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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide

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Here are a few of our favorite Valentine's Day products for the sweet people in your life.

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Beeswax Candles

Give the gift of the warmth and health of the hive with this great selection of natural beeswax candles made especially for Valentine’s Day from Big Dipper Wax Works. Choose from aromatherapy sprays and a wide selection of candles shaped and scented for Valentine’s Day.   

Tulip Bouquets

Tulips brighten your Valentine’s Day and indicate that spring is near. Our tulips are grown locally in Mount Vernon and are available in a variety of lovely colored 5-stem bouquets.

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Foaming Baths

Calm the senses, leave your skin silky smooth, and balance your spirit with Aura Cacia aromatherapy foaming bath products in fragrances such as relaxing lavender, sweet orange, or meditating cedarwood. Aura Cacia products feature nourishing jojoba oil, soothing coconut oil, and essential oils.

Delicious Co-op Valentine’s Day Treats 

Finish your Valentine’s Day meal with our housemade bakery items. These specialty items are only available for a limited time around Valentine’s Day and frequently sell out. 

Bleeding Heart

The Bleeding Heart is a moist chocolate cake with a tart raspberry filling covered in a dark chocolate ganache. This vegan cake is sold in a serving for two to end your Valentine’s Day meal on a sweet note.

Vegan Bleeding Heart Valentine's Day Dessert
gluten-free storm cloud cake from the coop bakery is layers of chocolate cake layered with raspberry filling and vanilla whipped creama

Storm Cloud Cake

Our favorite gluten-free chocolate cake gets some raspberry love for Valentine’s Day. The gluten-free chocolate cake is filled and topped with raspberry and finished with a creamy mascarpone frosting.

Raspberry Cream Roll

This light, airy cake is rolled with a fresh raspberry filling and frosted with a sweet, tangy cream cheese frosting. And, it’s gluten free! This popular dessert is a delicious way to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

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I Heart Chocolate Cake & You

For the chocolate lover in your life, we have a heart-shaped chocolate cake. Our dark chocolate cake is frosted with dark chocolate ganache and decorated for Valentine’s Day with buttercream accents.

The Co-op’s wine manager has selected some special bottles of bubbly to cheer your Valentine. If sparkling wine isn’t for you, we are featuring the Floating Rock Zinfandel from Washington and locally crafted Honey Moon’s Raspberry Mead. Honey Moon’s Raspberry Mead is a blend of mead from blackberry honey and raspberry wine both produced in Whatcom County. It has distinct berry aromas and a tart finish and is especially good paired with cheeses and desserts.

Valdo Prosecco Brut Rosé

The Valdo rosé is a perfect combination of barely off-dry and creamy in the mouth with enticing suggestions of Pink Lady apple, rose hip, salmonberry, Rainier cherry, and kiwi.

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Canals & Nubiola Brut Cava

This succulent sparkler is medium-bodied, crisp, and clean. If you are looking for a fun Valentine's Day cocktail try this Cava in a French 75.

French 75 Cocktail Recipe

French 75 Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce Aloo Gin
  • 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice  
  • 1/2 ounce simple syrup
    • In a small saucepan, combine 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water and bring to a boil. Simmer the mixture over moderate heat until the sugar dissolves.
  • Ice
  • 4 ounces chilled Canals & Nubiola Brut Cava 

In a cocktail shaker, combine the gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Fill the shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled flute and top with the cava.

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Made with Love in the Co-op Bakery

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The Co-op bakery team makes every recipe by hand—cracking every egg, decorating every item, and packaging every dessert to make each treat as beautiful as it is delicious.

Like all our housemade sweets and savories, every syrup, frosting, ganache, and embellishment is 100% free of artificial colors, flavors, and GMOs.

Valentine's Day bakery orders accepted through Monday, February 11.

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Bleeding Heart

two small square chocolate cakes with hearts on top with roses and forks

Our perennial Valentine’s Day (or any day) favorite. Moist, scratch-baked chocolate cake filled with our housemade raspberry sauce made with local berries, enrobed in vegan housemade chocolate ganache, and finished with a chocolate drizzle.

It is sure to capture you or your valentine’s heart.

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Like all the housemade sweets and savories from our bakery, every syrup, frosting, ganache, and embellishment is 100% free of artificial colors, flavors, and GMOs.

Local raspberries and fair trade chocolate are the perfect combo.

It's vegan. Really. We swear.

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Two Hearts Cheesecake

mini cheesecake for two

An adorable rich and creamy vanilla mini cheesecake decorated with two raspberry sauce hearts.

Beware! Due to extreme deliciousness you may want to buy two to ensure sharing.

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This gluten-free cheesecake features local dairy and eggs. The raspberries are from Barbie's Berries in Ferndale!

To maximize flavor and freshness, we make our delicious gluten-free graham crust in house from scratch.

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I Heart You & Chocolate Cake

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A perfect dessert for sharing with a valentine.

Our unabashedly delicious chocolate cake is covered with our decadent housemade chocolate ganache and beautifully decorated for a love-inspired day.

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Colored icings are created in-house using plant-based, all-natural products that are 100% free of corn syrup and synthetic dyes.

Made with fair trade chocolate and organic flour, sugar, and eggs.

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Storm Cloud Cake & Cosmic Cupcakes

gluten-free storm cloud cake from the coop bakery is layers of chocolate cake layered with raspberry filling and vanilla whipped creama

Storm Cloud Cake has irresistible layers of gluten-free chocolate cake with raspberry filling and vanilla whipped cream.

gluten-free and vegan cosmic cupcakes are delicious yellow cake festively decorated to suit every season

Cosmic Cupcakes are dreamy vegan and gluten-free delights colorfully adorned by the Co-op bakery team to suit every season. 

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Raspberry Vanilla Cheesecake & Chocolate Pot de Crème

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Our New York style cheesecake—kissed with hints of vanilla and raspberry—when paired with Chocolate Pot de Crème is dessert perfection!

Both irresistible treats are gluten-free.

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What is chocolate pot de crème? It’s not mousse, it’s not cake, it’s a melt-in-your-mouth chocolate dream come true!

The bakery team is skilled at hand-decorating and can fulfill nearly any heart's desire with a custom order.

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Online Bakery Ordering

Order cakes, cupcakes, and more online from the Co-op bakery and choose to pick up your order at either of our stores.

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Baked from Scratch with a Dash of Whimsy

The Co-op Bakery is ready to delight with traditional bakery treats, beautiful custom creations, and heavenly tasting allergen-free sweets and savories. Our talented bakers love a challenge, so dream big!

crustless pumpkin pie with whipped cream

Entertaining? The Co-op makes it easy!

It’s time for year-end celebrations, and the Co-op bakery and deli are here to make entertaining a breeze! Last day to order for New Year’s Eve is Wednesday, Dec. 28.

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