Martha Stewart’s Best Valentine’s Day Treats | 13-Recipe Special | Martha’s Supercuts

Savor some sweetness with this video about Martha Stewart’s best Valentine’s Day treats! Join us in this delectable journey through irresistible dessert recipes that will add a touch of romance to your celebration. From heart-shaped delights to chocolatey indulgences, Martha’s expert guidance ensures your Valentine’s Day is filled with delicious moments.

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00:00 Introduction
00:10 Cocktails with Seth Meyers
5:38 Kevin Nealon’s First Kiss
7:10 Ice Cream Sandwich Kisses
16:41 Heart-Shaped Flourless Chocolate Cake
21:26 Brandy Alexander
22:58 Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Cocktail
26:08 Heart-Shaped Cream Cookies
31:40 Heart-Shaped Cakes
39:45 Simple Chocolate Cake
43:32 Hug and Kiss Cookie
48:16 Meringue Cupcakes
53:25 Treat Bags
57:28 Valentine’s Candy Packages

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Martha Stewart’s Best Valentine’s Day Treats | 13-Recipe Special | Martha’s Supercuts

So what are your Valentine’s Day plans we um I’m trying to pull them together I was hoping you’d give me some advice do you drink martinis ever I well little every now and then dirty martinis sure if I drank one it would be dirty it would yeah but what’s the see how dare

You guys jump to that conclusion oh want to do that first let’s do that let do that okay so to make the martini and now just get the little things to have around too okay right okay so it’s nice to have a martini shaker right of course

That’s has ice in it okay and your martini glass should be filled with ice and making it nice and cold gotcha so this right now is just water and ice that’s right that’s right and you don’t put that out until you’re ready to pour your Martini in now just hold this and

Just pour out if there’s any water in here just you know ice might have melted you don’t don’t want to dilute your Martini now now my hand’s very cold good 2 oz of vodka okay so this is a one one and a half oz so just measure like

Okay and then a splash of remou do you like remou in your martinis I do okay just a splash like that all right and then what is Splash is that like just do it just do it don’t that’s a splash okay this is this is a splash for some people

Oh just like waving it over yes splash people are jerks right yes if a guy’s like a splash of AO and when I say a splash just wave the cap all of olive brine Olive brine this is what I can’t get uh I don’t you just put a splash of

Olive brine I I’m going to put a lot because if you want dirty dirty you have to put a lot of olive brine now this seems to be the new wave of Martini’s Olive brine you know what it is what it’s the juice out of an olive jar you

Know these are the olives and the olives are good but who wants to drink drink the vinegary olivey tasting juice people will always find a way to give a fancy name to a thing you used to throw in the garbage that’s right they’re like oh Olive brine is available at the high-end

Store just do your Tom Cruz Shake oh wait like like can I flip it though it’ll come off right no hold just hold your finger like there no but I meant I was going to like throw it up in the air that’s the no he went you know he was

Sexy and funny when he was doing his baking I feel like you’re setting me up for failure no I mean he was great whereas your average and see when this gets all all cloudy like that it’s really cold the ice has done its job okay and then you pour the cold

Water preferably into a bowl or the sink not not on the floor right again now you’re underestimating me e right now that’s so it has with the olive juice frine in there it’s sort of like like a little like opalescent and then you have these skewers now how many

Olives do you like in Martin you like two two yeah okay but only like for the I don’t love olives oh okay so you might want lemon peel yeah I think I would prefer lemon peel yeah Cheers Cheers Happy Valentine’s Day Happy Valentine’s Day that’s to Martini I’ve ever had before

Noon and and actually I don’t like dirty martinis but everybody else seems to why did uh you uh I I like Scotch you don’t like these and why why have all the drinks H thing come this is better this is better a white Cosmopolitan great but now does your girlfriend like white

Cosmopolitans I I think she’d probably drink one yeah yeah these are these are really good so it again in a in a um cocktail shaker 2 ounces of vodka we’re into the 2 o yeah and this uh stoi is a good vodka yeah no that’s absolutely

It’s good if you’re going to drink Vodka well it’s Russian right yeah and 1 oz of quantro okay and quantro is an orange Lor that’s very tasty right and a half a cup of white cranberry juice did you know they made white cranberry juice I didn’t it’s like yellow diamonds I had no

