Heart Necklace Valentine Cookies.

Add a string or bow and there
 you have an edible bracelet.

makes about 30 heart shapes.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter - softened / margarine.
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla exxence
• 1 tbsp lemon zest
•  2   1/2 cups self raising flour -sifted.
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 drops of red food colouring or beetroot juice.
•  70 gr [2  1/4 oz] candy sprinkles [ cake decorating marzipan decorations]
• 60 red licorice pieces - in vines for tying.

Method

1. Cream 1 cup butter  and 3/4 cup white sugar together.
2. Blend in the egg, 1 tsp vanilla essence and lemon zest.
3. Sift together 2  1/2 cups of self raising flour and baking powder into another bowl.
4. Add to the creamed mixture and blend well.
5. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
6. Prepare the work bench area.
7. Preheat the oven to 190 deg C [375 deg F]
8. Lightly flour the rolling area.
9. Roll out the dough to7mm [1/4 in]
1. Note if the weather is extremely hot when making these Valentine Cookies then take from the fridge 1/3rd of the dough at a time.
10. With the heart shaped dough cutters flour them lightly before using them to cut.
1. You'll need both a 2.5 and a 5 cm [1 and 2 inch] cutter.
11. Cut out the dough.
12. Place cut out dough on a paper lined tray.
13. Use a straw to press a ring in the top of the heart shape.
14. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes.  
15. Cool on wire rack.

Now for the decorating

1. Stir in the colouring .
2. On the cool cookies spread the frosting.
3. Decorate the top of the frosting
4. Use a toothpick to dislodge the 'hole'.
5. Thread the licorice into the hole and tie.

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Cackleberries

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Marshmallow Dip Sticks

Ingredients

Easy to make... fast to eat.

• 2 cups chocolate chips
• 1 cup peanut butter, cashew butter or other nut spread
• 300 g [10 oz] bag marshmallows
• chocolate sprinkles
• pretzel sticks
• waxed paper

Method

1. Set up the work bench.
1. If thee are a team of smaller helpers then set the bowls of pretzels, marshmallows, nut paste, melted chocolate and sprinkles far enough apart for ease of movement between each person. 
1. By the way with helpers forget the waxed paper.
2. Insert pretzel sticks into the marshmallows.
1. about 3/4 down into the Marshmallow.
3. Dip the top of the Marshmallow into the nut butter.
4. Set aside on the waxed paper.
5. Melt the Chocolate chips in a microwave, stove top or double boiler.
6. Dip peanut butter end of the marshmallow into the chocolate.
7. Immediately dip the chocolate end into chocolate sprinkles.
8. Place on waxed paper.

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References
Family Corner

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Roll ups as a message

Children are wonderfully creative.

When one thing is done and liked then another excuse will bring about the same recipe with a creative variation.  There are all sorts of add on included as one child follows the thought processes of another.

Ingredients

• Cream Cheese
• Jam or conserve [ Strawberry for Valentines day, Valentine day get apricot and Fathers day a dark red plum or boysenberry]
• 2 flat breads like a tortilla or a roll out and flattened piece of your normal bread. 

Method

1. Spread the cream cheese onto the bread.
2. Now spread a dollop of jam over the cream cheese spread.
3. Roll the bread up.
4. Enjoy the eating.

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Heart shaped pancakes

Ingredients

• Pancake mix- already made up and filled into a squeeze bottle.

Method

1. Heat the fry pan that the pancakes are to be cooked in.
2. When the butter or marge is sizzling then turn the squeeze bottle upside down and quickly direct the pancake mix into a heart shape.
3. Cook the heart shaped pancake. 
4. Turn the pancake over.
5. Once cooked carefully lift out of the pan and onto a plate.
6. Allow to cool.
7. Top with a squirt of canned whipped cream

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Raspberry Bars

Every time we have made these bars we seem to change the jam around.  However when Valentine day is close by the selected jam used is usually a red one.

