Valentine’s Day Recipes

Valentine Muffins

Ingredients:

6 tablespoons butter

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

14 strawberries, fresh or defrosted frozen

Food coloring, optional

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon baking powder

Hershey's Kisses, Hugs or strawberry jam

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar. The

chef can do this with a wooden spoon, a potato masher or a handheld electric mixer.

Mix in the eggs, one at a time, and add the milk.

Tip: Instead of cracking the eggs into the batter, have the chef crack them into a

small bowl first. Remind him to whack them hard and pick out any shells.

Rinse the strawberries and cut off the greens with a plastic knife (a fun job for 3- to

-year-olds who are accustomed to cutting play dough). Mash the berries with a

potato masher or puree in a blender. Then stir the berries into the butter and milk

mixture.

Tip: For muffins with a more pronounced pink color, add a few drops of red liquid

food coloring or dabs of paste coloring.

In a separate bowl, ask the chef to sift the flour, salt and baking powder. Stir well.

Tip: If you are cooking with more than one child, let the kids take turns cranking

the sifter. Also, be sure your baking powder is fresh and that all of it makes it into

the bowl. Explain that this key ingredient makes the muffins rise.

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