This post contains affiliate links. We will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are our own. This is a decadent breakfast casserole that is perfect for a New Year's Day morning or to tuck away and save for Valentines Day! A Cherry Danish Casserole is perfect to eat this time of year because besides being delicious, it will use up any left over, day old rolls that you have after the holidays. The colors are festive and the flavors are bright and cheery. Best of all, you make it the night before, so in the morning you simply pop it in the oven and heat up your house while it bakes. Then, simply mix up the simple cherry glaze and pour it over the top when it comes out of the oven. Those white cubes are chunks of cream cheese! If you are thinking YUM, you are correct! I you don't want to pour on the glaze, you could make it a dipping sauce. Other alternatives to the glaze are:
I loved enhancing the flavor of the cherries with the glaze. It added to the ooey gooey goodness of the Cherry Danish appeal. At our house, we served this casserole on Christmas morning. I'm sure that it will be making a reappearance in the near future. We served it with bacon and hot orange punch. It was very Christmasy and was a hit with everyone! The bread soaked in the egg becomes a unctuous custard. If you don't have left over dinner rolls, you can use croissants, which was how the original recipe I saw on DinnerthenDessert made it, or you can use another crusty bread. I didn't have any croissants laying around, but I did have rolls and decided to try it. I made the recipe larger to accommodate a larger family and used more cherries! I also added the cherry glaze with the removed cherry sauce. So, without further ado, here is the recipe that I used to make Cherry Danish Breakfast Casserole, I hope you give it a try and love it! Simply click on the recipe to print.
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This post contains affiliate Links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support. These Valentine Cinnamon Rolls are definitely a work of love! Maddy first had the idea to make pink, heart shaped cinnamon rolls. She wanted to make them quick and easy, therefore, she didn't want to use yeast. After 3 tries, I think she got them just about perfect! To make the dough of these cinnamon rolls pink, she added regular pink liquid food coloring. Getting the heart shape was the most difficult task. First she tried just shaping them like hearts in the pan. That didn't work. Then I suggested she tried a ball of foil to make the indent between the two bumps. That didn't work either. The dough simply expanded around the foil. Alicia came up with the idea that worked the best! Instead of making one big roll of dough with the filling inside, she suggested rolling the dough from either side, meeting in the middle. That resulted in two spirals that created a natural heart shape when sliced. Genius! The next try was going to be purchasing heart shaped cupcake pans, but we avoided that! The frosting for these rolls is made with cream cheese, orange juice and orange zest, along with the confectioners sugar. Maddy piped the frosting into a heart shape to help enhance the Valentine look. The slight orange taste of the frosting, blending with the cinnamon is delicious! Of course, nothing would be complete around here with out some cute sprinkles! These cinnamon rolls are easy to bake and will make a great Valentine's Day treat for those that you love! Add a Hot Cocoa Bomb for a special Valentine breakfast! Maddy came up with such a fun way to make Valentine's Day Special!
This post contains affiliate Links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support. 2022 was not a great year for our family and to top it all off, I didn't get very many Hot Cocoa Bombs made. Happily, now that 2023 has begun, the weather has been a little more the way that it should be with rain and colder temperatures, so there is still time to enjoy some delicious Hot Cocoa Bombs to warm us all up! Hot Cocoa is such great comfort food! (or drink!) This particular flavor is one I came up with in 2017 and we made our first Hot Cocoa Bomb tutorial video about it! Since chocolate covered strawberries make a great Valentine's Day treat, I thought that I would share this post with you again just as we get into February! Enjoy! Today is the big day! We are publishing our Hot Cocoa Bomb Video Tutorial! It is available for your viewing pleasure right here on this site, or on Facebook or on YouTube! Take your pick and watch it over and over again if you want. (I probably will!) While the tutorial basics are the same as in our picture tutorial that you can find here, this video also introduces a new flavor of Bomb that we are sure you will all love! It is Chocolate Strawberry! At Valentine's Day, one favorite gift is chocolate dipped strawberries, so we thought, why not a Chocolate Strawberry Bomb? And look how pretty they are with the Wilton iridescent Valentines sprinkles sitting in those cute cupcake cups. I found mine at Walmart, but there are similar ones here and here. These will definitely be making an appearance on our Valentine's Day breakfast table. Without further ado, here is the video! The basics for creating these Strawberry Bombs are the same as you will find on this link, but here are the differences that make this flavor unique.
