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Valentine’s Day recipes

The way to the heart is through the stomach

Do you already know what you want to give to your dearest on Valentine’s Day? What about a stylish heart of yarn on a pinboard? Or a sweet love message? If you prefer a pretty cookie box filled with various treats then this article is for you! After we have already shown you many possibilities in the article „DIY Valentine’s Day gift ideas“ how to make your sweethearts‘ eyes sparkle, we are now dealing with the question how to literally seduce your girlfriend or boyfriend with unique taste experiences. Today we want to show you how to make delicious donuts, sugar sweet cakepops, finest chocolates and many more. Let’s get started with the feast!

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Homemade chocolates

This Valentine’s Day gift idea is really easy to make and with the wide range of different shapes there is certainly something for everybody. You can also fill the chocolates, as long as the chocolate is still fluid. When you melt the chocolate it is important to know a few tricks, so here we go with the detailed instructions:

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	300 g	chocolate
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	2 strips	of chocolate moulds
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	optional	decoration or filling

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Break the chocolate in small pieces so that it can melt faster and more evenly. Put the chocolate into a small bowl and melt it over a saucepan of hot, but not boiling water.

Also the hot water must not touch the bowl otherwise the chocolate could become too hot and does not solidify properly. It is best to use a cooking thermometer. Dark chocolate works with 55 degrees, light chocolate with 45 degrees. If the chocolate is melted you can fill it in the moulds so that the bottom of the moulds is covered. You can also spread some sugar crumble into the moulds in advance and then pour the chocolate over it.

Now you can add the filling in the middle of the moulds, for example macadamia or hazel nuts. Finally, pour the remaining chocolate in the moulds and let the chocolates solidify overnight.

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Creative donuts

Donuts are loved by everybody and especially they are a feast for the eyes! That’s why homemade and wonderfully decorated donuts are the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for him & her. There are so many possibilities to decorate the donuts, starting with mini marshmallows to edible stars and pearls over to artful decoration with food colouring – there are no limits to your creativity.

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	375 g	wheat flour
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1 package	of dry yeast
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	150 ml	milk
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	50 g	sugar
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	60 g	butter
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1	egg
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	Pinch	of salt
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]		Plant oil for baking
		For the glaze:
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	100 g	chocolate
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]		optional some toppings (e.g. mini marshmallows)

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Heat the milk in a jar and melt the butter. Mix the wheat flour with the dry yeast. Then add the milk-butter mixture and the other ingredients (except for chocolate, oil and topping) and mix everything with the dough hook for five minutes. Then cover the bowl with a tea towel and leave it at a warm place for at least 30 minutes.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface and roll it to a thickness of approximately 1 cm and cut out the donuts with a donut cutter. Alternatively you can use two glasses with different sizes. Heat the oil to 180°C. You can check the heat by holding a wooden handle into the oil – when bubbles arise, you can start. Now bake the donuts from both sides for two minutes. Fish them out of the oil pan and drain them on a kitchen roll.

Melt the chocolate and cover the donuts with it. As long as the chocolate is still liquid you can decorate your donuts with the toppings of your choice.

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Sweet cakepops

This Valentine’s Day gift idea is from the US and is becoming more and more popular here in Germany. Cakepops always come with a wow effect as they do not only taste sweet with the decoration but they also look incredibly great!

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	150 g	sugar
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	150 g	butter
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	3	eggs
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	150 g	flour
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1 teaspoon	baking powder
		For the glaze:
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	100 g	chocolate
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]		Optional some toppings (e.g. mini marshmallows)

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Beat butter and sugar for five minutes to a creamy mass. Add the eggs one after another and stir everything. Add the flour and the baking powder and mix everything to a smooth dough. Grease the shapes of the cakepopmaker very well, preheat them and fill the bottom of the mould with a spray bag.

Bake the cakepops for five minutes, let them cool down and then spike them on a wooden stick. Melt the chocolate and cover the cakepops with it. As long as the chocolate is still liquid you can decorate your donuts with the toppings of your choice.

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Red cake hearts

Do you want to give your heart away on Valentine’s Day? If yes, I recommend red cake hearts. They can also be decorated and you can serve them on Valentine’s Day or present them as a beautiful gift. The DIY packages can be perfectly used as gift boxes to store these beautiful, edible hearts.

