Valentine's Archives - AKAMom Magazine https://akamommagazine.com/tag/valentines/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:56:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://akamommagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-AKA-Logo-favicon-V2-32x32.png Valentine's Archives - AKAMom Magazine https://akamommagazine.com/tag/valentines/ 32 32 Show Off Your Sweet Side This Valentine’s Day https://akamommagazine.com/lifestyle/food/show-off-your-sweet-side-this-valentines-day/ https://akamommagazine.com/lifestyle/food/show-off-your-sweet-side-this-valentines-day/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:20:51 +0000 https://r75u5rlz9e.onrocket.site/?p=10562 Treat family, friends and co-workers to something they will all love this Valentine’s Day by making easy and impressive cookies.

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Treat family, friends and co-workers to something they will all love this Valentine’s Day by making easy and impressive cookies. Start with your favorite roll-out cookie recipe or simply dress up store-bought ones by adding some simple details with icing.

From the cupids at Wilton, here are three ways to leave them smitten with sweets this Valentine’s Day: 

  • Desserts with dimension. Triple your treats by stacking three decorated cookies in different sizes together and attach them with icing.
  • Complement with color. A simple piping technique looks stunning when piped in different colors on your cookies.
  • Get to gifting. Wrap your finished treats in a Valentine’s Day treat bag or box.

For more fun and delicious Valentine’s Day recipes, baking tips and inspiration, visit www.wilton.com.

Stackable Ombre Heart Cookies

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  • Each stacked cookie serves 1.
  • Favorite roll-out cookie recipe
  • Royal icing (recipe on wilton.com)
  • Rose Icing Color
  • Heart Micro Mini Icing Decorations

Directions:

Prepare and roll out cookie dough following recipe directions. Use 3 smallest cutters from 4-piece heart nesting cookie cutter set to cut out shapes. Bake and cool cookies.

Divide royal icing into three equal portions, and tint 3 shades of rose. Thin a portion of each shade following recipe directions. Use tip 3 and full-strength tinted icing to outline cookies. Use thinned tinted icing in cut decorating bag to fill in cookies; gently tap to smooth icing. Let dry overnight.

Use icing to attach cookies, stacking largest to smallest; place icing decoration on top.

Scalloped Heart Cookies

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  • Each cookie serves 1.
  • Favorite roll-out cookie recipe
  • Ready-To-Use White Creamy Decorator Icing
  • Icing Colors: Burgundy, Red-Red and Christmas Red

Directions:

Prepare and roll out dough following recipe directions. Use largest cutter from the 4-piece heart nesting cookie cutter set to cut out shape. Bake and cool cookies.

Divide icing into four equal portions. Tint one of each portion light burgundy, dark burgundy and combination of red-red/Christmas red. Reserve last portion white.

Starting from top edge of heart, use tip 102 and icing in dark burgundy, light burgundy, red and white to pipe V-shaped groups of two petals, one piped from left and one from right, to create row of petals in alternating colors. Repeat with second row between petals in first row. Continue to repeat pattern until cookies are covered.

 

 

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“What I wonder,” I say watching my kids make Valentines cards on the kitchen table, “is what kind of genius schedules a celebration of love in the dead of winter?” 

“That genius was a priest, Dad!” my older son informs me as he opens a bag of Sweethearts—those little heart-shaped candy precursors to text messaging stamped with suggestive phrases like UR HOT, B MINE, and LETS DO LUNCH.  “Saint Valentine died on February 14th.”   

Then, after a reflective pause, he reaches for a glue stick and asks, “Dad, did you ever give someone a Valentines card when you were my age?” 

He is in middle school and I am not prepared for his question.    “Of course not,” I shoot back without thinking, “when I was your age girls had cooties.” 

My daughter looks up, startled.  “I have cooties?” she stammers. 

“No sweetie,” I reassure her. “When a boy likes a girl he says she has cooties so that he can pretend he really doesn’t like her.   Then he gets a cootie shot so he can catch the cooties he says he doesn’t want.”

“But Daddy, that’s silly.  Why would boys do that?”

“Because boys really do have cooties.” I explain. “They burrow into our heads and short circuit our brains and make us act all goofy.  Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to find a girl who doesn’t mind the fact that we have cooties and act really goofy.”

My older son scoffs: “Dad, that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.”

I am too late.  Cooties are busy rewiring his brain and he understands that Valentines Day has more to do with birds and bees than it does with martyred saints.  “Nice card,” I say, straining to see what he has written.  “Who is it for?”

He looks surprised, like I am the kind of genius who wonders why romance is celebrated in the middle of February.  “It’s for Mom.” he says. “Who do you think it’s for?”

I smile and flip a candy heart in my mouth.  B TRUE it says.  We still have some time before the Love Birds sing.

 

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