Happy Valentines Day!
Here are some quick and easy ideas that you still have time to do today!
My kids woke up to these treat bags this morning. I was not very excited about the gifts they had at the stores, and for the price I decided to make my own. I bought the little cans of soda, the cute bags, and a bag of Valentines Hershey Kisses. I grabbed a few extra items out of my pantry and some secret stash (M & M cookies they hadn't found yet).
One of our almost traditions is that I try to make pink pancakes for Valentines Day.
Last year I bought some metal heart cookie cutters on clearance, after the Valentines Day, and I used those on my griddle to make my heart shaped pancakes. Spray come cooking spray inside the cookie cutter and be prepared that the cookie cutter will get hot. I used some little tongs and a spatula.
I found that just flipping the pancake and cutter over together worked best. Then I gently pushed the pancake down to touch the griddle.
Since I think I get to go on a date, I wanted to do a special treat for the kids for after supper so I whipped up these cupcakes quick.
This time I totally cheated and used a box mix for the cupcakes.
I then made some cream cheese frosting and grabbed my sprinkles.
I put some sprinkles in the glass bowl and turned my cupcake upside down and dipped it into the sprinkles to decorate the frosting.
The great thing about cupcakes is that usually there is some extra frosting. This is why I absolutely love to make cream cheese frosting for cupcakes. My kids will then use up the extra frosting as fruit dip. I have to admit, it is pretty good that way.
I love these new papers that don't fade! Three Cheers, I will definitely be looking for these on clearance. They are the Reynolds Stay Brite Baking cups, 36 count.
This worked awesome! No huge sprinkle mess to clean up afterwards.
Ok, so your thinking to yourself that you really don't have time to do this today. So keep it in mind for next year. The great thing is that kids love having pancakes for supper as well as breakfast.
Make sure you do hit the stores though to pick up sprinkles, cupcake papers, treat bags, etc. I even buy the kids' Valentines for the next school year and save them. Put it in a Rubbermaid and label it Valentines and then, if you really think you'll forget, set a reminder on your phone for next February 1st to go and open your Valentine bucket and scope out your loot, enjoy how much money you saved since you bought it on clearance and enjoy less stress since it's already in front of you and you don't have to schedule that trip to the store.
Happy Day!
