- So Valentine's Day is right around the corner,
and if you are anything like me,
you forget about it every single year,
and then you are trying to figure out
some last-minute fun things to do for your partner.
So I thought today,
I would show you three stupid easy recipes
for Valentine's Day
that you can kind of just like whip up really quick
if you forgot, or you're not very creative,
or you don't know how to cook,
or if you just want like a really cute homemade gift.
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All right, so like I had mentioned,
Valentine's Day is just one of those holidays
that I feel like comes up really, really quickly.
It kind of hits you out of nowhere,
so I thought that I would show you
three super, super easy recipes.
The first one is going to be
some Valentine's Day decorated Oreos.
Now, you can buy these at a lot of grocery stores,
but they're like $12 for like three Oreo cookies
that are just decorated.
So we're gonna make them at home
because it's easier and cheaper and vegan.
The second one is going to be a custard toast,
which is a really beautiful recipe
that you can use for a breakfast in bed.
It looks really chic and fancy.
It doesn't take a lot of time at all.
And then the third recipe
is a date-night charcuterie board for two,
so it's like any other charcuterie board,
except we have some candy and chocolates on there,
and it's just enough for two people.
It's something that you can eat maybe for dinner,
or just while you're watching a movie, enjoying some wine,
you can have some little snacks here and there.
All right, for this recipe,
you can use Oreos or your favorite sandwich-style cookie.
You can use either the regular original chocolate ones
or you can use the golden ones as well.
And then I'm also going to do some white chocolate,
but you can do just regular melted chocolate chips.
For the white chocolate,
I have a really awesome vegan white chocolate recipe
on my blog.
Vegan chocolate chips are a little bit harder to find,
so I just suggest making this.
It's a lot easier, and quite frankly,
I think it tastes better.
It's less sweet than normal white chocolate,
which I find a lot of the time,
just really just tastes like way too much sugar.
So yeah, you can make that.
I'm just melting the chocolate from the recipe
but you can use it,
if you do make the chocolate from scratch,
you can just use it right out of blender
because it'll be nice and warm and melted anyway.
All right.
So putting this together is pretty straightforward.
You have your melted chocolate. You have sprinkles.
I mixed a bunch of sprinkles together.
I had some pink ones, some white ones,
and then just plain red ones, so I thought it would be cute
to do a little bit of the gold with the pink
and the white and the red.
And then to make things a little bit easier on yourself,
you're gonna wanna put your Oreos either in the freezer
for 10, 15, or in the fridge for like 30 minutes,
just so they're nice and cold
so that when they hit the chocolate,
it can start to harden, and it doesn't just like,
when you put it down onto the onto the parchment paper
or the silicone mat, it doesn't just go everywhere.
It makes it a little bit easier.
All right, so you take your cookie.
You can cover the whole cookie.
I like to do like half,
and then just let the excess kind of drip off.
You can, if you are making your own chocolate,
you can even let that harden a little bit
and go in with a second coat.
And we're gonna do that with all of my cookies.
If you're doing a dark chocolate,
you won't have to do this more than once
'cause it's already dark.
And you can do a combination of white chocolate
and chocolate cookies
or dark chocolate and the vanilla types.
I find I like the regular stuffed,
not the Double Stuf for this,
just because there's so much sugar involved already.
But my local store only had the the Golden Oreos
and the Double Stuf,
so really going for a sugar bomb with those today.
So after I have dipped them the first time,
I'm just gonna stick them in the freezer
for like five minutes, and then we will dip them again.
All right, so it's been like five minutes,
so I'm gonna dip them again, but this time,
I'm going into the sprinkles.
Oh yes.
So cute!
All right, so once you are done that,
you can just stick them in the fridge or freezer
and let them harden, I would say,
like 30 minutes in the fridge, minimum.
Obviously, you can do less time
if you stick it in the freezer, but that's pretty much it.
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All right. So that is the first one.
I mean, who doesn't love a homemade gift?
Who doesn't love sugar?
I think these are really cute.
Put it in a box with a little love note.
Good to go.
All right, the second recipe is custard toast.
Now, this took off on TikTok,
and I think it makes a really pretty,
easy breakfast-in-bed situation.
So it's not quite the work of a French toast or pancakes,
but it's a bit more than just like toast and peanut butter,
and it looks really cute and it looks fancy.
It looks very French, like bistro-esque.
So we're going to make that.
Now, traditionally, it's made with a Greek yogurt and eggs.
So I'm going to use Just Egg
and just a thick Silk oat yogurt.
I find that that's actually the best one for this
'cause it's super, super thick.
And then, for sweetening, some maple syrup.
And then, just because I love it, some lemon zest.
Add a little bit of brightness to it.
You could make it as sweet or not sweet as you want.
And then the lemon nest is totally optional,
but I love how bright and fresh it gives them.
All right, you have your custard.
That's how you make custard. Very, very easy.
Now, use whatever bread that you want.
For this, I like just kind of like
Texas Toast-like white bread.
Also, like a really nice French bread would work for thism
but something super soft.
I mean, any bread works, but I don't know.
I like it with this.
And you can just go ahead
and use your finger or spoon and press in the bread,
the center of it,
'cause that is where your custard's gonna go.
So you're creating a little bit of a well here.
If you don't want to use your hands,
you can use the back of a spoon.
And then you can just fill evenly between the toasts,
your little custard.
Just add it in.
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And now you can top the, you can just do this,
but you can also top them with things like blueberries,
sliced strawberries.
I'm going to go with raspberries
because I love the combination of lemon and raspberry,
like a raspberry lemonade.
So I'm going to top it with raspberries.
All right. So now you can just air-fry it.
It looks like a toaster oven, but it is many things.
It is also an air fryer.
So 350, eight to 10 minutes.
You can also do it in the oven.
I would do 400 for like eight to 10 minutes.
All right, so you'll get this little adorable custard toast,
and you can serve it just like this
or with a drizzle of maple syrup or some powdered sugar
and then just serve it.
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This is very good.
It's giving me like cheese danish
or I guess like custard danish.
It's really tasty.
Highly recommend.
All right, so we are now down to the third recipe.
This is a date night charcuterie board,
so it's a little bit of something savory,
a little bit of something sweet.
This is just a guideline.
You don't have to buy these things if you don't want to
if you don't like them or you have something else at home.
You can use whatever you want, switch things out.
You guys know how to make a charcuterie board.
I know how to make a charcuterie board,
so let's get to it right away.
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All right, so here's my cute little charcuterie board
on my fake table.
This is where I take photos.
Hello.
Definitely put it together
where you're going to be serving it
because it does get difficult to move,
unless you put most of it together
and just leave the stuff on the edges right at the end,
and you can just put it on wherever you put it down.
But this is great for if you guys are going to watch
a little romantic movie night,
a little Netflix and chill for Valentine's Day,
or just enjoying some wine by candlelight.
This is the perfect little, a little bit of savory,
a little bit of sweet.
So yeah, there you go.
Let me know which one of these you're going to be making,
or maybe you'll make all of them for your sweetheart.
You can leave that in the comment section down below.
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if there's something that you'd like to see veganized
or you have no idea what to cook for the next holiday.
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