The making is very simple. Just make a quick cake mix and add red food colouring. Then fill the dough into a suitable cake mould. After the baking cut the cake into 3-4 cm thick slices and then cut out little hearts.

Recipe for the red mixing dough:

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	80 g	butter
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	120 g	flour
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	80 g	sugar
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1	egg
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1 teaspoon	of baking powder
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]		Pinch of salt
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]		Red food colouring

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Beat butter and sugar for five minutes to a creamy mass. Add the eggs one after another and stir everything. Add food colouring, flour and baking powder and process everything to a smooth dough.

Fill the dough in a greased form and bake the cake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for 30 minutes.

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Cup Cakes

I guess you all already know cup cakes and that they can be wonderfully decorated. Therefore they should not be missing when it comes to recipe ideas for Valentine’s Day. For the dough I used the same cake mix like I used for the red heart cookies, but just without the food colouring. Therefore I decided to limit the recipe to the topping, which I have also coloured again with food colouring. In addition, I have covered the muffins with fondant. Since I am still a beginner, I leave the explanation rather to a professional and thus I would like to refer to the instructions of „Mann Backt“:

Recipe of coloured cream-cheese-vanilla frosting

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	50 g	butter
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	50 g	cream cheese
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	50 g	icing sugar
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1	vanilla pod
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]		Food colouring

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Beat the soft butter creamy, then add the icing sugar and stir everything. Add cream cheese, marrow from the vanilla pod and food colouring. Fill the frosting into a spray bag and spread it over the muffins.

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Chocolate on a stick

As a variation of the chocolates described above, chocolate on a stick, possibly even with nuts or filling, is another brilliant gift idea. With this idea, of course, the extra portion of love should not be missing. Making is very simple and the recipe of the chocolates can easily be used here. With the exception that there are special forms in which the sticks can be put. With the great forms, I have linked you further down, you can also make delicious soft caramel or homemade lollipops.

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Pair cookies

Do you know anybody who does not like cookies? Well, I don‘t – so why shall we not express our love with cookies instead of flowers? The special thing about these butter cookies ist that they can be shaped in any way you want and so you can create hearts, cookie pairs or letters to express your feelings with these cookies. Of course, you can also decorate these cookies to give them an even more personal touch.

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[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	500 g	flour
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	200 g	sugar
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1	vanilla dish
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1	egg
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	2	egg yolk
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	1 Prs.	salt
[icon type=“glyphicon glyphicon-ok“]	350 g	butter

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Mix all the ingredients except for the egg yolk to a smooth dough. Keep the dough on a cold place for an hour. Cut out shapes from the dough and place it on a baking tray covered with baking paper. Spread the egg yolk on the cookies and put them in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.

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Which recipe did you like best? XX, Christina Key

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Homemade gifts are simply the best
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and therefore you should think about what to prepare for your loved ones. For all those getting stressed right now since they spent all their money for the last Christmas presents, I have fantastic news for you! In this post I want to show you beautiful Valentine’s Day gift ideas with wow-factor that are homemade and above all absolutely not expensive.

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Homemade gifts are simply the best

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and therefore you should think about what to prepare for your loved ones. If you need food inspiration, you should check out my Valentine’s Day recipes article. For all those getting stressed right now since they spent all their money for the last Christmas presents, I have fantastic news for you! In this post I want to show you beautiful Valentine’s Day gift ideas with wow-factor that are homemade and above all absolutely not expensive.

At least after my article LOW BUDGET photo tips you might have noticed that I like to use household items and similar objects. Since DIY gifts are more appreciated than bought presents we can hit two birds with one stone today. In order that you can create these ideas even easier I have linked the products which I have used to make the gifts. If you want to steal one of the ideas anyway I would be very grateful if you could just click on a linked product. Thus, I get a small commission and can write more such articles for all of you ? ♥ The good thing about these gift ideas is that they can also be made for other holidays such as Mother’s Day, St. Nicholas Day or birthdays, as well as just to bring along as a nice souvenirs when you’re invited somewhere. Now that many, many super cool gift ideas are waiting for you let’s not talk too much but let’s do the job properly. Are you curious? Let’s go!

