Valentine Pancakes Recipe

Ingredients:

    * pancake mix
    * red food coloring

Directions:

Using your favorite pancake batter recipe, spoon the batter into a heated skillet to form a heart. This method can also be used to form other fun shapes.

You can make the pancakes look more festive by adding food coloring to the batter (a couple of drops of red for a pink batter) and adding chocolate or cherry chips

Valentine Pie

Ingredients:

    * 1 cup Water
    * 3 ounces Strawberry Gelatin Powder
    * 1 pint Vanilla Ice Cream
    * 1 Chocolate Crumb Pie Crust
    * Hershey's® Kisses

Directions:

In a 4-cup glass measuring cup stir together water and gelatin. Cook, uncovered, on 100% power (high) for 1 1/2 to2 minutes.

Add vanilla ice cream to the hot gelatin mixture, stirring till ice cream is melted. Chill mixture for 35 to 30 minutes, stirring twice during chilling (the mixture should mound when you drop it from a spoon.

Pour chilled ice cream mixture into pie shell. Chill about 4 hours or till ice cream is set.

Arrange milk chocolate kisses in a heart shape on top of pie.

Valentine Salad

Ingredients:

    * 1 package gelatin -- lemon flavored
    * 2 cups water -- fruit juice
    * 10 marshmallows -- cut in pieces
    * 1/2 cup apricots -- cut and drained
    * 1/2 cup dates -- cut
    * 1/2 cup maraschino cherries -- sliced
    * 1/2 cup celery -- finely cut
    * 1 cup grapefruit -- canned, drained

Directions:

Dissolve gelatin in 1 cup hot water or fruit juice and add the remaining cup of cold liquid. Chill until partly set, then add remaining ingredients. Pour into individual heart-shaped molds and chill. Unmold for serving on chicory or curly endive which will give a lacy effect. Garnish each salad with an arrow of mayonnaise forced through a pastry tube.