Love my Valentines

Valentine's Day gets better and better every year, especially with my cute little boy. He made his first Valentine for me and I couldn't have been a happier mom!

My husband participated in making me feel super special by bringing home some cake pops from Sweet E's for me. Awww....what a sweet guy!

YUM! I wanted to wait until after dinner to savor these beauties, but they barely survived a few photos. Delicious and moist!

Easy Valentine Treats

Bakerella doesn't leave the baking-challenged behind. If you aren't a baking genius, then give these "Easy Valentine Treats" a try. She even uses a box cake mix in her recipe.

All of you need to make these special red velvet moon pies is a red velvet cake mix, butter, eggs, cream cheese, confectioner's sugar, and vanilla. I bet you could even use cream cheese frosting from a jar to make this recipe even easier.

Cookies/Cake
1 Box red velvet cake mix
1/2 Cup butter, softened to room temperature
2 Eggs

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix ingredients until combined.
• Drop spoonfuls of cookie batter onto baking sheet about two inches apart.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes.
• Cool.

Cream Cheese Filling
1/2 Cup butter, softened to room temperature
1 8 oz. Package cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1 1lb. Box of confectioner's sugar
1 tsp Vanilla

• In a mixer, cream butter, cream cheese and vanilla.
• Gradually add sugar and mix until smooth.

Makes about 24 cookies or 12 cookie sandwiches

Cake? Chocolates?

As you can probably tell from all of my raving, I think Bakerella is a baking genius! She just oozes creativity. This may look like a box of chocolates, but it is actually a cake! And the chocolates on top are actually a variation of her famous cupcake bites.


Check out her post to get her detailed instructions of how to make this beautiful dessert. She also included pictures for people like me that need visuals. This is a perfect dessert for Valentine's, if you have the guts to attempt it.

Local Valentine's Goodies

Sprinkles (in Newport Beach) is doing a XOX Box for Valentine's Day. They do a holiday-inspired box for almost every holiday throughout the year. The flavors in this box include red HOT velvet (red velvet with spicy cinnamon cream cheese frosting), chocolate marshmallow, dark chocolate, and vanilla. The XOX box is available from Feb. 6-15. I haven't been to Sprinkles in a while, so maybe I need to stop by to try their new red velvet flavor.


My favorite cupcakery in Orange County, SusieCakes (in Newport Beach) usually has holiday-inspired cupcakes and desserts too. I found that they sell these Frosted Hearts sugar cookies. SusieCakes's chocolate chip cookies are also some of my all-time favorite cookies! I can't wait to see what flavors of cupcakes they will offer for Valentine's Day!

Love and cupcakes are in the air!

I love holidays that revolve around food, so it seems appropriate that I would love Valentine's Day. I do! Last year my husband got me an Edible Arrangement with chocolate-covered strawberries. So good!

This year I am hoping for something cupcake-related....a Peanut Butter cupcake from SusieCakes or a Pumpkin cupcake from Sprinkles or a Chocolate Coconut cupcakes from Bristol Farms. We'll see if he picks up on my hints!

Love = Sweets = Cupcakes!

Is there any holiday more appropriate for cupcakes than Valentine's Day? I know what you are thinking...didn't Christmas just end? Yes, it did. And now we are moving on to the sweetest holiday of them all (Halloween may involve more sugar, but it sure isn't sweet).

I'm not sure why sweets are associated with Valentine's Day, but I certainly don't mind. Check out round one of some adorable Valentine cupcakes.

Image via flickr

Image via flickr

Image via flickr

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