Idea again it seems to me the way they invent things these days is just find a different color so now what are you looking forward to while we shake tell us a a little bit more about Saturday Night Live uh the election’s always fun for us I mean oh

What what about the election can you make any remarks whatsoever who’s going to win I don’t know who’s going to win but I will I can’t get that off I need a drill for real I can’t get this what is this is this one of those joke things might be

There’s your glass I have like I think I have like otter hands like slippery otter hands otter that’s like a sexy thing to do on Valentine’s Day I can’t open my things now taste this you might like this better I think I’m going to like this better mhm yes that’s way

Better rose petals oh oh rose petals stop telling people you and I aren’t dating that’s a that’s a nice little little perfect please welcome Kevin [Applause] Nean tell everyone the story of your first kiss do you remember uh My First Kiss yeah uh it was a very sloppy kiss it was it was my dog oh and he was just all tongue all tongue I said no tongue no tongue but um yeah but my first real

Kiss uh I was on a hay hay ride and I was very nervous about kissing the girl how old were you I was um 35 not I was probably about 15 or 16 and um you were a late bloomer oh I was yeah I was very you weren’t one of these precocious

Little nine-year-old boys out there no no not me um but um I the hay ride was almost over and I was nervous and I I knew I had to make my move and finally I just I went in for the kiss I was so nervous I closed my eyes and I was

Kissing her I think this isn’t so bad and then I felt something weird in my mouth and I didn’t realize I was kissing her eye I was cuz I had my eyes closed I was right on her eye and her eyelash was fluttering and I thought she had a

Mustache was her eyebrow I thought I I didn’t see this mustache before and um and I was so embarrassed afterwards and she was like oh God my eye is all wet and then I saw her like two weeks later she had a patch on her eye do you do you

Know we’re going to do chocolate lip ice cream uh cookies would you like those I love chocolate lip ice cream cookies that’s all I ever eat so we have uh this delicious uh chocolate sugar cookie dough and it’s cold because to roll it out it’s it’s quite soft so if you don’t

Really chill it and put it on a Sil Pat to roll out you’ll make a mess this is like the for plate now I’m just I want to eat this right now you could have some after we after we cut it can you eat the dough without it being cooked of

Course of course okay you want to leave the plastic on top yes because look all right look how nicely it rolls no okay I’m just a little excited take it easy okay we want to roll it into a rectangle as much of a rectangle this way

Rectangle yeah that way as you can okay yeah you can turn the sil p and just really roll should I have my eyes closed while I’m doing this if it if it if it gives you pleasure definitely and we want the dough all the same thickness see what’s happening I’m

Hitting it yeah right look at it okay and just it’s hard to make it a triangle uh you say a triangle or rectangle rectangle oh okay that’s a whole different story right there and you wanted about oh a little less than an eighth of an inch thick okay okay but

All the same thickness very important now what kind of weight do we want this Marth no no don’t press too hard because see your see what’s going it’s all starting to go off Sil hat a little more gentle he chocolate does this T me a little gentle so you’ve you’ve appeared

Now you must have some thing with Adam Sandler you’ve appeared in eight of his movies right I have been in a lot of this film so uh what’s your favorite film with him so far all right well I’m going to be doing two things at once now

Um the new one is the favorite one I’ve done a lot with him I did little little Nikki where I played the gatekeeper of hell I’ve I’ve seen all his movies I had a breast on my head in that one yeah lovely you seen all his movies yeah I

Love Adam Sandler he’s very silly my daughter will not look at any of his movies but I like him can I just touch this and flip it over to make it more of a rectangle no no no because once you roll it you’ve done it it looks like uh right now so

Now it doesn’t matter because we’re going to cut out shapes but oh I I use want to cover just now just gently just smooth it out all one one thickness just go back and forth lightly okay and it’ll it will there’s no flower invol all the

Way to the end see that you’re leaving a little no I’m going to come back and get that later no you can’t have to do it all at once there we go see what I’m doing I’m Feathering out the edges so so the Saran Wrap is instead of flour yep

Instead of flour instead of sticking it on the table and breaking it into a million pieces this really so now this just goes right into the freezer and you freeze it so you won’t taste the plastic later no you take the plastic off okay oh you take it off before you bake it

