Wednesday, February 01, 2012

6 Fun & Easy Valentine's Day Foods


Pancakes! I don't have a metal heart-shaped cookie cutter, so I couldn't make them heart-shaped on my griddle (and my pancake batter drawings leave MUCH to be desired!), so I just made normal round chocolate chip pancakes and then used my cookie cutters afterward.


Brownies!  I just baked a normal pan of brownies, used my heart cookie cutter, and drizzled on some strawberry jam.


Quesadillas!  I used a cookie cutter to cut hearts from a flour tortilla, then just sprinkled on some cheese and toasted it all on our griddle.  There are sour cream hearts on top and a barbecue sauce drizzle underneath.


Eggs-in-a-Hole!  Or in this case, a heart.   Using a cookie cutter, cut a heart from the center of a piece of bread.  Heat a skillet or griddle, place your bread down (with the center heart removed), and crack an egg into the heart-shaped hole.  Cook as desired.  I like my egg yolk runny and Daniel prefers his firm.


Cheese & Crackers!  Super easy snack that you can alter to fit your family's tastes!  I used Ritz crackers and topped them with a dab of honey dijon dressing, thinly sliced deli turkey, and a cheese heart.



Jello!  I combined one package of peach gelatin and one package of raspberry gelatin with 1 2/3 cups of boiling water and poured it into a heart-shaped silicone baking pan to make 6 gelatin hearts.  After leaving them in the refrigerator to set up for a few hours, I held the pan upside-down and ran warm water over each cup to release the hearts.