I hope you all have some special plans for sharing the love today! Our FF post is publishing quite late (almost not until Saturday, again), but that will work out fine since it's a Valentine's Day post anyway.
I know we all have some special family traditions associated with this day, even if they're just little things. I would love to hear some of yours if you would like to share!
In our house, Mom would always make heart-shaped cherry muffins, and we kids would each have a little Valentine goodie bag waiting at our spots at the breakfast table that morning. It was such a fun way to start a special day, and got us excited for the rest of the good times that always followed (bunches of tiny valentines from classmates, tons of candy, and homemade heart cookies in our lunchboxes).
I want to carry on this tradition in my family, so this year I asked my mom for her cherry muffin recipe and to borrow her heart-shaped muffin tin. Little did I know what a treasure this muffin tin is! I must have been asleep each year until the muffins were actually out of the oven, because I don't remember ever seeing it. It is this adorable little cast-iron muffin tin that makes the cutest little hearts. I am way too excited over this little thing. So I have a picture to share with you, and I'm actually considering hanging the tin on the wall in my kitchen--the "heart" of the home, you know.
Anyway, unfortunately my mom hasn't been able to find her recipe for cherry muffins. They involved chopped up maraschino cherries and some of the cherry juice to make them pink. So yummy! I am going to use the recipe for my Lowfat Strawberry Cinnamon muffins, and adapt it to make it a cherry muffin recipe. I will follow up to let you guys know how it goes.
In the meantime, here is a link to the Lowfat Strawberry Cinnamon Muffin recipe, in case you're curious.
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=592312
Phillip LOVES these muffins, and they are awesome just out of the oven. I always make lowfat muffins and love them, but I will say that the lowfat variety tend to (in my experience) be delectable just out of the oven, but not as good when left over. So I make the batter in advance, and only cook the number I'll need that day. Then we can use the rest of the batter to make fresh-from-the-oven muffins again the next day.
Have a lovely heart-day!
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