For Valentine's Day the kids and I did some baking. For the first time ever we made a heart shaped Red Velvet Cake, which I'm pretty sure had about 2000 calories per slice. Translation: SUPER yummy, but if you're watching your waist line, I'd beware. The frosting is to die for. Marshmallow. Cream cheese. Coconut. Pecans. Butter. Heaven.*For the recipe, click here. Thanks, Stephanie at Live.Love.Eat for sending me the link!
We also made heart shaped pretzels. They were OK. Fun to make, but a little too hard, crunch wise. Next time I'll decrease the bake time for sure. We just made regular pretzel dough in the bread maker and then added red food coloring to the egg white to brush over the top before baking for color.
I hope your Valentine's day was as nice as mine, spent with my hubby and kids at home!
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Looks like a lovely Valentine Day. That cake looks sooooooo good!
And I'm first!!!
Yummy red velvet cake:) Looks good!
Looks like fun! I love that pretzel idea..
looks like a yummy time was had by all.
Awesome ideas! Fantastic photos.
looks like lots of fun! and yum...red velvet cake!
we spent valentines at home with our kids and let them be a part of a 'romantic' candle light dinner. they were so excited and behaved really well at the table. we may start eating by candle light around here more often!
Sounds WONDERFUL!!!!
We made Snickerdoodles for Daddy, and Brownies for Mommy. :-)
I so love watching you be such a good mom! One of us has to be.... lol
♥ That cake sounds great! Anything with cream cheese and coconut sounds great to me! :)
LOL super yummy sounds about right! I love red velvet cake. Mmmm hmm! Looks like a wonderfully spent Valentines :)
That cake (well the frosting for sure!) sounds to die for! You got any left? I'm gonna guess no...
Glad you and the kids enjoyed your day together. : )
Great idea to paint the pretzels red! That cake looks delicious too! Red velvet is my weakness...
Looks lovely! It seems we did the same sort of thing for Valentines... spent it surrounds by all of our little lovelies :)
Happy Wednesday!
What a super fun Valentine's Day! I'd love to be gorging myself on some of those yummy snacks right about now! Cake looks delicious!
Oh, and how bout them kiddos! So very cute!!
Sounds divine! I am already in love with that frosting! did you boil your pretzels? That helps mine get nice and soft/chewy. Anyway, love the red!
Mmmm, mmm, MMMMM. That cake sounds so darn good - I think I could probably eat the frosting by the spoonful the way you described it. I've got quite the sweet tooth. And your kids are just darling, as usual. :)
i just love baking with the kids, altho the older they get, they tend to want to do it all themselves - bigger kids, bigger mess! that velvet cake looks TO DIE FOR ang!!!
red velvet cake is my fav!!
Looks great! Wish I was invited! I made a extra large heartshaped cookie. Don't tell my football team.
Sounds and looks like a great Valentine's Day! I love red velvet cake!
It looks like everyone had a great time!
Yummy! Looks fun! I had a wedding to go to first but then enjoyed a nice evening at home with my boys (including hubs of course). It was also our 22nd anniv.
Yum, the cake sounds wonderful. I so love baking with my kiddo.
Yum..that recipe sounds delish!! I'll have to try that one day!
What a fun idea .. that frosting sounds SO yummy!
Okay, I can't help myself....the words 'sweet treat' come to my mind. It is a sweet treat y'all made, and for us to view...it too is so sweet!!!
Mine is the fascination of toilet water with 'kids'!!!! Happy Wordful!!
Looks like a great project!!!
Playing along today.
Love the cake..my goodness..sure wish I could bake like that
Mmmmmmmmm - anything with cream cheese.
You're such a good mama to brave the kitchen with the whole crew. I imagine you burn off those calories pretty darn quick!!
Sounds like a great day!
Oh that looks yummy!
I love baking with kids...always a laugh and so much fun!
We didn't bake any Valentine's treats...those are adorable!
that cake looks yummy!! i love the pretzel idea but I could never do it lol..
Looks like a fun Valentine's Day! Happy Wednesday!
I ADORE Red Velvet Cake! Hope you and yours had a Happy Valentine's Day!
We had a similar valentines day. I think I am going to try that cake. I have always wanted to east red velvet cake, YUM!
Wow look at all the fun you guys had!! :)
Yummy! We made chocolates this year! A magical WW to you!
The pictures are so cute, and that cake sounds heavenly! My mouth is watering - ha! Happy WW! :)
Hey! We did the same thing on Valentines Day!
Are we in some club i dont know about?
I just love baking with my kids!
