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Valentine
Recipes
In honor of St. Valentine we've compiled kids
Valentine recipes. Valentine's day is February 14th and it is a day to
show loved ones you care. Chocolates, flowers, cards, balloons are all
common Valentine's day gifts. The holiday originated by someone who
indeed was named St. Valentine. After being imprisoned he sent notes
signed, from your Valentine to his love. He was also martyred on
February 14th hence why we celebrate on this particular day.
To My
Valentine,
Recipes for Giving
Chocolate Kiss Cupcakes
Homemade cake mix or store bought cake mix
Chocolate kisses candy, unwrapped
Frosting
Make cake mix according to direction. Place muffin liners in muffin
pan. Pour dough into each cup and place an unwrapped chocolate kiss in
the middle of each cupcake. Bake according to directions. Allow to cool
and frost. Your valentine will find a yummy hidden kiss inside their
cupcake.
Heart Cupcakes
This is an easy way to make a Valentine recipe for your friend. Making
heart shape cupcakes can be made simply by using large marbles or tin
foil wrapped up in a marble size ball. Before placing cake mix into
cupcake liners. Place a marble ball on the outside of the liner. This
will shape the top into a heart shape.
Homemade Chocolate Kiss
½ Cup butter
5 cups marshmallows or 40 large marshmallows
6 Cups crispy rice cereal
6 oz. Package of chocolate chips
Funnels of desired size
In microwave safe bowl add butter, marshmallows and chocolate chips.
Melt in microwave several minutes until chocolate and marshmallows are
completely melted. Stirring occasionally. Place rice cereal into large
bowl and pour chocolate mixture over top. Stir to coat evenly. Cool
slightly so you can handle the mixture. Butter inside of large funnels.
Press warm rice mixture into funnel and allow to cool. Place upside
down and unmold from funnel. Wrap in plastic or tin foil. Write a
little note to your Valentine on a long strip of paper and wrap up with
the paper sticking out of the top.
Cookie Bouquet
Sugar cookie dough
Sucker sticks
Frosting
Prepare sugar cookie dough according to directions. Cut out dough into
heart or flower shapes with a cookie cutter. Place a sucker stick into
each cookie. Bake according to directions. Allow to cool and frost. To
give to your Valentine place cookies on the stick in a vase. Tie with a
bow and attach a Valentine note.
Pink Divinity
2 2/3 cups sugar
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup
water
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 to 2 drops red food coloring
In a saucepan add sugar, corn
syrup and water. Cook on medium and stir until sugar is dissolved. Turn
to low and continue cooking without stirring until a candy thermometer
reads 260 degrees. (you may need an adult's help with this step)
Meanwhile in a mixing bowl add 2 egg whites. Beat on high until stiff
peaks form. Once candy thermometer reads 260 degrees add the hot
mixture to the egg whites while mixing. Add vanilla and red food
coloring. Continue to mix until thickens. Lay out a sheet of waxed
paper and drop candy by spoonfuls making mounds. Let cool.
Red Rice
Treats
Prepare rice krispies treats from a recipe and add red food coloring.
Spread into a 13x9 pan and cool. With a heart cookie cutter cut rice
krispies out. This is a simple and easy kids recipe they can make for
their friends this Valentine's day.
Valentine Oatmeal
Cookies
These cookies are spotted with Red (Craisins or dried cranberries) and
white chocolate chips. This makes an easy Kids Valentine recipes.
2/3 Cup butter
2/3 Cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 1/2 Cups flour
1 1/2 Cups oats
1 6 ounce package of Craisins dried cranberries
1 Cup white chocolate chips
In mixing bowl cream together butter and brown sugar. Add in eggs,
baking soda and salt. Mix together then add flour. Mix until well
blended. Stir in white chocolate chips and Craisins. Preheat oven to
375 degrees. Roll into small balls and place on a cookie sheet. Bake
for 10 minutes until golden brown.
White and
Red Sandwich Cookies
Oreo cookies or sandwich cookies
white candy coating such as Wilton Candy melts
Red sprinkles
Melt white candy coating in microwave several minutes stirring
occasionally until melted completely. Dip cookies into white candy then
sprinkle with red sprinkles. Allow to dry on a sheet of wax paper. To
deliver this Valentine recipe make a stack of several cookies and wrap
up with plastic wrap. Tie a bow and add a note if you'd like.
