DECORATE VALENTINE COOKIES
- Set out some unfrosted heart shaped cookies, tubs of ready-made frosting, paper plates, plastic knives and lots of different color sprinkles, and let the kids have fun creating their own Valentine treats!
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CUPID'S DELIGHT CHERRY FLOAT
Cherry 7-up, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and a maraschino
cherry on top.
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STRAWBERRY MICE (Too cute not to put here!!!)
Ingredients: Fresh strawberries, Mini chocolate chips, Black decorators' icing, Almond slivers, Toothpick, Red lace licorice
Cheese (Your choice)
1. For each mouse, slice a small section from the side of a strawberry so it sits flat.
2. Press a mini chocolate chip into the tip for a nose, using a small dab of icing to secure it in place, if needed.
3. Add icing eyes and stick 2 almond slivers into the top of the berry for ears.
4. For a tail, use a toothpick to carve a small hole in the back of the berry and push the end of a piece of licorice lace into the hole.
Serve these cute Berries with small triangles of cheese and maybe crackers...I made these with my 4 and 6 year old grandchildren and they loved them! Submitted by Cassie/Michigan
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REALLY EASY VALENTINE COOKIES
1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
2. Place vanilla wafer cookies 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Set a Hershey's chocolate Kiss on the center of each cookie.
4. Bake at 200 degrees for 5 minutes.
Remove from oven and gently press an M&M candy or a candy heart into the center of the softened Hershey's Kiss.
Allow the cookies to cool completely to let the chocolate harden again.
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EASY VALENTINE PRETZELS
1. Place ROUND pretzels 1-inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Place a Hershey's chocolate Kiss in the center of each pretzel and bake for 5 minutes.
2. Remove from the oven and gently press an M&M candy or candy heart into the center of the softened chocolate.
3. When pressing down you may need to wiggle the chocolate around a little to fill in any gaps between the chocolate and the pretzel. This will help the chocolate stick to the pretzel.
4. Cool completely (Found this Photo at No Fuss Fabulous to go with the recipe! So much nicer when you can see what it looks like!)
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HEART SHAPED SANDWICHES
Ingredients:
Cream cheese, softened
Red food coloring
Bread
Heart cookie cutter
Jam - strawberry or raspberry
1. Add a few drops of red food coloring to the softened cream cheese and mix until the color is a light pink throughout.
2. Cut bread into heart shapes with the cookie cutter.
3. Spread cream cheese on the bread and top with the jam.
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VALENTINE RICE KRISPY SQUARES
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Butter
10 cups Crispy rice cereal
9 cups Miniature marshmallows
2 cups Candy Heart (the tiny red spice type)
Candy Hearts (the ones with messages)
3/4 c Miniature chocolate chips
Red food coloring
1. Melt butter and marshmallows; stir until smooth.
2. In a large bowl, mix rice cereal, candy hearts(spiced tiny red ones) and miniature chips together.
3. To marshmallow mixture, blend in 2 drops red food coloring, adding more coloring if necessary to reach desired shade.
♥ Add marshmallow mixture to cereal mixture; stir quickly to combine. Spread on a large buttered pan; press with buttered hands.
♥ While warm, press on candy heart (with messages) spaced 1 to 1/2-2 inches apart.
♥ Refrigerate and cut into squares.
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RICE KRISPY VALENTINE POPS
Make Rice Krispie Squares according to recipe. Once the Rice Krispies are made, cut them into hearts using a Valentine cookie cutter. Place a popsicle or candy stick into each cut-out rice krispie. Place the Rice Krispies in refrigerator or freezer for five to ten minutes. The coolness of the rice krispies will help the chocolate adhere quickly and easily to the treats.
Melt chocolate. (You can melt 2 large candy bars or your favorite chocolate) When treats are sufficiently cool, dip each rice krispie heart. Sprinkle (with sprinkles) each treat immediately after dipping in chocolate being careful to keep them upright while drying. No Fuss suggests placing the dipped choclate treats in a tall glass to dry instead of placing them on wax paper. Eat and enjoy or if giving for a gift--finish the Valentine treats by covering them with cellophane and a bow. Courtesy of No Fuss Fabulous
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FRIENDSHIP FRUIT SALAD
♥ Ask each child to bring in a piece of fresh fruit or a can of fruit. Have them chop the fruit with a plastic knife.
♥ Mix all together in a big bowl and serve.
♥ Optional: top with miniature marshmallows or even add some dry vanilla pudding and shredded coconut to the fruit to make it special.
♥ The extra cans of fruit left over can be donated to the local food pantry.
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VALENTINE COOKIE GRAHAM
Ingredients: a Graham cracker, pink frosting, (put red food coloring into white frosting) Alpha Bits cereal, small candy hearts
Directions:
♥ Frost Graham cracker with pink frosting.
♥ "Write" your message (I Love You or your name, etc.) using the Alpha Bits and placing them on the middle of the frosted cracker.
♥ Decorate the boarder with candy hearts.
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HAND-DIPPED CANDIES
Microwave high-quality chocolate in a bowl
Dip any of the following items to make chocolate candies:
Cookies, dried fruit, granola bars, pretzels, peanuts, caramels or cherries.
♥ To avoid messy hands, you may want to try dipping some of them with skewers or toothpicks.
♥ Place the chocolate candies on a cookie sheet that has been covered with wax paper and refrigerate or freeze until they harden.
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PINK TOAST
Mix milk with small amount of red food coloring. Have children paint the bread and then then toast it. Put out the strawberry jam to go with it!
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RED CREAM CHEESE DIP
♥ Blend one tablespoon brown sugar into a container of strawberry cream cheese.
♥ Dip strawberries, red apple slices and cherries into the spread.
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FOR OTHER Valentine Day Snacks consider:
♥ RED JELL-O jigglers with cool whip and sprinkles or have children use heart shaped cookie cutters to cut out hearts from the Jell-O.
♥ RED FRUIT (apples, strawberries, raspberries, etc.)
♥ Red/pink fruit JUICE
♥ SANDWICHES:
Use a cookie cutter to cut a heart shape into one piece of bread. Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich using the heart-shaped cutout slices as the top piece.
♥Heart shaped KRISPIE TREATS: Make normal recipe of Rice Krispie treats, but add red food coloring to butter/marshmallow mixture, cut out with heart cookie cutters. If you do not have heart cutters you can either use a knife to cut them out or cut out a square and shape with your hands.
♥ Valentine's PUNCH
1 liter of Raspberry sherbet, 1/4 cup of pineapple juice, 2 liter sprite.
Put the sherbet in the punch bowl; it works best if it is half melted. Next add your pineapple juice. Wisk them together making a smooth texture. Last, add the sprite slowly, mixing continuously until the punch bowl is full.
The punch tastes good and you can use different colors of sherbet for different occasions.
♥ Valentine ROLL-UPS
Have children spread strawbery cream cheese and strawberry jam onto a tortilla- then roll the tortilla up like a log. Let the children use their plastic knives that they used to spread the cream cheese and jam-- to cut the rolled up tortilla into sections.
♥ Heart-shaped snack cakes or cookies
♥ Valentine candy
♥ Cheese slices pressed with heart shaped cookie cutters...
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