraco - the authentic Japanese food box. Available as a one-off or monthly subscription, each box has 20 items that focus on seasonal, artisanal and locally sourced treats, snacks, teas and even elegant dinnerware. This incredible box allows you to travel to Japan from the comfort of your own home and try curated and must-eat treats celebrated by the Japanese. The Valentine’s Box includes Chocolate Mochi, Kinako Dumplings, Red Ginger Squid Bites, a Kinchidori Soup Bowl and 16 other beautiful love-inspired treats.

Valentine’s Dough Bite Box

Crosstown has released these delicious limited-edition dough bits that are sure to make anyone’s day. Filled with three unique flavours: Rose & Lychee, Chocolate & Cherry Kirsch, and Strawberry Liqueur that comes complete with a Baileys custard. The boxes come in a set of three (£8) or fifteen (£35, Crosstown) and are available for nationwide delivery between the 10th-14th February with the option of adding specialty drinks and Crosstown chocolates for an extra sweet celebration. They also come in vegan and alcohol-free versions.

Love Selection Box

If you’re looking to impress this Valentine’s Day then this fine collection of flavoured chocolate-covered liquorice from gourmet Danish confectioners is the way to go. The Love Selection Box £42, Lakrids by Bulow) has everything your heart could possibly desire. It contains both popular and classic flavours alongside limited-edition flavours, all made with premium ingredients. Some of the flavours you can expect to find within the beautiful heart-designed box are Strawberry & Cream, Fruity Caramel, Milkshake, Dark & Sea Salt, and Salty Caramel.

Saicho & The Chocolatier Bundle

The luxurious, non-alcoholic, single-origin sparkling tea brand, Saicho, has partnered with The Chocolatier, who is known for supplying their incredible artisan chocolates to Michelin-starred restaurants and has come up with the perfect bundle for Valentine’s Day (£25.99, Saicho Drinks). An unconventional pairing - sparkling tea and chocolate - but one that goes incredibly well together. After all, they do say opposites attract. Each Saicho tea has been expertly paired through its distinctive flavour notes with single-origin dark chocolate, creating a beautifully harmonious taste experience. For example Vanuta Malekula Dark Chocolate perfectly paired with Saicho Sparkling Darjeeling; 70% Peruvian Dark Chocolate perfectly paired with Saicho Sparkling Jasmine. For the best experience to taste, it is recommended that you allow a piece of chocolate to melt on your palate before indulging in the preferred sparkling tea pairing.

The Best Valentine's Day Foodie Gifts for 2023