Valentines
Day Recipes
Cake Decorating Ideas
When
St.Valentines Day rolls around, make a Sweetheart Cake or call on these salads
to lend a happy note. It's a delicious way to say, "Be Mine!"
Make some polkadot cupcakes, with tiny heart candies decorating the top for the kids.
Valentines Day Cake
You don't need a heart shaped pan to make a simple but impressive cake. It's perfect for Valentine's Day or anytime you want to show you care.
How to Make a Heart Shaped Cake:
Make
a heart for your Valentine. First bake both a round cake and a square cake. Cut
the round cake in half, turn the square cake so it looks like a diamond.
Add a cut round cake half on the top on each side of the diamond. Fasten the cake pieces together with Buttercream Frosting. Easy. Frost and serve.
Hearts and Flowers trim the dinner table
Salad Hearts are rich, creamy molds dotted with fruit cocktail and tiny marshmallow fluffs. Center the tray with Fluffy Pink Mayonnaise. Whip 1/2 cup whipping cream; fold in 1 cup mayonnaise. Fold in a drop or two of red food coloring to tint to a delicate pink.
Salad Hearts
1
#2 1/2 can (3 1/2 cups) fruit cocktail
1 package lemon flavored gelatin
1
cup hot water
1/4 cup maraschino cherry syrup
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2
3oz pkgs. cream cheese
1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing
1 1/2 cups tiny
marshmallows
1/4 cup quartered maraschino cherries
1 cup whipping cream,
whipped
Few drops red food coloring
Drain fruit cocktail, reserving 1 cup syrup. Dissolve gelatin in hot water; add reserved fruit cocktail syrup, maraschino cherry syrup, and lemon juice. Chill till partially set.
Soften cream cheese; add mayonnaise and beat till smooth. Add to gelatin mixture, mixing well. Stir in fruit cocktail, marshmallows, and cherries. Fold in whipped cream. Tint pink with red food coloring. Pour into individual heart molds.* Freeze salad several hours or overnight. Unmold atop canned pineapple rings. If desired, top with Gelatin Heart Cutouts. Makes 12 large or 18 small servings. *Freeze any extra in refrigerator tray.
Gelatin Heart Cutouts
Dissolve one pkg.
cherry or strawberry or raspberry flavored gelatin in 2 cups hot water. Pour into
shallow baking dish. Gelatin should be a little less than 1/2 inch deep. Chill
to firm. Cut hearts with a cookie cutter. To remove the first cutout, slit a piece
of gelatin between designs and pull out scraps; lift the cutout with a spatula.
Serve atop the Valentine salads.
Queen of Hearts Frosting
1 egg
white
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons heartshaped red cinnamon candies
Dash
salt
1/2 cup applesauce
1 teaspoon light corn syrup
Combine all
ingredients in top of a double boiler. Beat 1 minute with electric or rotary beater.
Place over boiling water; beat constantly until mixture forms peaks, about 4 minutes.
(Careful - don't overcook!) Remove from boiling water.
Beat until of spreading
consistency, about 2 minutes. Frost tops of 12 cupcakes or tops and sides of one
9 inch square cake. Dot with additional red candies.
Recipe from a 1963
Cookbook
Cherry Meringue Torte
Nice for a February Party
Shell:
Beat 3 egg whites with 1 teaspoon vanilla and dash of salt till foamy. Gradually
add 1 cup sugar; beat to stiff peaks. Mix 3/4 cup chopped walnuts, 1/3 cup saltine
crackers crumbs, and 1 teaspoon baking powder; fold into egg whites. Spread in
a well greased 9 inch pie plate, building up sides. Bake at 300 F for about 40
minutes. Cool
Filling: Drain 1 #2 can (2 1/2 cups) frozen pitted
tart red cherries, reserving syrup. Combine 3/4 cup syrup and 1/4 cup sugar; heat
to boiling. Add cherries; cook 10 minutes. Mix 2 tablespoons cornstarch with remaining
cold syrup; add to hot mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, till thick and clear.
Cool. Whip 1 cup whipping cream; line Shell with half. Fill with cherry mixture;
top with remaining cream.
Recipe from 1963
Red and White Sundaes
Place
tiny scoops of vanilla ice cream in dessert dishes. Top with red raspberry preserves
or quick cherry Sauce.
Quick Cherry Sauce: Chop drained maraschino cherries.
Add light corn syrup and a little lemon juice to taste; add a dash of salt. Spoon
over ice cream.
Heart Shaped Sandwiches
Make
heart sandwiches with cookie cutters
and both dark and white bread.
Cut large hearts, circles, and 2 inch
squares from both white and dark bread. (If you freeze bread
and cut while frozen, edges won't crush.)
Cut small hearts in the center of
half the cutouts of each color - if you have tiny heart hors d'oeuvre cutters,
cut twin hearts.
To make the inlaid sandwich tops, replace the small cutout
hearts in the white bread with ones of dark bread, and visa versa.
Spread the
plain bases with your choice of sandwich filling.
You may want to use egg salad, ham
salad, or process cheese spread. Top filling with an inlaid cutout of the
same shape, but of contrasting color.
My Note: You could make cookie cutter cookies with a heart shaped cookie cutter. Divide the cookie dough in half and tint one half of the dough with red food coloring.
More Holiday Recipes
Easter Recipes
Saint
Patrick's Day Recipes
Christmas Cakes
Birthday
Cake Ideas
Halloween Cupcakes
Also see Aunt Elle's Sugar Cookie Hearts Recipe
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