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• 1 cup butter or Margarine - softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups flour
• 2/3 cup raspberry jam
• 1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
• 1 and 1/3 cups coconut
• 2 eggs lightly beaten
• 1 tsp sugar.

Method

1. Cream together 1 cup of butter or margarine and 1 cup of sugar.
2. Add the flour.
3. Blend well.
4. Pat the crust mixture into a greased 7.75 x 33 x 5cm [9 x 13x2 inch] baking pan.
5. Spread the raspberry jam over crust layer.
6. Mix together the remaining ingredients.
7. Spread this mixture evenly over the crust and jam mixture.
8. Bake at 175 deg C [350 Deg F] for 25 to 30 minutes.
9. Cool in the pan on the rack.
10. When cool cut into bars.

Safety measures to insist on are that the bars are stored out of the way of little fingers until the hot jam mixture has cooled down well enough to place the finger anywhere near.  Also the use of beaters is something that requires closer than normal supervision and updating of indtuctions.

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Chocolate and Banana Cresents

From the early preparation to the eating these chocolate and banana crescents are ideal to adventure with as a team - with only your children participating or the added of friends that have descended into your back door for the day..  Small groups doing different things, supervised by more than one adult makes the creations a living experience.

However the crescents are prepared the end taste is light weight and enjoyable.  Eaten when light a fluffy having cooled down a little with topping such as home made yoghurt they are still very tasty when served chilled as a finger food dessert.

Makes 10

• 3/4 cup of milk
• 1/2 medium banana - very finely chopped.
• 1/4 cup dark brown chocolate bits.
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 cups self raising flour
• pinch of baking powder
• 2 tbsp caster sugar
• milk, for extra, for glazing.
• cinnamon sugar - for sprinkling.

1. Mix the banana, chocolate bits, brown sugar and ground cinnamon.
1. Set this aside, cover the bowl and allow the mixture to 'age'.
2. Line a baking try and turn on the oven to heat it up. 200 deg C is the cooking temp.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder and castor sugar together.
3. Rub the butter into sifted dry ingredients, until the mixture resembles fine like breadcrumbs.
4. Make a well into the centre.
5. Add most of the milk.
6. Mix lightly to form a soft dough.
• Add the remaining milk if necessary.
7. Turn onto a lightly floured surface.
8. Knead briefly until smooth.
9. Roll out the dough to form a large circle
• About 30 cm [12 inches] round.
10. Cut the dough into ten even-sized wedges.
• You will be rolling up each base piece from the widest end so take the time now to position the wedges so that as you are rolling the wedges up the base and the contents are not 'flopping' over the other pieces of 'base'.. 
11. With the mixture of the banana, chocolate bits, brown sugar and ground cinnamon place a small amount at the widest end of each of the wedges. 
12. Enclose the filling as you begin to roll the widest side of the wedge in towards the apex.
13. Place these crescents onto your lined baking tray.
14. Brush the crescent top with milk.
15. Sprinkle a little cinnamon sugar on top of each crescent.
16. bake in the upper half of the oven at 200deg C for about 15 minutes [less if oven is fan forced] - or until golden brown.
17. Top with thickened cream ,ice cream, home made custard or even yoghurt.
18. Serve immediately.

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References

Honey Biscuits

Ingredients

• 175 g unsalted butter - chopped
• 1 cup caster sugar
• /4 cup honey
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 egg - lightly beaten.
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2  1/4 cups self - raising flour
• milk to serve -optional.

Directions

1. Stir butter, sugar, honey and cinnamon in a medium sauce pan over a low heat - tiol butter has melted and mixture is smooth.
2. Remove from heat.
3. transfer the hot mix to a large bowl.
4. Cool to room temperature.
5. Stir egg, vanilla extract and flour into mixture.
6. Roll tbsp of mixture into balls
7. Place, about 4 cm apart, on two oven trays lined with baking paper.
8. Flatten slightly with a fork.
9. Cook in two batches, in a moderate oven 9180 deg C for 12 min [until golden brown]
10. Cool on trays
11. Serve biscuits with milk.

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