I loooooove Red Velvet cake!
rock it sister...love all the heart goodies! i didn't even get cupcakes done this year. ooops.
Love the photo collage! Too cute!--I've also been perusing your book list in the post below--I'll have to go hunt these down!
Blessings!
Um, yeah, that icing sounds SO good it's ridiculous... Your pictures are adorable : ). I am so glad you do this. It is lots of fun!
I want that cake!
looks like you had a delicious VDay with the kiddies!!
Looks delish, Angie! Did you save me a piece?
Great way to spend VD with the kids! ;)
How sweet looking! And everyone looks so happy! I love the pretzel idea but I'm really glad the cake worked out for you, I will have to try it sometime!!!!!!
How fun!!!
What a fun time, and a great idea to spend Valentine's Day as a family.
Fun! I love kids in the kitchen.
Looks like a blast - and super yummy! Red velvet is my fave!
The cake looks delicious! I cannot wait until my son is old enough to really help me with cooking.
YUM!!!!
Looks like so much fun. And such happy faces. What a great day.
Sounds like a fun valentines day. I bet the cake was really good.
Ohhhh - nummy! I've tried making a red velvet cake before but it didn't taste too good - now I have NO excuse!
Looks like fun.
You should put that recipe up on the blog.
Looks like you all had a fun foodie valentine's day! :)
You can make this for me when I come to visit. Soon.
Yes, I just invited myself. Thankyouverymuch.
Shiloh decorated cookies for Valentine's Day. Can you believe that I forgot to take a picture? Oh well.
Looks like your kids had fun.
Looks like a fun and YUMMY Valentine's day! =D
(and I had no idea that there was actually a "starter" blog for Wordful Wednesday. LOL I saw a link to you on Mommy Matters - KarinKatherine's blog. Funny!)
UM yea that cake looks good
Sounds like you had a lot of fun. I love the pretzel idea. I am watching my waist line, but that cake looks so yummy and sounds yummy.
That cake sounds AMAZING! I must make one.
We made a heart shaped cake too on Sunday (oops) but it was just a box cake with pink frosting, yours sounds fabulous-er...;) Playing along for the first time, have a great Wednesday.
I think there is some kind of universal law that calories don't count on Valentine's Day. Yep, pretty sure about that!
We went to the mall and ate out:)
It sounds like it was a wonderful day! I've never made red velvet cake but I'd like to try it. Of course, if it's 2000 calories, maybe not.
Yummy! How fun!
Sounds like you had lots of fun! We made a heart shaped cake for Daddy this year. :)
It looks like a great time!
I didn't realize you were a SERIOUS blogger! I'm in AWE. Your blog is awesome. You'll have to teach us all some tricks! Do you do your own designs? Have a great day!
The cake sounds devine and the frosting...even better!
What a fun time!
I looooove all cake. That is my new bad habit!
Sounds like a wonderful family holiday! (you know how much I love baking...too much) Your kids are soooo lucky Angie! The cake sounds like it was to die for, mmmm-mmmm.
I'm not going to click on the recipe link, I'm not going to click on the recipe link.... ;)
That cake looks delicious! I bet you had a beautiful mess afterwards. I love family baking :)
Happy sweets days!!
Cute pictures...looks like fun!!! Oh and I love crunchy pretzels much better than soft!!! Especially when they are warm...yummy!!
What a fun Valentine's Day!! Man, that cake has me drooling all over my desk ...
that looks spectacular!!!
Marshmallows? Coconut? Say no more. Sounds awesome!
What a fun day you all had! Love the idea of the pretzels.
MMMmmm.Makes me hungry. Looks like you had a great time baking!!
I love doing stuff like this for the holidays! Makes them special. And your kids will remember them forever!! It as one of the things I just loved doing with my own mom. My daughter and I still do it and she's 22!! Everything looks fabulous!!
I've been making RV cake for Luke's bday (since he was almost my Valentine baby) for 10 years now. This year, he wanted a Lego cake. Sigh. Oh well. Too bad he wasn't a girl. I'm KIDDING! OMH. What would I do with FOUR girls! Kill myself.
Love the pretzel idea though. Not that I'll ever do it. I'm a tad on the lazy side I've decided. But such a good idea...
that looks like so much fun!!! i love the cake!
i adore red velvet cake! those red dyed heart shaped pretzels are a great idea...i am saving it for next year.
That looks like so much fun! I love those ideas!
The cake sounds so yummy! What a fun Valentines! I am sure your kids will remember it:)
first time here...love your blog!
Looks like a sweet day!
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