Breakfast
Valentine Recipes
Love
Potion Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1 small carton of yogurt
1/2 Cup ice cubes
1 cup apple juice
Place
strawberries, raspberries and juice in blender. Blend several seconds.
If you would like a thicker smoothie add more fruit or for a drinkable
smoothie add 1/4 Cup more juice. This is one of those Valentine recipes
that can be used year round. Find more easy
smoothie recipes here.
Fruit Flowers
Kids can use their creativity to make flowers out of cut fruit. Try
using sliced strawberries for a flower and petals and use sliced kiwi
for stems. Sliced peaches, raspberries, or blueberries all work great
also. Create a flower on a plate or turn this simple Valentine recipe
into a bouquet of flowers for your Valentine.
Blueberry Kiss Smoothie
2 small cartons of blueberry yogurt
1/2 Cup milk
2 scoops vanilla frozen yogurt or ice cream
Whip together in a blender and pour into glasses. If you'd like this in
a more Valentine's color use strawberry, raspberry or cherry yogurt.
Cherry Crepes
4 Cup milk
5 eggs
½ teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon sugar
2 Cup flour
1 Tablespoon oil for frying
Lightly beat eggs. Stir in milk, sugar and salt. Add flour and mix well
with an electric mixer. Let rest for 10 minutes. If necessary add more
milk so batter is thin. Heat small fry pan to very hot. Add oil to coat
pan. Reheat. Add batter to just cover bottom of pan. Turn to brown
other side. Set on plate and cover with a towel. Reheat pan no need to
add more oil. Stir batter before each crepe. This recipe makes a lot!! Cherry filling
1/4 Cup sugar
1 Cup sour cream
1 jar canned sour cherries, or 2-3 Cups fresh pitted cherries mixed
with 3/4 Cup-1 Cup sugar
Mix together sugar and sour cream until sugar is dissolved. Set aside.
Set one crepe on a board, put a row of cherries across the crepe, in
the lower ¼th. Roll the crepe from the bottom over the cherries and to
the top. Drizzle with sugar/sour cream mixture.
Simple Valentine Breakfast Ideas:
Heart shaped French Toast-cut your bread out
with a heart cookie cutter and then proceed with making french toast.
Heart shaped pancakes-Use a metal cookie cutter
and pour pancake batter inside.
Cut toast into heart with a cookie cutter and
spread with red jam.
Drizzle a heart with honey or maple syrup on
oatmeal or hot cereal.
Spread strawberry cream cheese, then strawberry
jam on top of a tortilla. Roll up and cut into slices.
Make biscuits shaped like hearts and serve with
eggs.
Valentine
Recipes for
Dinner
Individual Heart
Shaped Pizzas
Pizza dough
Mozzarella cheese
Pizza sauce
Toppings of your choice
Divide pizza dough into balls according to the number of servings you
will need. Shape dough into a heart shape by making a round circle and
forming the top of a heart to the top of the pizza round. Make a point
at the bottom. If you have a heart shaped cake pan you can use that
also. Top with pizza sauce, cheese and toppings of your choice. Give
this Valentine recipe more hearts by cutting pepperoni or ham slices
into heart shapes or making heart shapes out of green or red pepper
slices.
Valentine Soup
8 oz. Can of sliced mushrooms
1 can black olives sliced
Pepperoni cut in small pieces
4 Cups water
Large jar of spaghetti sauce or homemade spaghetti sauce
2 Tablespoons Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon parsley
1 teaspoon basil
In saucepan add all ingredients together. You can add or omit any
ingredients as you would like. Simmer on medium 15-20 minutes until
warm. Serve with garlic bread.
Heart Meatballs
1 egg beaten
½ Cup Spaghetti sauce
¼ Cup bread crumbs, seasoned
½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 ½ lbs. Ground beef
1½ Cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Combine all ingredients together in a large bowl. With your hands shape
meat into a heart. These will be much bigger than average size
meatballs. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until done in
the middle. (test with a meat thermometer) It
is rather easy to shape these into a heart shape and they are great
placed on a mound of spaghetti or eaten as it is with a dot of red
ketchup on the top. One of the easiest and fun kids Valentine recipes.