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Pin box make-over

This Valentine’s Day gift idea is unisex and can both be given to ladies & gentlemen. The basic module for this gift is a pin box which can of course be replaced by any other box. Also when it comes to design the box you can vary according to your preferences. For this gift I chose a transparent pin box on which I have attached pretty flowers. Such a box can be filled perfectly with homemade chocolates (like mine), sweets, love letters, vouchers and more.

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Film container with ombré look

The more mature readers still might know them: the film containers from analogue times. These containers can be perfectly used as sweet wrapping for personal gift ideas just like necklaces, rings or little love messages. Filled with some cotton, you can protect the piece of jewellery perfectly that you want to give away. By the way, the cotton reminds of cotton candy, especially when you grab the pink cotton wool.

Of course, this container does not look so pretty in raw state, so I painted it with nail varnish in ombré style. The golden pendant that I put in my finished film container I have glued myself with glitter dust. Such sweet heart pendants can be found in the children’s jewellery department for little money.
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Sweetheart Bottle Mail

This Valentine’s Day gift idea is especially perfect for newly in love couples but also for couples who have been together for some time. This bottle mail is very personal and above all very original. All you need for this DIY gift idea is a sweet bottle, heart-shaped glitter confetti, some natural cord and of course your love message.
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Sweet storage box

This beautiful Valentine’s Day gift idea is perfect to present sweets, cookies, small cakes, homemade chocolate, bathing balls and more. For this gift I chose an old Pullmoll box, that once contained herbal candies, and I redesigned it with a lot of nail varnish.

To create this star look you simply need to apply circles on the box with the nail varnish and pull them outwards with a wooden stick. As the basic colour I chose cherry red. In addition, I used pink and white nail varnish. I painted the edge of the can in the same colours but with different patterns.
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Self-made rose scrub

For this sugar-sweet rose peeling you only need two ingredients: sugar and rose petals. I recommend using organic roses as they are free of harmful substances. To make the sugar scrub, simply blend some sugar with the rose petals of about two rose buds and fill the finished scrub into a pretty glass bottle. You can simply use an empty salad dressing bottle for example or a similar bottle. To make the bottle even more decorative you can download pretty labels for free in the download field below. With a little cord you can wrap the bottle neck and add another label, for example „made with love“. Only the juice of the rose petals gave this sugar scrub its pretty pink colour.

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Glamorous surprising box

Ready for a little surprise? With this super cool surprising box sparkling eyes are guaranteed! Just pack some fluffy feathers or confetti in the box and hide your real little gifts like a necklace, a ring, a voucher, a key for a new car or a newly renovated room or a separate locked jewellery box. As packaging you can simply use a paper box that you can decorate with sparkling jewellery.

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Marbled cups

Cups are a great gift idea for Valentine’s day, because we use them every day. You can either use designed cups or one-coloured cups and design them yourself. I used nail varnish for my cups (see picture below) by giving it drop by drop into a bowl filled with water. In order to get the marble effect, simply pull a wooden stick through the nail varnish you have put into the water. Then hold the cups directly into the water and turn them in a way that all the surfaces you want to paint are coloured.

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Love drinks

With this love drinks you do not only delight men but also women. Just take the favourite drinks of your loved ones and wrap them beautifully. Of course you can also attach small love messages directly to the bottles.
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Pretty (cookie) boxes

As the saying goes „love goes through the stomach“ and thus a perfect Valentine’s Day gift should also include some sweets. But even the most beautiful cookies can’t show off without the right packaging. That’s why I want to show you three different cookie boxes.These can be simply conjured from old crisp boxes or cookie jars or with old preserving jars.
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Retro

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Minimalistic

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Heart of yarn on a pinboard

Of course, the symbolic heart belongs to the celebration of love. With this stylish pinboard with a heart made of strings you will surely make your loved ones very happy. Unlike chocolates or a pretty bouquet of flowers this cool pinboard made of cork lasts for a lifetime. Once hung up, it always reminds us of love – ain’t that great? For this homemade Valentine’s Day gift you only need three things: a pinboard, some yarn and many pins. First step is to pin the contour of your favourite motive on the pinboard. I recommend using a paper stencil to make it more even. Then, you loop the yarn around each pin at least once. Go ahead, up and down, from left to right. The more lines you create with the yarn, the more dense your picture will become in the end.
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Much success for you!

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How do you like my DIY Valentine’s Day gift ideas?

Let me have your opinion! ? XX, Christina Key ♥

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