I ♥ French Toast

Heart Shaped French Toast

Heart shaped cookie cutters can do more than just make cookies in February, use them year round to make a special breakfast for the ones you love most.

Sometimes I wake up to both a grumpy toddler and a grumpy husband, so when I made these french toast hearts for breakfast yesterday it completely changed the overall mood in our home.

I reused the Linzer heart shaped cookie cutter center for the butter cutout, and a larger heart cutter for the bread. The bread scraps don’t have go to waste, I just make small french toast strips.

My favorite fluffy french toast recipe.

Pizza Boy

Pizza fun faces for kids

While I was getting dinner started yesterday, my 2 year old son asked me if he could play with the pizza dough, I realize he thought it was play dough! So, I thought, well why not? And so, pizza boy was created.

After baking, yummy

After baking, yummy

I flipped a cereal bowl upside down onto the rolled out dough, then using a knife, cut around the bowl to make a nice circle for the face.

Brushed the dough with melted olive oil and chopped garlic (I microwave the oil and garlic for about 1 minute to soften the garlic a bit and flavor the oil). Then added some chopped basil, cherry tomatoes, olives, with plenty of mozzarella cheese.

My son was giggling and participating in the whole process. He was so excited while waiting for “pizza boy” to cook in the oven (about 10-12 min @ 350). He ate everything, narrating exactly what part of the face he was about to eat. Talk about making dinner fun!

Raspberry Heart Linzer Cookies

Raspberry Heart shaped Linzer Cookies
If there ever was a perfectly obvious cookie choice made for Valentines Day, its got to be this one. Doesn’t it just scream Valentines Day?

After quite a bit of internet surfing for a Linzer cookie recipe, I couldn’t find one that sounded easy and for which I had all the ingredients. So I took a stab at making my own. They came out amazing! The dough was easy to work with, and the most important thing… they tasted delicious, light and buttery with a nice almond lemon flavor.
Making the dough was the easy part. I let it chill in the fridge while I did our usual bedtime routine with my son. Then worked for 2 hours on baking and decorating all of them. Exhausting but worth it! Here is how to make them…

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Snap Crackle Pop… I love you!

Heart Shaped Valentines Day Rice Crispie Treats

We made early Valentine’s Day treats this year because I had a yearning to do a fun baking project with my son. I haven’t had a rice crispie treat in years… since I was a kid myself, and I forgot how yummy they are! This is a great project to do with a toddler, my son helped me press out the crispies into the pan, use the cookie cutter, add sprinkles, and of course lick the chocolate spoon. Really simple and easy treat to make and share with friends!
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