Okay so get the idea it’s rolled out here look how neatly it’s rolled out now see I told you it would work out see and now this is Frozen now take your your lip Cutters and now we’re going to cut as many as we can out of this I can’t

Believe I’m making a lip cookies with Martha Stewart yeah it’s you know just yeah close yeah I used to make donuts at Dunkin Donuts really yeah for two weeks I did you did yeah how fabulous it was great I made some of the best donuts in

The world I like Dunkin’ Donuts I made Crispy Cream donuts at Dunkin Donuts I mixed it up a little bit they don’t let you do that okay okay so now lift it up with your spatch okay and then you put this over no you said spatch is that

Short for spatula spatula yes okay you can abbreviate I’m touching it with my fingers that are uh unwashed so just remember this one is mine okay how many uh lip cookies can we get out of this well that’s the whole idea the more that you can get out

Without rrolling the dough the better should we have a contest yeah all right I don’t think we have time but I would like to have that contest with you some where am I going well I’m going where are you go what is your day like today

For example well let me see two shows big meeting big crisis what’s the crisis that’s not good no no no this is a lip that from a guy who was in a fight okay that looks like my lip last week after my dog headbutted me oh brother

Have you ever been headbutted on your mouth by a dog not by a person by a dog no I can’t say that I have been okay so you have to this you get the idea about yeah no no yeah don’t don’t use the point use this side this way okay that

Yeah just take away the right take away no take this take away the wait you have double you have double lines here what’ you do you did something wrong um well I like to add a little flavor to it no no no here and go this way I think your

Dough is your dough is ruined yeah my you didn’t do it you didn’t do it it has to be colder all right wait I have time for one more okay try to I’m going to do a perfect one right here it’s going to make your lips look uh silly okay okay

There we go that’s good how long does it take to make these actually not long would you say the dough hours make the dough well you make the dough you chill it you roll it out out you chill it you cut them out you bake them so all of

That so far is about 3 hours the 10 seconds you just told me all that takes three hours yeah about Okay now what’s happening is yeah it’s too soft forget that if that goes back in the freezer now without touching it it will be okay okay so now take your little sharp knife

And you can cut out U see the see the inside of the lift on the top you have to have because you’ll be exposing some of the ice cream in the ultimate can I make my lips an opera anything you want and a big hole anything you so a big

Mouth you mean yeah a big hole now there’s no blood coming out of this one correct no but you know you could do it you know just you can do it a little more shapely you can do anything you want that’s okay you can eat that it’s

Good not bad chocolate that’s very large well very large it’s an I told you it’s an opera singer okay that’s all right now I’m going to do one that just talks out of the side of its mouth see don’t play with your food you know why mom told us don’t play with your

Food bake at 350 degrees 350 350 for 12 to 15 minutes so now we’re going to um fill them with some ice cream you have strawberry ice cream I have raspberry sorbet ice cream I’m more of an ice cream fan than sorbet oh okay sorbet is

Just not even deser now use your little cookie cutter all right take it easy we can’t talk too much because I mean you can talk while you work but you cannot talk and not work oh I see okay because this how much getting paid an hour

You’re getting a lot you get you get scale so then you then you nice see now turn your cookie upside down turn it over like this yeah put the on the solid one now Martha what I like to do is I like to grease my finger so it doesn’t

Stick to the uh you don’t have to just stick your finger in the hot water oh okay and there okay that is looking really good look it so neat it looks like it is a professional where can I get these ession does look good can I

You can get that at um where where do you get those Nikki the cookie cutters Nikki somebody in the kitchen yes I we got them at nework cake and bake New York cake and bake okay okay have you ever been there no I haven’t oh

You should go there can I do another one yeah and you have to work fast because otherwise your ice cream will start to melt and what you should do then in that case put it right back in the freezer put it back in the freezer so that it’ll

Get cold it will get cold again yeah now how as soon as you make these you put these in the freezer wrapped in plastic wrapped so that they won’t get freezed burn and you have real this is a very nice actually for Valentine’s Day if you’re having a party this is great now

You know what is great about it’s a great conversation piece yeah it is give everybody those wax lips and try to see if they can eat their ice cream with the wax lips on yeah it’s quite a challenge or see if they can have a dinner conversation with those lips what do you

Do with like uh the leftover stuff what like what um well like the red dough can you make like little keep rolling them out make some more and you have a question for me I keep well I’m always wondering what what to do with leftover stuff like for example

