It's a You are Special Meal

Now that our children have reached the ripe old ages of 2 and (almost) 5, I thought they'd be into the idea of a meal that celebrates how special they are to us.  And like all good children, they were.

We had pizza...

with heart-shaped pepperonis which would have been decidedly faster to come by if I had a heart shaped cookie cutter.  As it was, I free-handed them all, which did have some advantages in that each heart had its own character and sizes varied.

I had made a little extra pizza dough to turn into heart-shaped bread sticks.

We also had heart-shaped dip dollops 

(for veggies or, and in this case, pizza sauce for bread sticks).

Make 2 circles of dip side-by-side

Use a toothpick to pull the point into a heart.

At each of the children's plates, I had an inexpensive gifts.

   

The little picks in the mini-cupcakes are simply hearts glued onto toothpicks.  

The meal was such fun that I got a round of applause from my family of cheerleaders in the end.  I smiled and thanked them, meanwhile being unsure how to properly pass the applause along to my sister Laura for the original idea of doing a meal for your children and to www.cutefoodforkids.com for the heart shaped dip and pepperoni ideas.