These sweet treats are meant to be shared, so you can give someone their cake (ice cream or chocolate) and eat it, too. Here’s a selection of some of the city’s most delicious confections for Valentine’s Day:

It’s worth going out of your way for the incredible cupcakes at Sugar Sweet Sunshine (126 Rivington St., 212-995-1960; www.sugarsweetsunshine.com). Special for Valentine’s Day, they are offering an assortment of mini-cupcakes decorated with candy hearts for $15. Or create your own collection from regular flavors ($1.50 each; $18/dozen) such as Ooey Gooey (chocolate cake with chocolate-almond buttercream) or Lemon Yummy (lemon cake with lemon buttercream). Delivery available Monday through Friday in Manhattan.

For Valentine’s Day, Japan-based Lady M Cake Boutique (41 E. 78th St., 212-452-2222, www.ladymconfections.com) takes cream puffs to new heights of luxury with delicate heart-shaped pate choux filled with either Bavarian or caramel-flavored cream. What makes these substantial pastries superior is that their puffs stay crisp, don’t get soggy, and don’t fall apart when you bite into them. While these are big and satisfying enough to share, you’d better buy at least two ($6 each). Delivery by refrigerated trucks in Manhattan is available for $15.

In addition to its signature artisanal chocolates ($55 a pound), elegant French patisserie Fauchon (442 Park Ave., 212-308-5919, www.fauchon.com) also offers special heart-shaped treats such as the Megeve cake ($40), made with French vanilla meringue and dark chocolate mousse; the “I Love You” Cake ($40), composed of mascarpone mousse, an almond biscuit bottom, and raspberry preserves; and a raspberry tart with cream and fresh raspberries ($35). All serve four to six. Delivery is available in Manhattan for a $12 charge.

Baked (359 Van Brunt St., Brooklyn, 718-222-0345, www.bakednyc.com) offers a different take on the classic red-velvet cake – their red cake flavored with Valrhona chocolate is spiced up with cinnamon buttercream and dotted with red hot candies. (8-inch cake $34; 10-inch cake $40.) Delivery is available in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

The Chocolate Room, (86 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, 718-783-2900), a dessert cafe and retail shop that just opened in Brooklyn, features handmade chocolates by Fritz Knipschildt ($40 a pound). In the cafe, couples can share chocolate fondue for two ($12), or made-to-order spiced molten Valrhona chocolate cake ($7.50).

Jacques Torres, who broke ground in DUMBO with Jacques Torres Chocolate (66 Water St., 718-875-9772), his first chocolate factory, has recently opened his Chocolate Haven in downtown Manhattan (350 Hudson St., 212-414-2462, www.mrchocolate.com). For Valentine’s Day this year, he’s created heart-shaped boxes filled with round truffles in chocolate silk, Kir Royal, and orange white chocolate (six for $8, approximately 20 for $25; shipping by Fed Ex available).

Witty chocolatier Katrina Markoff, creator of Vosges Haut-Chocolats (132 Spring St., 212-625-2929, www.vosgeschocolates.com) named her special Valentine truffles after the characters in “The Great Gatsby,” who lived opulently, but weren’t all that lucky in love. Perhaps it’s the yearning for the unattainable or maybe just their glamour that inspired these sweets: Daisy is made from white chocolate and rose Ruinart champagne, topped with a white rose petal, while Gatsby is Perrier Champagne, dark chocolate, and rose water, topped with a red rose petal (nine-piece box $25; 16-piece box $39).

At Il Laboratorio (95 Orchard St., 212-343-9922, www.laboratoriodelgelato.com), ice-cream maker Jon Snyder has created a rose-petal gelato, infusing a milk base with rose petals. Flecked with bits of real petals, the flavor is slightly aromatic, soft, and very subtle. But for those who believe it’s not Valentine’s Day without chocolate, there’s always dark-chocolate sorbet and gelato ($7.50 a pint). Delivery by overnight shipping is available throughout America; sameday delivery is available in New York City. The gelato is also sold at Dean & Deluca, Grace’s Marketplace, Murray’s Cheese, and Tuller Premium Foods.