Uh those you know when somebody sends you Styrofoam peanuts yeah well they don’t send you Styrofoam peanuts hopefully well that’s not the gift no do you ever look in them uh it’s usually in the styrofoam penis it’s usually something for you how would you get rid of the penis though that’s my biggest

Pet peef is having all those peanuts around I’d rather not get the box of whatever it is if I have to deal with and this serious I have big planters you know where that where I plant my plants in the summertime yeah around my pool

And in the chair in the Cher I know what you’re talking about I’ve seen those yeah and so I fill them halfway with peanuts and then put a fiber fibrous cloth while your work talk while you’re working right and uh you’re right but I made

I’ve made for I was waiting to you for you to catch up to me okay so um so that’s what I do and it keeps the it keeps the Planters uh not so heavy you know you put them actually right in the Planters in in the Planters and then I

Plant on top of them but the problem is they’re so hard to gather up oh I know they’re pain in the neck so what do you got for that like a vacuum dust Buster no no no no big scoop like a chicken a chicken feed scoop okay it works well

You can get those at Agway or the Feed Barn never heard of either one of those stores but I look for it Agway mhm Agway is very important there so look look how neat okay start eating what do you think oh God it’s good right it taste just like a

Lip but they’re so good have some huh yeah well they’re they’re delicious I think they’re just the most and cutest you know what I do kids will love these the dark rich flavors of a semisweet and unsweetened chocolate rum and espresso mingle wonderfully in this moist flowless chocolate cake I like to call

It the Roberta heart it’s named for my old friend Roberta kins who once made 38 of these in in one day for one of my catering jobs after you see how easy it is to make you’ll understand how she could make so many first thing to do is

To melt the chocolate and we use 1 and 1/2 tablespoon of espresso powder and 6 tablespoons of hot water stir that well and add that to 21 oz of semisweet chocolate which have been broken up and 3 oz of unsweet and chocolate just to add a little bit more depth of flavor

Put this over simmering water so you’ve simulated a ban Marie and stir it every so often until it melts smooth and glossy six tablespoons of dark rum added to your chocolate semisweet chocolate contains 60% chocolate liquor and 40% sugar so let that sit there and melt

Just by itself and now into nine large eggs eggs add 3/4 of a cup of granulated sugar and whisk all together and then you’re going to heat this also over simmering water until all the sugar is dissolved you’re going to beet it until it’s light and

Frothy so just put your bowl right over simmering water so we have the eggs warming we have our chocolates melting now this is heavy cream 1 and 1/2 cups with a tablespoon of sugar and about a tablespoon of vanilla this is whipped to a nice stiffness and this is going to be

Folded into the whole thing before we bake the rubber to heart I think the sugar is completely dissolved and now we can whip this on our stand mixer until it’s light and frothy this has to beat for approximately 5 minutes so look what’s happened to our eggs it is tripled in

Volume and I’m going to add chocolate so this is like a cake when it’s finally finished without any flour this was one of our most popular and most asked for Desserts when I ran my catering business which was called The uncat Affair the idea being that a host

Has never had to say who had done all the cooking now fold in your whipped cream okay so I can now pour this into our prepared pan this is a 10x 2 in heart buttered and then lined with parchment paper and then everything is buttered again make sure you’ve preheated your oven to

350° now carefully place this in your roasting pan at least 2 in deep this is going to be a water bath put boiling water so it comes about an inch up the pan and then pop it into the oven for approximately 1 hour until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean

When it comes out of the oven let it cool in the water bath when it is cool refrigerate overnight to release it from the pan just put it back in a little bit of warm water and have your serving pedestal ready and some nicely whipped sweetened cream if it’s not releasing

You might loosen around the edges with a sharp knife just the point and then try again keeping your cool in the kitchen is extremely important so now invert your platter over the heart how beautiful and now remove the parchment from around the perimeter of your heart you see how moist and chocolatey

And gorgeous this is just brush away any crumbs I’m going to pipe a beautiful ruffled Edge all the way around with whipped cream and this covers any unevenness and then you can embellish the top and go in the opposite direction so here you have a Roberta heart so chocolatey this will win the

