Super Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Treats!

Hey yall!

I love getting festive for holidays or events and today is no exception. We are making REALLY EASY (emphasis on the easy) Valentine’s Day Treats!

Avocado Toast with Sriracha and a Heart egg
Ingredients:
-Slice of your favorite bread (I used a garlic cheese one)
-One small avocado
-One large egg
-Heart cutter
-Butter
–Roland Sriracha (aka THE BEST sriracha in my opinion)
-Power Greens

Directions:
-Heat the butter up in a skillet over medium heat; place the heart cutter inside the pan. Then, crack the egg into the heart and let cook for a couple of minutes.
-Pour 1/4c of water into the pan, wait for it to steam, then cover the egg with a lid and let it continue to cook for about 4 minutes.
-For the avocado toast, toast your bread. (haha, duh) Then, cube up the avocado (add garlic salt & pepper) and mash it up. Spread over the toast. Place toast on top of greens.
-Decorate your plate with sriracha and enjoy!

Strawberry Banana Breakfast Smoothie
Ingredients:
-Pack of strawberries
-3 bananas
-Splash of vanilla extract
-Milk
-Honey

Directions:
-Put your fruit in the freezer for a few hours or overnight. If you choose overnight, then remember to leave the fruit out for a short amount of time before making the smoothie.
-Put all ingredients into the blender and blend.
-Periodically stir the mixture and add more honey to taste. This one is super easy!

Cheese Heart Tray:
Ingredients:
-Sliced Colby Jack
-Sliced Cheddar
-Mini hear cutter
-Sliced Genoa salami
-Red grapes
-Small crackers or slices of bread

Directions:
-Stack the cheese slices, then cut out desired heart shaped cheese
-Arrange on the plate and add the salami, grapes, and bread

Chocolate Glazed Brownie Hearts and Strawberry Cake
Ingredients:
-1 box of Betty Crocker Original Supreme Brownie mix
-1 box of Pillsbury strawberry cake mix
(water, egg, and vegetable oil are needed for the mixes)
-1 tub of Betty Crocker Rich and Creamy chocolate frosting
-Festive Sprinkles
-Pink Icing with something to pipe it
-Cute cupcake wrappers
-Heart pan
-Heart Cutter

Directions:
-Bake the mixes according to their packages.
-Let brownies cool, then use the heart cutter to shape them.
-Decorate each one how you want!

Recipe inspiration here
Dipped Pretzels
Ingredients:
-Pretzels rods and butter pretzels
-Candy melts or some sort of melting chocolate (I used the vanilla flavor)
-Festive Sprinkles
-Baking tray lined with parchment paper

Directions:
-Melt the dipping chocolate in the microwave for two 30 second increments.
-Dip the pretzels into the melted mixture (a spoon helps) and lay them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. When you have dipped a few, decorate them. Then, repeat the process.
-Cool them in the fridge for about 10 minutes before plating.

Recipe inspiration here

 

Strawberry Milkshake
Ingredients:-Fresh strawberries
-Milk
-Vanilla ice cream (I used Ben&Jerrys, but any one you prefer is fine)
-Vanilla Extract

Directions:
-Put everything into a blender and mix it! I eyeballed all the ingredients. You can add as much or as little of each as you want!

Recipe inspiration here

 

I hope you enjoyed this post and found it helpful. I love doing things like this! I think it is SO FUN to get into the spirit of holidays and make festive foods. These were exceptionally easy to make and perfect for a girls night in or a date night in! OR they would be perfect for a family snack session! Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day.

-Kimi

PS, check out the video I made showing you me making the food!
Super Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Treats!

I usually stick to makeup on my channel, but I love food too much and cannot help but post food videos! This was my first food video, so I know it isn’t professional or anything, but I had fun making it!

 

Valentine’s Day Treat: Strawberry Cake

Hey yall!

I just wanted to share what I made for Valentine’s Day. I have never really been into V-Day, but this year was different because I kept seeing adorable baking ideas and pretty heart shaped foods on Pinterest/YouTube! I brainstormed and decided to make a strawberry cake because a) it’s delicious — definitely one of my top three favorite flavors (lemon vanilla would probably be number one) and b) because it’s pink!

I was looking up recipes on Pinterest and ended up coming across Paula Deen’s “Smply Delicious Strawberry Cake” recipe. I know there is controversy surrounding Paula, but I used to watch her all the time on the Foodnetwork and loved her show. (Probably because the food was fatty and delicious looking, haha)

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients Needed

Simply Delicious Strawberry Cake – Paula Deen

• 1 (18.25-ounce) box white cake mix
• 1 (3-ounce) box strawberry flavored instant gelatin
• 1 (10-ounce) package frozen strawberries in syrup, thawed and pureed
• 4 large eggs
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup water
• Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows)
• Garnish: sliced fresh strawberries (I decided to decorate it with icing hearts, but now that I think about it, a strawberry heart would have been perfect!)

 

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease and flour 2 round 9-inch cake pans.
  ***I used small heart shaped pans and cupcake tins***
• In a large bowl, combine cake mix and gelatin. Add pureed strawberries, eggs, oil, and water; beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Pour into prepared pans, and bake for 20 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. (I always put the timer on a less time and check them, just so they don’t burn)
  ****I did not have a mixer, so I whisked everything***
• Decorate as desired

Cake Steps

Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 (10-ounce) package frozen strawberries in syrup, thawed and pureed
• 1/2 teaspoon strawberry extract (I used vanilla)
• 7 cups confectioner’s sugar

CONFESSION: I refused to use that much powdered sugar, so I used about 4 cups and more puree because I wanted a strong strawberry flavor. I am not a huge icing fan, so I wasn’t planning on using a lot. I will say this, this made SO MUCH FROSTING. I would recommend cutting the recipe in half (maybe use 2 or 3 cups of powdered sugar) if you’re making cupcakes.

Directions:

• In a large bowl, beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. (I used a fork and spoon because I didn’t have a mixer) Beat in 1/4 cup strawberry puree, reserving remaining for another use. (Again, I used a bit more puree and less sugar)
• Beat in extract.
• Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until smooth.
• You can add red food coloring to make it pinker.

Icing Steps

Here is the final product. The cake was absolutely delicious and very moist! You really could taste the strawberry flavor in both the cake and icing. (Again, I am not a huge fan of icing, so I didn’t put very much on.)

Finished Product! (minus the left)

What are your favorite cake flavors? Leave a comment to let me know!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you had a great Valentine’s Day loving yourself and loving the important people in your life.
-Kimi