V-Day Fun: Recipes

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Here are some recipes that are related to Valentine's Day! ^^ If you enjoy playing with food, baking or even making drinks you'll enjoy these! (:
If you find some you'd like to share, or even have your personal recipes, please post all of them here!
Please be detail by detail on what they need, how to make it and measurements. A picture would be nice, but not needed!

 

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Chocolate Decadence.

◆ Ingredients
✖ 4 tbsp. butter, plus extra for pan
✖ 3/4 cup evaporated milk
✖ 2 cups sugar
✖ 1/2 tsp. salt
✖ 1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
✖ 1 tsp. vanilla extract
✖ 1 12-oz. bag semisweet chocolate chips


◆ Instructions
✖ Butter an 8-inch square baking pan. In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, combine the butter, milk, sugar and salt and stir over low heat until the butter has melted. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and stir in the miniature marshmallows until they have fully melted. Stir in the vanilla extract. Then slowly pour in the chocolate chips, stirring as you go, until the mixture is smooth.

✖ Turn the mixture into the buttered pan and smooth out with a plastic spatula, if necessary. While the fudge is still warm, score it into 16 squares. Once the fudge has cooled fully (which can take at least an hour), cut it into squares with a sharp knife. For heart-shaped pieces, gently press a mini heart-shaped cookie cutter onto each square and remove excess. Makes 16 2-inch squares (or slightly smaller hearts).

 

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Healthy Hearts.

◆ Ingredients
✖ Watermelon slices
✖ Orange slices
✖ Bamboo kitchen skewers


◆ Instructions
✖ Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter on watermelon slices. Poke a bamboo kitchen skewer through each heart, then complete the arrow with an orange slice tip and tail.

 

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Sweet Fortune Cookies.

◆ Ingredients
✖ Chilled 9-inch piecrust
✖ Cornstarch
✖ 3-inch-wide round cookie cutter or drinking glass
✖ Rolling pin or glass
✖ Nontoxic marker
✖ Slips of paper
✖ Water
✖ Colored sugar
✖ Cookie sheet


◆ Instructions
✖ Lay a chilled 9-inch piecrust on a cornstarch-dusted surface. Cut out 3-inch-wide circles with a round cookie cutter or drinking glass. To use all the dough, roll out the scraps with a pin or a cornstarch-dusted glass.

✖ Use a nontoxic marker to write fortunes on slips of paper and place one in the center of each dough circle. Fold the circle in half, then pinch and fold the ends together. [As shown here.]

✖ Brush the top of each cookie with water, then sprinkle on colored sugar. Place the cookies on an un-greased cookie sheet about an inch apart, sugar side up. Bake them until lightly browned, about 20 minutes, and let them cool before removing them from the pan. Makes about 16 cookies.

 

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Raspberry Tarts.

◆ Ingredients
✖ 3 cups all-purpose flour
✖ 5 egg yolks
✖ 1 cup butter, softened
✖ 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp. sugar
✖ 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
✖ 2 egg whites, lightly beaten
✖ 1/3 cup ground walnuts
✖ 1 1/2 cups seedless raspberry jam


◆ Instructions
✖ In a large bowl, mix the flour, egg yolks, butter, 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla extract, then knead until it forms a soft dough. Chill for 30 minutes.

✖ On a floured surface, roll the dough to 1/8 inch thick. Cut a heart for the bottom of the cookie sandwich, and a heart with a smaller heart cut in it for the top. Brush the tops with the egg whites. Mix the walnuts with the 2 tablespoons of sugar and sprinkle on the cookie tops. Place on an un-greased cookie sheet and bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 10 minutes. Cool.

✖ Spread the bottom hearts with a layer of jam and put the tops on. Makes about 26.

 

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Lemony Love Potion.

◆ Ingredients
✖ 12-ounce can pink lemonade concentrate
✖ 1 cup raspberry sherbet
✖ 12-ounce can of lemon/lime soda


◆ Instructions
✖ In a pitcher, mix the lemonade concentrate with the recommended amount of water.

✖ In a separate pitcher, combine the sherbet with 1 cup of the lemonade mixture.

✖ Add the soda, stir, and serve. Makes 3 cups.

 

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The Vixen.

◆ Ingredients
✖ 1-1/2 ounce Smirnoff 21 Vodka
✖ 1-1/2 ounce Pink Grapefruit Juice
✖ 1-1/2 ounce Pink Lemonade


◆ Instructions
✖ Combine in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a martini glass.