Heart
Salad
Create a green tossed salad with whatever vegetables you'd like. Add
some healthy Valentine hearts by cutting red peppers in half. Remove
the seeds and cut out the core. With a small mini heart cookie cutter
cut out hearts out of your red pepper halves. Toss into your salad. It
is a lot of fun for those at dinner to find these red hearts.
Fun Valentine
Recipes and
Ideas
Do
you need a heart shaped pan for a recipe but don't
have one?
Try this idea. Bake your recipe in a 8x8 square pan and a circle pan.
If you are making a cake, for example, once it has cooled and you take
it out of the pan, turn it sideways to resemble a diamond. Cut the
circle cake in half and place one half on each side at the top of the
diamond. Once you frost the cake or decorate it, you will not be able
notice any difference. Now you can create many Valentine recipes with
this idea.
Fun Heart Idea for
your Valentine
Recipes
Trace a heart shape onto a piece of tinfoil. Cut out the heart. Make a
pizza or a spaghetti pie, place the tin foil heart in the middle of
your dish and sprinkle with cheese all around the edges. Bake. Your
valentine dish will come out looking very festive with a red heart
(spaghetti sauce) in the middle and white around the edges (cheese).
Dessert
Valentine Recipes
Heart
Shaped Cheesecake
Make a cheesecake in a heart shaped springform pan. Top the middle of
the cheesecake with cherry pie filling making it into a heart shape.
Leave about 1-2 inches around the edges for a decorative valentine look.
Simple Cheesecake
Recipe
lemon Jell-O gelatin, 4 serving size
½ Cup boiling water
8 ounces Cream cheese, softened
2 Cup Cool whip or whipped cream
Graham Cracker crust or chocolate cookie crust- homemade
Prepare the graham cracker crust and press into a heart shaped pan. Set
aside. In a bowl, dissolve gelatin in boiling water. In separate bowl,
beat cream cheese until smooth; gradually beat in gelatin. Add whipped
topping into cheese mixture. Stir gently. Pour into heart pan. Chill
several hours. Place cherries on top in the shape of a heart as
mentioned above.
Cookie
Pizza
sugar cookie dough or brownie mix
2 Cups chocolate chips
14 oz. Sweetened condensed milk
2 Cups milk chocolate candies (M&M)
2 Cups mini marshmallows
½ Cups peanuts
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Press cookie dough or brownie mix into
pizza pan. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. In saucepan, melt
chocolate chips with condensed milk. Spread over crusts. Sprinkle with
chocolate candies, marshmallows and peanuts. Bake 4 minutes or until
marshmallows are lightly toasted. To
turn this into a extra fun Valentine recipe use the heart shape
pizza idea under the Valentine dinner menu above.
Fruit Pizza
sugar cookie dough
white cream cheese frosting
Sliced fruit, strawberries, kiwi, raspberries whatever you choose
Spread cookie dough onto pizza pan. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden
brown. Allow to cool. Then frost. Top with sliced fruit in whatever
pattern you choose. To
turn this into a extra fun Valentine recipe use the heart shape
pizza idea under the Valentine dinner menu above.
Tunnel Of Love Cake
Angel food cake, already prepared
8 oz. pkg cream cheese
3/4 Cup sweetened condensed milk
1/4 Cup lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon almond extract
2 Cups strawberries, sliced
16 oz. pkg. whipped topping
To create your tunnel cut off a 1 inch layer off the cake top. Set
aside for later. Scoop out a tunnel leaving the sides of the cake
intact and set cake pieces aside for later. Prepare filling by mixing
together cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and almond
extract. Add insides of the cake you previously scooped out. Cut cake
pieces into small pieces if needed. Stir sliced strawberries and cake
pieces gently into cream cheese mixture. Spoon into tunnel. Replace top
of cake layer and frost with whipped topping.
Brownie Heart
Prepare a brownie mix or homemade brownie recipe for this Valentine
recipes. Pour into a greased heart shaped pan. Bake and allow to cool.
With whipped cream spray an outline of a heart in the middle of the
brownie. Place cherries or chopped strawberries inside the heart.
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Chocolate Kiss Cupcakes
Love
Potion Smoothie
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