Valentine's Day Recipe For Kids: Love Toast

This Valentine's Day recipe for kids to make is dead simple and can be done independently by very young children because it requires no sharp tools or heat.

Children often like to join in with Valentine's Day fun, making cards and buying treats. But a lot of recipes for Valentine's Day involve hot ingredients, dangerous equipment and therefore adult supervision, which makes it hard for them to make a special treat for a family member.

This simple Valentine's Day Love Toast can be done by a child by themselves and then they can feel proud to give it to someone they love!

Ingredients

Bread
Butter or spread
Red jam

Equipment

Toaster
Butter knife or spreader
Teaspoon
Heart shaped cookie cutter
Plate

Picture of some ingredients for a recipe, some jam, bread, butter and a cookie cutter, as part of a blog about a Valentine's recipe for kids to make independently called Love Toast.

Instructions

Put the bread in the toaster and pop the lever down. Ask a grown up if you need help to decide which number it should be toasted to.
Wait for it to pop up. Don't touch the toast when it first pops up. Count to 20 and then see if it is cool enough to touch. If you're not sure, ask a grownup to help you take it out of the toaster. Never put anything inside the toaster.
Put the toast onto your plate or a cutting board.

Picture of a child's hand putting bread into a toaster, as part of a blog about a Valentine's recipe for kids to make independently called Love Toast.

Buttering

Butter your bread, using your butter knife. Try to get the butter all over the bread. Don't press too hard, this tears the bread. Spread a little bit at a time, by scraping gently with the knife on a slant. Take your time and practice. Try to get butter into the corners.

Picture of a child's hand spreading butter onto toast, as part of a blog about a Valentine's recipe for kids to make independently called Love Toast.

Cutting the heart

Place your heart shaped cutter carefully in the middle of your toast.

Press down hard until you can feel that the cutter is touching the plate or board. Wiggle it about a bit, be gentle, don't tear the toast.

If you make a mistake, don't worry too much, just make some more toast and try again.

Take the cutter off the toast and pull the toast heart out really gently.

If it is a little bit stuck in places, use your finger and thumb to tug it loose.

Take the heart piece out of the toast.

Picture of a child's hands cutting a hole out of some toast with a heart shaped cookie cutter, as part of a blog about a Valentine's recipe for kids to make independently called Love Toast.

Picture of some toast with a heart shaped hole cut out of it and the cut out part beside it, as part of a blog about a Valentine's recipe for kids to make independently called Love Toast.

Spreading your red jam

Start by spreading some of your jam onto the little heart shaped piece of toast that your removed. Just take a little bit of the jam at a time.

Picture of a child's hands spreading jam onto a small heart shaped piece of toast, as part of a blog about a Valentine's recipe for kids to make independently called Love Toast.

Filling the heart

Put the rest of the toast onto a plate, placing it nicely in the middle.

With a teaspoon, dollop some jam into the hole in the middle.

Use the back of your spoon to slowly and carefully spread the jam around inside the heart shape. Use your other hand to keep the toast still so it doesn't slide about.

You will probably need two spoonfuls, so spread some around, then add another spoon and spread that around, until you can't see the plate through the jam anymore.

You should be swirling it gently, you won't need to press down.

When the hole has enough jam in it to make it look pretty and red, you are done!

Grid of four images of a child's hand dolloping and spreading jam into a heart shaped cut out of some toast, onto a white plate to fill the hole, as part of a blog about a Valentine's recipe for kids to make independently called Love Toast.

Make it look nice

Put the little heart neatly on the side of the plate so it looks pretty.

Give this Valentine's Day Love Heart Toast to someone you really love for Valentine's breakfast.

And maybe that person is YOU!!

A white plate with toast on it, a heart shaped cut out taken out of the middle and put on one side, the toast heart is spread with jam and the cut out from the toast has jam filling it, this is the finished image for our guide on how to make Valentine's Love Toast with kids.

More Valentine's Day recipes

If you want to try out some more recipes with a Valentine's theme, here is a great round up of fun Valentine's day recipes.