Today I am giving you recipes and kitchen gadgets to help prepare you for your Valentine’s Day! Read below for my suggestions for the kitchen-lover in your family and a few of my favorite dessert Valentine’s Day recipes!
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Red Velvet Heart Cake
Cake:
Ingredients for Red Velvet Cake
Follow the directions on boxes
Pour one mixed box into a circular 9 inch pan, and the other in a square 8×8 pan
Uncooked Red Velvet Cakes
Bake in oven for approximately 60 minutes or until cake tester is clean (place cakes on both racks and after 20 minutes switch)
Cooked Red Velvet Cakes
After cakes are cooled, cut tops of cake to have even surfaces
Cakes!
Frosting:
1 Cup Butter
4 Cups Powdered Sugar
1 TSP Vanilla
1/4 Cup Greek Yogurt (or milk)
Red Food Dye (optional)
Frosting Ingredients
Using a mixer, beat butter until fluffy
Add 1 cup of powdered sugar and mix
Repeat
Add yogurt and vanilla
Add remainder of powdered sugar and a drop of red food dye, if desired. (You can add more to darken the shade of red)
Frosting
After cakes have cooled completely, lay square cake at an angle on platter and frost one side
Frosting the Cake
Frost one more side (one that touches frosted side)
Cut round cake in half and place on frosted square sides to make heart
Unfrosted Heart Cake
Frost entire cake and decorate to your desire!
Frosted Heart Cake!
Champagne Float:
(From TheCoveteur.com Instagram)
Champagne Float
I haven’t made this recipe yet, but I plan to make the float and use a sparking wine, Vertuze. The sparkling wine was launched in 2009, and uses grapes grown in the Arroyo Grande Valley in San Luis Obispo County. Both of their sparkling wines, Rose and Brut, are produced in traditional method of Champagne wines making.
Like Vertuze Sparkling Wine on Facebook HERE.
Vertuze Sparkling Wine
Glass of Vertuze Sparkling Wine
And, I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Fat Tuesday! For those who do not know, Fat Tuesday (translated to Mardi Gras in French) is the practice of eating rich, fatty foods before the Lenten season begins! So, while you are enjoying your Fascnacht, think of what you will be giving up for Lent!
Stay hungry…
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