Heart felt apple pies

Ingredients

• 4 pastry sheets
• 1 x 400g can of apple pieces [for cooking]
• Dash of cinnamon or nutmeg mixed with a little sugar.
• a little milk or water.

Method

1. Prepare the work area first.
2. Preheat the oven to 220 Deg C [ 425 deg F].
3. Spray the baking sheet or cooking tray.
4. Mix the cinnamon / nutmeg and sugar into the apple mix.
5. For each apple pie two pieces of heart shaped pastry cut out are used.
6. On the base one place 1 to 2 tbsp of apple mix.
7. around the edges run a finger that has the milk or water on it slightly dampening the outside edge.
8. place the upper pastry over the top of the apple.
9. Press the edges of the top and bottom pastry pieces together.
10. Use a fork to crinkle press the edges together  as well as to make a couple of holes in the top.
1. allows the steam to escape.
11. Bake for 10 to fifteen minutes - or until golden brown.
12. Allow to cool before biting into these pies.

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Valentine Apple Pies

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Gingerbread Valentines

To make these Gingerbread Valentines use the already prepare dough to the point of cutting the shapes out.

Ingredients

• Template pattern of each child's hand.
• 1 pack of red hot candies
• Cake decorating silver or gold balls
• M & Ms

Method

1. Place the paper hands on the dough.
2. Cut around the template hand print.
3. Place the greased cookie sheet on the baking tray.
4. Let the children decorate their own hands
1. say the red hot candies for the finger nails, silver balls for the rings, M & Ms for bigger decrative jewels.
5. Bake at 190 deg C [375 deg F] for 6 to 8 minutes.
6. Cool on wire rack.

This recipe makes about 14 small Gingerbread Valentine hands 

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Lollipop Valentines

Ingredints

Ours have never quite ended up looking
 like this before they were eaten.

• 12 ice block sticks [or craft sticks] - soaked for one hour before use in a bowl of cold water.
• 1/2 cup chocolate buds [brown / white or a combination of]
• 1/2 cup butter - softened.
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar [brown caster sugar]
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• 2 cups all purpose [self raising] flour.
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 28 grams [1 oz] white chocolate
• 1 egg white
• 1  1/4 cups icing sugar
• 3 drops red food colouring [ or beetroot juice]

Method

1. Over a low heat stir chocolate chips until melted and smooth;.  
1. Using a double boiler also is a good method.
2. Remove from heat - let cool.
3. In a large bowl beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla until fluffy.
4. Beat in the egg.
5. Beat in the cooled chocolate.
6. Now slowly beat in the flour, cocoa powder and salt -until smooth.
7. Divide the dough in half.
8. Preheat the over to 190 Deg C [375 Deg F]
9. Grease two large waxed baking papers.
10. Between the two waxed baking sheets roll half the dough out to 0.7cm [1/8 inch].
11. Freeze the dough while it is still in the wax paper for 5 minutes.
12. Peal the top sheet of wax paper off.
13. Using heart shaped 7.5 cm [3 inch] cookies cutters press out as many as the dough will allow.
1. Repeat the procedure with the scraps of dough.
14. With 2.5 cm [1 inch] between them place half the amount of hearts out on a tray.
15. Drain the sticks and pat them dry.
16. Place each stick so that there is a handle of 6.5cm [2.5  inch] sticking out below the cookie dough. 
1. Gently press the stick down on the doughs surface.
17. Now place the other hearts on top of the first set of hearts..
1. press the edges gently down.
18. Bake 12 minutes until firm to touch.
1. cool on wire racks.

Making the covering 

1. Either use a double boiler or a heavy pot that disperses the heat for the next step.
2. Stir in the white chocolate until melted and smooth consistancy is reached.
1. If using two different coloured chocolates then use two different pots.
3. Remove from the heat.
4. Holding each lollipop by the handle dip the heart into the chocolate on both sides.
1. Let the excess drip back into the pan.
5. Place each lollipop onto a wax paper-lined baking sheet and let cool for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
1. until set.

Making the icing

1. Beat the egg white and icing sugar until this is very smooth.
2. Remove some of this main mix and place it into a small bowl.
1. Drop a drip of colouring into this section of the mixture.
3. Spoon icing into a decorating bag that has a writing tip attached to it.
4. Pipe out the patterns and words that you want to say.
5. Decorate with small cake decorating marzipan shapes.

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Lollipop valentine hearts

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Pasta Hearts of Love

Ingredients

• Several packets of heart shaped pasta.
• Water as per instructions on the packet.
• A small dab of oil or margarine
• Parmesan Cheese - grated.

Method

1. Cook pasta as per the instructions on the packet.
2. Cool slightly.
3. Toss in the Parmessan Cheese.
4. Let the cheese melt.
5. Serve with a light salad.

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Message on a biscuit

Simple steps great learning make.

Part of the fun with food is that the preparation  all about messages. Even young children enjoy making simple messages look creative when dealing with their emotions.

Try these and see what I mean.

Ingredients
Per child you will need

• Either a Graham cracker or Marie biscuit.
• Pink icing or frosting [ white icing sugar or frosting with a little red added.  Little = very little]
• Little cake decoration balls.
• Alpha Bits or cake decoration hearts.

Method

1. Frost or ice the biscuits
2. Using the cake decoration balls write a message [try I love you, happy birthday, Merry Christmas or even be my Valentine]
3. Now decorate the edges with hearts or candle.  What ever the occasion warrants that you have the cake decoration bits for.

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