Hearts of all your chocolate lovers you want to make Brandy Alexander I would love to okay so take some ice a big sco and put it in your in your Shaker Okie doie okay so we’re just going to put that in here okay then we

Need um 1 oz of Kala and I’ll I’ll do mine first and then you’ll do yours that’s like a half of this glass here okay thank you right on top of that ice I love CA don’t you love I love it it’s so it’s like and 1 oz of

Brandy I like brandy so I’m going to put more than an ounce okay recipes that’s true drink recipes it’s all let me just give you a drop more here there you go I’ll I’ll go too 2 oz of heavy cream this is the bad part W

Yes yum oh doesn’t it smell Del oh it smells delicious it’s like a dessert I mean this is what you this is what we would drink and and then shake that up really well get it really cold really cold and then you just take that little top off

And pour into your beautiful glass now I always had mine in a small cut glass tumbler I don’t know why we’re having it in a martini glass but that’s all right okay and then looks pretty a little tiny bit of nutmeg you like nutmeg yes love a

Little bit of nutmeg and oop sip that oh gosh I haven’t even had a drink yet just about to spill cheers to your col you I’m back with Chef Michael Schon and we’re making raspberry Chocolate Kiss cocktails that are sure to get your Valentine’s Day off to a great start and

We’re making them uh with vodka so let’s get started on this amazing drink so now are you going to serve this at the restaurant this drink uh no cuz we’re going to drink them all first oh okay we’re going to take 10 raspberries and

Put it in I ate one of yours oh oh wait I ate one already okay steal it back all right we’re going to put a/4 cup of mint infused simple syrup I’m going to just taste that Wes and Angie made that very Wes and Angie did a great

Job gooda okay so this is a muddler if you don’t know what a muddler is you should have one on your bar just go in and ask for a small you have a bar first Joey do you have a bar at your house yes I do how many bars I have the

Greatest the greatest muggler in the world you do who’s that it’s it’s a joey Cola mudler I should come out with my own line of muddlers that’s a good idea all right next we’re going to put a little ice in there okay how much ice a

Scoop or a SC scoop about that perfect okay okay and if you taste here we have a little bit of a basil simple syrup which the guys made in the back too okay now we’re going to take I I you know I love drinks with herbs in them I mean

Yeah I started drinking them last summer this would be great with some fresh lemon juice uh and some vodka two tablespo of cranberry and 2 oz of vodka okay so we’re using Imperia vodka we just learned about this vodka it is delicious and it’s made in Russia it’s um it’s made according to

Mf’s uh real recipe for Zar Nicholas II you like that does it taste good wa to you taste it’s pure pure pure it is Valentine’s Day pure pure pure vodka and then we’re going to shake it up and if I get it on my pink shirt that I’ve never worn

Before that’s fine cuz I probably want more pink again you look good in pink well thank you don’t your wife is probably going to love it yeah see I’m an old cocktail shaker from oh there’s your wife back oh look there she is huh okay now we’re going to dip it in

Simple syrup oh we have to go like this somehow this is the part I never know how oh never know how to I did it and since we’re making this kiss it’s supposed to taste like chocolate so we dip put in the simple syrup the the Herby syrup yep okay and then we’re

Going to probably bigger then we’re going to dip it in the chocolate chocolate three oh these are chocolate cookies yes a the little th strainer here look so it’s kind of like a chocolate covered Cherry this drink but with raspberries chocolate covered raspberries oh boy now have at least one of these

Before dinner make sure make sure you’ve cooked your dinner for your loved one first I even brought your Val have a drink that’s for you happy valentine thank you thank you serious and to all of you a very Happy Valentine’s Day we’ll be right back cheers you’ll need two sticks of

Unsalted butter at room temperature and you can do this whole Cookie by hand if You’ like it’s not very hard to beat um if your ingredients are at room temperature but they go very very quickly too in the KitchenAid mixer or any electric mixer like this that you’ll

Smooth out with a paddle attachment to your mixer add two cups of allpurpose [Applause] flour there and a third of a cup of heavy cream and a four of a teaspoon of vanilla extract very few inred ingredients and a pinch of salt just mix it up until you have a very nice smooth

Dough and that’s all it takes so really basically four simple ingredients divide the dough in half and shape it into flat discs and wrap it in plastic and you want to chill it till it’s firm about 2 to 3 hours and the secret ingredient for these cookies is not the dough although

