8 Romantic Dinner Ideas for Two That Won’t Break the Bank

Chocolate chess pie

For sheer romance, skip dinner and head straight to dessert. “The best date night meal is dessert and a chocolate chess pie at that,” says Catarah Hampshire, co-owner of Southern Girl Desserts, a dessert company based in Los Angeles. Never heard of one? It’s an old southern recipe and the name is said to have derived from the furniture chest used to store pies and other baked goods to protect them from the elements. The gooey chocolate filling is sure to get the home fires burning.

To make:

• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 5 eggs
• 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 cup melted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup condensed milk
• ½ cup evaporated milk
• store brought pie crust

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Start by combining sugar, flour, salt, and cocoa into a bowl. Beat eggs into bowl one at a time, then add melted butter, vanilla, and milk and mix until smooth. Pour into par baked pie shell (bake shell in oven for 10 minutes before adding mix). Then bake entire pie in oven for one hour or until the filling is set. Cool in fridge for two to three hours and serve cold. Here are some more cheap date night ideas.