Valentine's Day Sweet/Salty Treat

"Granny, Maggie would like an M & M, please"

Maggie placed all the waffle-style pretzels on the parchment lined cookie sheet and then topped each with a Dove Milk Chocolate Heart and did a fine job!

After Maggie completed her "job" the cookie sheet was placed in a pre-heated 350 degree oven and watched carefully...allowing the chocolate to soften (about 2 minutes).

Remove the cookie sheet from oven and place on cooling rack and immediately place festive M & M's in the middle of the yummy chocolate heart (pressing down slightly).

So simple but quite tasty!

Valentine's Day Fun!

Maggie appears to be excited about something, whatever could it be???

Heart shaped pancakes-oh my!!!

Maggie's excitement made me smile!

A heart shaped cookie cutter was my tool of choice, how easy!

Oh Granny, they are hearts!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Valentine Treats

The winter storm today brought back memories of Valentine's Day. I wanted to share treats with some special friends and family so I decided to focus my attention on sweets. Perhaps my favorite item was Cupid's Mix which was featured in the premier issue of Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade magazine. I also tried my hand at using Fancy Flours wafer papers on sugar cookies. It proved to be challenging, so I think more practice is in order. Since I already had some heart shaped sugar cookies, I frosted some with royal icing and piped a pink rose on top. Chocolate covered pretzel rods were also a hit, you can't go wrong with the salty and sweet combination. To round out the goody baskets I made heart shaped pecan sandies which were dusted with a coating of powdered sugar. A project like this is time consuming, but oh so rewarding!