Instructions

• Step 1: Make heart-shaped pancakes Make heart-shaped pancakes for the whole family. Prepare the pancake batter according to package directions and add a few drops red food coloring.
• Step 2: Make the pancakes Cook the pancakes on a skillet and use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut out hearts. These will win the heart of everyone.
• Step 3: Make heart shape in oatmeal Put on a smile on your child's face by drizzling a heart shape with honey onto their bowl of oatmeal.
• Step 4: Enjoy a love potion Enjoy a lemon love potion with your child. Combine the raspberry sherbet with the lemonade. Then add the lemon soda, stir, and enjoy.
• Step 5: Paint a Valentine cookie Paint your own Valentine sugar cookie using edible paint. Mix the egg yolk and water in a small bowl and then add a few drops of red food coloring.
• TIP: Add enough food coloring to get your desired shade of red.
• Step 6: Paint cookie Paint a Valentine design on your unbaked sugar cookies. Then bake them according to package directions. Have fun baking together, and happy Valentine's Day!
• FACT: The first commercial Valentine's Day greeting cards produced in the U.S. were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland.

You Will Need

• Pancake mix
• Red food coloring
• Honey
• Oatmeal
• 1 c. raspberry sherbet
• 1 c. pink lemonade
• 12 oz. can lemon soda
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tsp. water
• Unbaked sugar cookies
• Equipment:
• Heart-shaped cookie cuter
• Paintbrush