In the common imagination, Valentine's Day is the couple's party, but if we understand it as the anniversary in which we celebrate love, we can involve our children transforming it into a day that is probably less romantic but still very full of joy and little hearts.
If you have one or more small children, in reality, perhaps you will not even need to completely abandon the romance because at some point, if you are lucky, they will sleep peacefully, happy to have spent a good time with mom and dad, and you can spend the rest of the evening in a more intimate way.
With older children the game becomes more complicated because sending them to bed early, especially if there is an air of family celebration, is almost impossible; at that point it is better to involve them in the celebrations .
Valentine's Day with children: we prepare dinner
Children love to mess around in the kitchen; let's organize ourselves to prepare simple and cheerful dishes together with our children .
The aim must be to let the children breathe the love that exists in the family, between mum and dad, but also towards them, so notice the sophisticated and complicated dinners and a nice heart-shaped pizza. a good and healthy kamut pizza, with tomato and mozzarella, as children like.
Together with the pizza we prepare some crunchy vegetables to be enjoyed in pinzimonio and a nice bowl of popcorn, which represent a much healthier alternative to French fries and can be prepared together with the children.
You could also have fun making some salatino in the shape of a heart, with a good homemade brisè pasta.
Finally, fresh fruit salad and a beautiful chocolate cake. Here is the recipe!
Ideas for a naturally magical Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day cake to prepare with children
Which ingredient is more suitable than chocolate to celebrate love? Nobody! So let's have a nice chocolate cake . Let us not worry too much that it is beautiful, but that it is good and prepared with the collaboration of the whole family.
A recipe suitable for a Valentine's Day cake to be made with children ?
Ingredients :
> 150 grams of dark chocolate drops,
> 2 tablespoons of bitter cocoa,
> 100 grams of whole cane sugar,
> 125 grams of whole vanilla yogurt,
> 50 grams of butter or margarine,
> 3 eggs,
> a pinch of salt,
> 150 grams of 00 flour,
> a sachet of vanilla yeast for cakes.
Preparation : add the drops of dark chocolate to the flour. With the help of an electric mixer, mix the yoghurt, the sugar and the melted butter well. Add the bitter cocoa and salt and continue stirring. Whisk the egg yolks and mix them with the mixture, slowly add the flour with the chocolate drops, stirring constantly, and finally the vanilla yeast for cakes.
Grease and flour a heart-shaped mold and bake at 180 ° for 25/30 minutes. If you do not have a heart-shaped mold, a round or square mold will also be fine; the hearts can be added later as a decoration.
The cake should be prepared in the morning, or the evening before Valentine's Day, in order to have time to decorate it after having cooled it well.
As decoration you could use chocolate icing or whipped cream. And to enrich the decor, the inevitable little red hearts. Make the children do the decoration, it does not matter if it is not perfect, what really matters is to have fun preparing it together, with love.
