Once again… my kids are too young to have any idea WHEN the holidays are. My colon was acting up and I was feeling pretty crappy on Valentines day and actually slept through most of the day.

SOOOOOOOOO… I decided that with my Post Valentine finds I would just celebrate late! After church today I cooked brunch which consisted of Heart Shaped Pancakes, Cheese Eggs, Bacon and Pine-Orange Banana Juice. I cannot remember a holiday breakfast as a kid that did NOT include Pine Orange Banana Juice. Its the best ever!

I used my brand new Wilton Heart Shaped Cookie cutters that I scored the day after Valentines to Cut the pancakes. My kids thought it was GREAT! For some reason my kids call hearts “dreams”. Owen informed me that it was the best day ever that they got to eat “dreamcakes”.

So today… you too are going to learn how to make heart shaped pancakes!

I would post a recipe here but I am just too darn lazy to make my own pancake batter so I use the amazing and wonderful Krusteez! 1 cup of Pancake mix, 3/4 cup of water… why would anyone do anything else??

Cook pancakes (thin ones work best) a little larger than the desired size cookie cutter.

Allow the pancake to cool for a few minutes (lest you burn yourself like I did! I am beginning to think that my posts about cooking are going to become a commentary on how NOT to burn yourself while cooking various recipes!).

But WHAT are the scissors for? Well if you do not own a pair of COOKING scissors… mine are regular fiskars… you don’t know what you have been missing! I keep this pair clean just for food. The outer part of the pancakes can be tough to cut through with plastic cookie cutters BUT no worries… at the very least you make an IMPRINT of the heart shape then use the Kitchen scissors to trim off the excess!

Use the cutter to cut out the largest heart. As with cookie dough there is usually left over.

As a side note: My cookie cutter set ROCKS because it has big all the way down to teeny tiny hearts! So I used the leftover pieces to make smaller ones to stack. PLUS… we have to cut Kyleigh’s food into VERY small pieces because she chokes easily or will just ignore something altogether if not properly cut! So the smallest heart was absolutely perfectly sized for her!

I also thought these might be good with a strawberry glaze instead of syrup. I might try that next year!

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