Red, Pink, and White Valentine’s Day Foods
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Crab legs, lobster tails or shrimp
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Strawberries, apples, bananas, marshmallows, angel food cake squares or shortbread cookies to dip in chocolate fondue sauce
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Heart shaped biscuits and strawberry milk
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Heart shaped pancakes (cookie cutter pattern or free-hand) with fruit syrup
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Heart shaped meatloaf, lasagna or pizza
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Strawberry or raspberry shortcake (strawberries hulled and sliced diagonal look like hearts!)
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Melt white chocolate and add crushed red hots—spread on waxed paper
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Valentine Floats
Fill a tall glass with vanilla ice cream. Pour strawberry soda over ice cream and top with whipped cream and 1 teaspoon of strawberry jam.
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Fill a tall glass with strawberry ice cream. Pour lemon-lime soda over ice cream and top with whipped cream and 1 teaspoon of strawberry jam.
- Raspberry, Cherry, or Strawberry Yogurt Dessert
Mix 1 ½ cup fine graham cracker crumbs with ¼ cup melted margarine and ¼ cup sugar. Spoon one heaping tablespoon of crumb mixture into Valentine cupcake liners, press gently, and freeze for 30 minutes.
Mix 2 (6-8 oz) containers of red fruit yogurt into 1 (8 oz) container of whipped topping. Mix well. Spoon yogurt mixture into Valentine cupcake liners. Return to freezer and freeze until ready to serve. Garnish with a dollop of whipped topping and a frozen raspberry, strawberry, or maraschino cherry.
Using any cookie recipe, you can make a heart shaped cookie by making two balls, smaller than you normally would (1/2-3/4 of an inch instead of an inch). Stick the two balls together, and pull/pinch one end to make the point of the heart. Make a long point, then pull the lobes of the heart apart a bit and flatten it. Flattening the heart is an important step so it won’t spread too much in the oven.
Lightly oil a heart-shaped cookie cutter and set it in the middle of a cereal bowl. Fill the cookie cutter with jam, pink yogurt, granola, brown sugar, maple or berry syrup. Pour cooked cereal (oatmeal or cream of wheat) outside of the cookie cutter and then remove it. You’re left with a nice heart right in the middle of the cereal. One more way to say “I love you.”
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Valentine Ice Cream Cake Roll
1 angel food cake mix (or your favorite recipe)
½ gallon strawberry ice cream or any red sherbet
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line 11” x 15” pan (large cookie sheet) with waxed paper. Lightly spray waxed paper and pan with nonstick cooking spray. Mix angel food cake mix according to the directions on package. Pour cake batter into lined, greased pan and spread evenly. Bake until cake is lightly brown and springs back to the touch (12-20 minutes). On a large tea-towel that is sprinkled with powdered sugar, turn warm cake. Roll cake (and towel) into a log. Cool. Unroll. Slice ice cream into 1 inch slabs and lay onto unrolled cake. Roll cake back up with ice cream inside. Freeze until very firm and then wrap in plastic wrap. Slice and serve with sweetened raspberries or strawberries.
