Celebrate Valentine's Day with a special Valentine breakfast party that brings family and friends together for a festive morning full of heart shaped treats, pretty decorations, and delicious food. This Valentine's Day breakfast is perfect for making sweet memories in your pajamas!
Quick Look
- 💕 Occasion: Family Valentine's Day celebration
🍴 Menu: Sweet and savory breakfast buffet
🎨 Decor: DIY paper flowers and budget friendly finds
💭 Top Tip: Set up your paper flower backdrop and table the night before so you can enjoy a relaxed morning with your family!
Why You'll Love This Party
- Family friendly celebration. Perfect for couples and kids to enjoy together.
- Budget friendly decor. Use dollar store finds and DIY paper flowers.
- Simple menu. Mix homemade favorites with store bought shortcuts.
- Pajama party vibe. No need to get dressed up for this cozy celebration.
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I love Valentine's Day, and as much as I love celebrating with my sweetie, I also love celebrating as a family. This Valentine's Day Breakfast is the perfect way to celebrate together and share a little love with a special morning party. We set up a beautiful breakfast buffet with all our favorite foods, added some festive decorations like giant paper flowers, and enjoyed a relaxed morning in our pajamas. It was such a fun way to start the day!
If you love this party you might also like our Valentine Breakfast Board, Valentine's Day Tea Party, Valentine's Day Movie Night, or Fondue Date Night.
Valentine Breakfast Menu:
I started with a beautiful buffet filled with sweet and savory options so everyone could find something they loved. Here's what we served:
Sweet Options:
- Mini Pancake Stacks -We love this pancake recipe, double it, or triple it for a crowd. We made mini pancakes and served them in stacks with the cutest Valentine's Day picks.
- Heart Shaped Jelly Donuts -Homemade donuts are such a treat! We made the dough in the bread maker the night before and then cut them into small hearts, fried, and filled with them in the morning. Get our easy bread machine jelly donut recipe here. Or pick up donuts at your favorite bakery.
- Yogurt and Granola Parfaits -These are simple to assemble. We made our homade granola a few days ahead of time, or use your favorite store bought granola. On the morning of the party layer yougurt (plain, vanilla, or your favourite flavor) in the bottom of a small bowl and then layer granola on top. Garnish with a heart shaped strawberry, cut with a small knife or cookie cutter.
- Fresh Strawberries
- Whipped Cream -This is one of those things that is so much better homemade, just whip with some sugar and vanilla. But if you need to you can substitute store-bought, or whipped topping instead.
- Maple Syrup -Real maple syrup is what every pancake breakfast truly deserves.
- Valentine's Day Sprinkles -The kids especially will love this easy addition that makes breakfast feel so much more special.
Savory Options:
- Scrambled Eggs -To make our scrambled eggs fit our Valentine theme we served them up a pretty heart shaped bowl.
- Heart Shaped Breakfast Sausage -look for sausage patties at the grocery store, and after they're cooked use a heart shaped cookie cutter to make them into hearts.
Other great addtions would be bacon, or hash browns. Buy the hashbrown patties, and use a heart shaped cookie cutter to make them into hearts also.
Drinks:
- Pink Hot Chocolate -To make things extra special I made pink hot chocolate. Look for white hot chocolate mix and add a little pink food coloring, or make your own with melted white chocolate, hot milk, and pink food coloring. We served it in a tea pot into heart shaped cups. We found the perfect heart shaped marshmallows and had whipped cream as a garnish too.
- Coffee for the Adults
Paper Flower Backdrop
My very favorite element of the Valentine's Day Breakfast Buffet has to be the amazing paper flower backdrop.
I actually made the flowers last year and had them stored in a plastic bag in the basement. They're so pretty I couldn't bear to throw them out! Find my How To Make Giant Paper Flowers tutorial here, including a video. They're quite easy to make. I used pinks, white, some off white, and some book page papers. Some have a little pink paint added here and there too.
To hang them over the buffet, I hot glued them all to some paper in a kind of swag, and then used command hooks to secure the paper to the wall. Prepare this all the day before, and the next morning it will be all ready and waiting for you.
The giant paper flowers are so pretty, I don't think I want to take them down!
Valentine's Day Table
For the Valentine's Day dining table, I kept it pretty simple.
Table Setting Details:
- Layered Table Runners -I used a pink and white table runner and layere them for texture.
- Milkglass Glass Vases and Flowers -The milkglass was all from thrift stores, and I love how they all match, but are a little diferent. I filled them with some simple pink and white roses and tulips from the grocery store.
- Heart Pates -I used our everyday white plates, but layered some adorable heart plates on top that were a great garage sale find a few years, that I birng out every Valentine's day.
- Wooden Heart Chalkboard Placecards -I picked these up at the dollar store and thought they'd make great placecards for our table.
I wanted to keep things pretty neutral, in keeping with the feel of the room, with just enough festive pink to make it feel like Valentine's Day, but with lots of neutrals too.
Make Ahead Tips
In the Week Before:
- Make the flowers for the backdrop
- Shop for ingredients and flowers
- Make the granola
The Night Before:
- Hang the paper flower backdrop
- Arrange the flowers and set the table
- Make jelly donut dough and store in the fridge overnight
- Make whipped cream and store in the fridge
- Wash strawberries
- Set out serving dishes and utensils
Valentine's Morning:
- Fry the donuts and fill with jelly, or pick up at the bakery
- Cook pancakes and keep warm in 200°F oven
- Cook sausage and cut into heart shapes
- Make scrambled eggs
- Make yougurt parfaits
- Make pink hot chocolate
- Setup the buffet and enjoy
This was such a fun and sweet little family party on Valentine's morning. I hope you're feeling inspired to do something special with your family to celebrate love day together. Whether big or small, make sure to show your loved ones how much they mean to you.
With a special Valentine's Day Breakfast, life really is a party!
Frequently Asked Questions
You can make the paper flower backdrop weeks ahead and store it carefully. The night before, set your table, and prep some food. The morning of, just finishing preparing the food and assembling the buffet.
Store bought donuts work perfectly! Serve regular donuts, or look for special Valentine ones near the holiday at your favorite bakery.
Absolutely! Scale down the menu to your favorite items. A simple spread of heart shaped pancakes, sausage, eggs, and coffee with a few pretty flowers is perfect for a romantic morning.
Try waffles, toast, eggs, hash browns, or fruit slices (watermelon, pineapple). Any food that's thick enough to hold its shape works, use mini heart cookie cutters for smaller items.
Place cooked pancakes on a baking sheet in a 200°F oven. They'll stay warm and fresh while you finish cooking.
Not at all! A heart shaped cookie cutter is helpful but optional. If you don't have one just use a knife. Everything else uses regular kitchen equipment and serving dishes you probably already have.
Yes! Focus on easy items like store bought donuts, and simple finger foods. The heart cookie cutter technique works great for making regular foods feel festive without a lot of extra work.
Coffee for adults, regular milk or chocolate milk for kids, orange juice, and water are all great options. You could also do a strawberry smoothie for a pink drink option.
More Valentine's Day Ideas
If you try anything from this Valentine's Day Breakfast party or any other ideas on my blog, please let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!
Barbara at Mantel and Table says
You are amazing - what a wonderful celebration! Thanks for sharing all your tips. Who knew you could make pink hot chocolate?! 🙂 Another wonderful party!
dnr says
Thanks Sonja, come on over. 😉
Dannyelle