Valentine's Day Sweat Treats

Valentine's Day is a great day to celebrate love and happiness, with your other half, husband or close friends. It's also a great time to get into the kitchen and make some less than ordinary (probably heart shaped) food goodies. We've found some great ideas for valentine's snacks and breakfast ideas that can be easily made on the day!

These delicious looking skewers are simply made from strawberries, marshmallows and brownie pieces. 

These great looking eton mess skewers are made from pieces of shortbread, strawberries and whipped cream. 

Get different types of fruit and cut our heart shapes with a small cookie cutter to make colourful fruit skewers. 

For fried egg lovers, simply cut out a heart shape in some toast and pop it in the frying pan and fry an egg in the middle. 

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Valentine's Day Recipe

Valentine's Day wouldn't be the same without some kind of heart shaped snack, and we've created the ultimate Valentines victoria sponge heart cake.

Ingredients:
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g softened butter
- 4 eggs beaten
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp milk

Firstly I made a heart shape from baking paper for both the cake tins, and buttered the sides. This will make the cakes easy to get out of the tin when they've cooked.

Collect all your ingredients together, and mix together your caster sugar, softened butter, baking powder and self raising flour. Once this has created a smooth mixture, add in the beaten eggs and milk.

Pour the mixture into your cake tins and cook for 20 minutes until golden. 

I cooled my cakes down, and topped them with icing sugar for that finishing touch, adding some butter cream icing and jam in the middle! 

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