Red and pink recipes are fun for Valentine's Day for kids, for families, and for couples. Foods from breakfast to lunch side dishes, dessert and even potatoes can be made into pink dishes. Making these Valentine Day recipes do not just involve adding red food coloring to your favorite dessert recipes. Red food dye can be added, but there are also foods that are naturally red which can be used to make fun or romantic Valentine's Day recipes.
Valentine's Day Recipes: How to Make Your Favorite Foods Red or Pink
Breakfast
In addition to serving pink grapefruit or fresh strawberries, you can also make your favorite breakfast foods pink or red.
Pink Yogurt: Blend some crushed fresh or frozen strawberries into plain yogurt to make it pink.
For kids, add some strawberry syrup to their milk cereal, for a Valentine's Day morning treat.
Naturally Red Foods to Serve at Lunch
You can also add a festive red Valentine's Day surprise to a salad with sliced or diced beets, shredded purple cabbage, or radishes.
Keep the peel on red apple slices for a red Valentine's Day snack.
Pink lemonade will compliment your fun Valentine's Day lunch. You can add cranberry juice to regular lemonade to turn it pink.
Another pink food you can make for lunch is pink potato salad. Make your favorite potato salad recipe, and use Catalina dressing with the other dressings for a pleasing pink potato salad.
Turn Dinner Foods Red
You can add red peppers, tomato sauce, or salsa to your dinner. Adding salsa or tomato sauce to white rice will give the whole dish a nice red color.
Or you can add curry to rice to turn it red.
Serve a roasted duck or pork dish with a sweet cherry sauce for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner.
Vegetarians can add kidney beans to a stew, a salad or other baked dish.
Other foods besides beet juice which can be used to naturally turn foods pink or red including pomegranates or pomegranate juice, and Maraschino cherries.
Pink Snacks
Cinnamon Apple Sauce
Cook those winter storage apples with some cinnamon red hots to make some pink and tasty warm applesauce for the whole family.
Pink Peppermint Sugar Cookie Hearts
Mix your favorite sugar cookie recipe with crushed up left-over candy canes. Or you can probably find a very discounted box of candy canes at the local drugstore or grocery store. Keep half of the dough plane and add finely crushed peppermint candy canes to the other half of the dough.
Roll into tubes and twist one plain tube with a peppermint tube. Shape into hearts and bake.
White and Red Cake
Make a boxed white cake mix in a rectangular pan. After it has completely cooled, make some jello. While the water for the Jell-o is boiling, use a fork to pole holes through the cake, making sure the fork fully penetrates the cake, making deep holes, without removing the cake.
Subtract one quarter cup of water from the Jello-recipe. Pour the hot liquid Jello-o on top of the cake. This may sound funny, and it may look like the cake will be one big soggy mess, but it won't be. It will be the moistest cake you've ever had.
Refrigerate and serve with your favorite whipped topping.
This recipe can also be made with low-sugar cake mix and sugar-free Jell-o.
Use cherry Jell-o for a red cake, or watermelon Jell-o for a pink cake.
Red Velvet Cake
You can now buy Red Velvet Cake mix at the supermarket. The store-bought Red Velvet Cake mixes contain a lot of red dye, and the cake can be bothersome to sensitive stomachs. Try not to serve this type of cake to a loved one who may have a sensitive stomach ,especially if you are looking forward to a romantic Valentine's Day.
Red Food Coloring
One or two drops of red food coloring can also be used to color foods pink. Add to mashed potatoes, frosting, sour cream, or any other white foods that you want to turn pink.
Dessert Decorations
Decorate any Valentine's Day desserts with leftover colored red sugar from Christmas, red M & Ms, NECCO SweetHearts, Dove chocolate hearts, or cinnamon red hots.
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