If you want a hard copy of the directions, You can find the printable version of our Hot Cocoa Bomb Idea Book in our Etsy shop! It contains many ideas for flavors and for decorating your Hot Cocoa Bombs. Once again, here is a link to the Wilton Molds that we use, here and here. For those of you who live in colder climates, Hot Cocoa Bombs are a great way to get cozy and warmed up on a cold winter's night. For those of us in Phoenix, we have to hurry and take advantage of our cooler mornings and nights for just a little bit longer and get in our Hot Cocoa Bomb fix while we can! Chocolate Strawberry, or Cherry Cordial are perfect for a cold Valentine's Day morning! After you watch the marshmallows pop up to the top of the cup, add some more, or whipped cream and sprinkles to make them extra sweetl for this sweetheart of a day! If you are looking for recipes to make a wonderful, romantic dinner, check out Renny's Recipes! If Valentine's Day isn't your cup of tea, try these ideas from Alicia for an UnValentine's Day party or date. (Hot Cocoa Bombs will work in either situation though.) Let us know how you liked our video and if you try making Hot Cocoa Bombs, let us know how it went! We can give you some tips to help you be successful, if you have any questions.
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I posted this Valentine's day post a few years back, right after giving birth to my oldest daughter, who just turned 5 in December! I can't believe it is already 2023! Yesterday we celebrated our sweet son Henry's birthday.
For some reason, Valentine's Day has been on my mind already, I want to make it extra special this year. Valentine's Day is generally not my thing, but this year I don't want to focus on romantic love (although I am married and Valentine's Day is also my husband's birthday, so there will be some romance) but just the importance of loving others in general. Food is definitely a love language. In this post I listed seven great recipes for you to try out on Valentine's day (or maybe the lead up to it) including some great cocoa bomb ideas! By the way, have you purchased our Hot Cocoa Bomb book from our Etsy shop yet? We actually have two, our original book, and our fall flavor book! Don't get the store bought trash, learn how to make the original and best cocoa bombs around, our Original Hot Cocoa Bombs! Maybe I can convince my mom and sisters to put together a Valentine Cocoa Bomb recipe book in time to have all your favorite Valentine flavors this February! Make sure you check out our video at the link below for how to make some tasty Strawberry Hot Cocoa Bombs. What a delicious, warm pink drink in time for Valentine's Day!
Valentine's day is coming up and you might still be wondering what you should be cooking that night. Whether you're planning on a romantic dinner for two, or something fast and easy for the whole family, we are here to help.
This blog is full of recipes and I've lined up a few of my favorites here for you to choose from. Remember, you can also go to our Etsy shop and buy our bloggilicious baking pages to create your own hard copy cookbook with our recipes! Our valentine's day will be different this year. It is PH's birthday, so of course we'll be celebrating that! But now we have a little one, and family will be in town to celebrate her because on the 18th she will be blessed at our church. (I guess a blessing is sort of like a christening, but there is no water. Is there water at a christening? I think so. a blessing is when the father, or another worthy priesthood holder, holds the baby and gives her a name and then blesses her with whatever Heavenly Father tells him to bless her with. In a nutshell.) Alicia will be here and her son's birthday is the 13th and he'll be turning 3! Our nephew Hunter is also here and he'll be 3 on the 20th! So with all this busy family time, we'll probably want to be using some of these great recipes ourselves! Happy Valentine's Day!
Valentine Recipes:
1. Strawberry Hot Cocoa Bombs: my mom came up with this flavor last year and we made this cute video to show you how they work! Here in AZ its already 80 degrees, but in those parts of the country where it is still freezing you can warm up with that special someone with these tasty bombs! 2. Salted Caramel Hot Cocoa Bombs: my mom also showed you another fun flavor and decorated them for Valentine's day! Check out how cute they are! 3. Shrimp Pesto with Zoodles: don't forget, last year I gave you the perfect Valentine's day meal. It's what PH and I had, and we enjoyed it quite a bit! I think I might go buy zucchini and make it again! 4. German Rinderrouladen and Potato Dumplings: Go international with this tasty meal from Alicia's journey into German foods! 5. Valentine's Day appetizers: if you're throwing any kind of party (like we are) these Valentine appetizers are sure to be a hit! 6. Swiss Cake Roll: what Valentine's Meal is complete without dessert? Check out our tasty Swiss Cake roll for yours! 7. Butterscotch Not so Squares: Of course Valentine's Day involves candies and chocolate. Give a heartfelt gift by making these tasty chocolates that your significant other will love!
Well, there you have it. Seven recipes sure to make your Valentine's day a success, no matter whom you're celebrating it with!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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