Happy Valentines Day Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! For Valentines Day this year, I decided to bake some yummy treats for my valentine! As they say, “the way to a mans heart is through his stomach.” My Valentine loved these treats, as well as his roommates who scarfed them down within one day. My valentine loves rice krispie treats, so I decided to make him red velvet cake rice krispie treats with a homemade butter cream frosting, in heart shapes. I then made some red velvet cake balls with sprinkles. As a photographer of course I had to photograph them! Here are some of the photos as well as the recipes if you are interested in giving them a try! They both came out amazing! Enjoy!

Heart Shaped-Red Velvet Cake Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter
• 10.5 oz bag of mini marshmallows (the mini’s melt faster)
• 1/3 cup dry Red Velvet Cake mix
• 6 cups rice krispie cereal
• 1 can of frosting of choice or for homemade frosting: 1/2 cup butter or cream cheese (room temperature) mixed with 2 cups powdered sugar
• Heart shaped cookie cutter

Instructions:

1. Line a 9 x 13 cake pan with foil and grease lightly with cooking spray. Set aside. (I used a 9 x 13 aluminum cake pan)
2. In a large saucepan melt butter over low heat.
3. Add marshmallows and stir until melted.
4. Remove from heat and add in dry cake mix, stirring until mixed.
5. Stir in rice krispie cereal and coat evenly with mixture.
6. Pour mixture into prepared pan and press evenly. Let cool.
7. If making homemade frosting- beat butter and powdered sugar together.
8. Cut krispie treat sheet in half, so you have two equal portions, and spread the frosting on one of the portions.
9. Place the other half on top and cut into hearts with a heart cookie cutter or cut into squares.
10. Once I cut out all the hearts I could fit, I pushed together the remaining and continued to cut out hearts until there was no more treat left. I ended up with 12 heart treats.

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Ingredients

• 1 box red velvet cake mix
• 1 can cream cheese frosting (16 oz)
• 1 package chocolate bark (I used ghirardelli baking chocolate chips)
• wax paper
• 3 large eggs
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil

Instructions

1. Cook cake following directions on box.
2. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl.
3. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting.
4. Roll mixture into quarter size balls and lay on cookie sheet.
5. Chill for several hours or use your freeze to speed up the process. (Balls need to be frozen to dip) Warning: Once they start to thaw they begin to fall apart while coating!
6. Melt chocolate in microwave per directions on packaging.
7. Use a spoon to roll balls in chocolate and lay on wax paper until firm. I used tooth picks to dip my balls in the chocolate… didn’t work out that great.
8. Sprinkle sprinkles on balls immediately. (chocolate gets firm fast)

*Red Velvet Cake Rice Krispie Treats by Shelly from Cookies & Cups.com

*Red Velvet Cake Balls Recipe from Bakerella.com