Hearty Pizza!

Cookie Cutters are not just for Cookies


From: Feelslikehome.blog.com

Pizzas are a perfect cooking activity for young kids, they don’t require to be near a hot stove and they are practically a shoe in even for picky eaters. Blend carrots and peppers into the sauce, and they get their veggies! Also using tortillas makes it easy to shape the crust into a heart.

1. Gather your materials. You will need a pan, oven , tortillas, pizza sauce, pepperoni , mozzarella , kitchen sheers and a heart shaped cookie cutter.

2. Start by folding your tortilla in half and cutting it into a heart.

3. Next using the cookie cutter make your heart shaped pepperoni, you could do this with a host of other toppings as well.

4. Time to gather the kiddos!

5. Spread the sauce on

6. Add the cheese, I am not sure if he is putting it on or taking it off in this picture. Shred much more than you need if your little chef is a fan of cheese!

7. Add the pepperoni! My son insisted the hearts were eyes, so we made a mouth too.

8. Bake- I baked ours at 400* for about 10 minutes, checking on it often.

Valentine Cookie Decorating Ideas

Valentine Message Cones

From Better Homes & Garden

You'll need:

Purchased sugar cones
meringue cookies
chocolate chips for the treat
pretty paper and nonpareils for the secret message.

See the next three slides for more directions.




Choose Your Words

Print love fortunes on pretty paper and cut them into strips. Roll the note and tuck in the bottom of a cone. For an additional surprise, sprinkle a few colorful nonpareils inside the cone on top of the note.

For an additional surprise, sprinkle a few colorful nonpareils inside the cone on top of the note.


Make Cookie "Scoops"

Using a pastry brush, coat the bottoms of two store-bought meringue cookies with melted chocolate chips and stick them together.

Seal Your Note

Coat the top inside of the sugar cone with melted chocolate, then set the meringue cookie "scoop" on top. Let the chocolate set before giving or eating.

Sweetheart Cupcakes

Ingredients
• 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
• 1 1/4 cups water
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 3 egg whites
• 8 drops red food coloring

Directions

1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a standard muffin tin with paper cupcake liners.

2. Beat the cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and egg whites together until smooth. Fill cupcake liners 1/3 full with white batter; set aside.

3. Stir 4 drops of red food coloring into the remaining bowl of batter to make the batter pink. Pour 1/3 of pink batter into a resealable plastic bag and set aside.

4. Mix more food coloring into the remaining bowl of pink batter until it is an orange/red color and pour the batter into a resealable plastic bag. Cut a corner off the bag, stick the open tip into the center of each cup of white batter and squeeze in about two tablespoons of red batter.

5. Cut the corner off the bag with the pink batter, stick the open tip into the center of the red batter and squeeze about 1 tablespoon pink batter into each cup.

6. Bake the layered cupcakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting

Edible Chocolate Cups

• 1 3/4 cups DOVE® Brand Dark Chocolate
• 2 cups M&M’S® Brand Chocolate Candies
• 15 full size aluminum cupcake liners with paper liner removed
• 1. Place the dark chocolate in a bowl and set over simmering water for 2 minutes, or until half the chocolate melts. Remove the bowl from the heat and stir the chocolate until it melts completely. Liberally brush the insides of the aluminum cupcake liners with chocolate. Put the cups on a baking sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes.

• 2. Replace the bowl of chocolate over the pot of simmering water for about 1 minute. Again, liberally brush the cups with the chocolate and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

• 3. Gently pull the aluminum liners away from the chocolate cup and place the chocolate cups in the refrigerator until ready to use.

• 4. When ready to use, fill the chocolate cups with M&M’S® Brand Chocolate Candies.