It is very tender and very delicious but the secret ingredient is the sugar in which the dough is going to be rolled it’s this beautiful pink sugar called sanding sugar it is very crystalline and very very sparkly to make a color use a about a cup of sugar you’re

Going to use about a cup or a cup and a third of actual sugar to roll this dough and use a cherry pink powdered food coloring just use a little bit to start that cherry pink will then very nicely tint your sugar you can use yellow you can use blue or green but

This color pink is so perfect for the traditional Valentine’s cookie so that’s as simple as it is to make your own tinted sugars also have a heart-shaped cookie cutter oh this is about an inch and a half across and I have my baking sheet lined with the sill pad eliminates all

Buttering all greasing the pans and then you just roll your dough out in the sugar no flour and you can work on a breadboard or working on a marble surface like this is very good I’ll make sure your sugar is all mixed up and you can just sprinkle more sugar

On your dough as you roll you want a lot of the the sugar to be embedded into the dough so there I think we have rolled this dough to an appropriate thinness and now just cut it out with your cookie cutters you can do the heart shapes also

With a knife and a paper cut out of a heart if you like one recipe of this dough should yield about 72 cookies which will make 36 sandwiches and the cookies once they’re cut should be put back into the refrigerator for at least 10 minutes to chill the dough before you bake

Them and bake in a preheated oven at 325° for approximately 15 minutes so our first batch should be done by now oh these look good this is exactly the right color get them right off onto a rack you can see the edges are just starting to color a

Little bit and then we’re going to sandwich the cooled cookies together a lot of you probably haven’t even tasted red currant jelly it’s one of my favorites but it is rather difficult to find in the store so if you’re in a specialty Gourmet Store look for red

Currant jelly we’ve used this kind Emily Ridley made in England but here’s what it looks like it’s such a great great color so fill now a pastry bag fitted with about a/4 in tip this is a number 11 tip and you’re just going to put a little bit of currant jelly in between

The cookies now the tops of the cookies are the a part of the cookie that has a little bump on it that you want on the outside so just turn the cookie over and put a little currant jelly on the inside and just stick them together let them sit for a little while

To stick together and then you can package up the cookies so we’re going to use these little cardboard boxes pretty colored wax paper and you can tie it up with a little piece of wax string and I just have to have a bite our very beautiful and crunchy and

Sweet and delicious Valentine’s cream Hearts our cookie of the week in this mixer we’ve already creamed together some butter and some shortening 6 tablespoons butter 1 tbspoon plus 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of shortening yeah and we’re going to what you’re going to do is you’re going to get this together um

Add the sugar in and you’re going to get a nice ribbony texture now I just ask Matt what kind of shortening he is using using and he uses Crisco that is non-r fat so make sure you buy the non-trans fats you don’t want trans fat it tastes

Good Mayor Bloomberg will get mad at you yeah we’ll have problems later on down the line that’s right all right so we’re just going to get this together for about 5 minutes and because again we’re short on time we’re going to come right over to this guy and before we do that

I’m going to have you bloom this cocoa with some hot water okay a/4 of a cup of and of cocoa powder and a/4 of a cup of water and what this does this really brings out that chocolatey flavor if you don’t do this you’re going to get a kind

Of bitter taste and then my favorite part is adding the red food coloring if you don’t mind I’m going to put this right in here okay and we’re going to mix this up red velvet cake traditionally two tablespoons of red col I’m sorry I keep forgetting to mention

That I know but what you’re going to do is the traditional red velvet cake was red from the cocoa we kind of bump it up a little bit of a notch add some red food coloring so it’s really bright red when you come out of the oven okay so

What we’re going to do is we’re going to set this aside to cool what about the vanilla um the vanilla and the buttermilk are going to go in after it’s afterward so I’m going to go ahead and turn this guy on this is that mixture that we started over there with the

Sugar and it’s beat up very smooth now yeah and I’m going to go ahead and add some eggs one at a time and when the eggs go in you want them to kind of mix completely before you add the next one all right okay and this is delicious and now that it’s all

In there I’m going to go ahead and crank this guy up and we’re going to get a nice smooth mixture okay so this is pretty this is completely dissolved it looks really good so why don’t while this is mixing add the buttermilk let’s add the buttermilk so one cup of Buttermilk you

Use a lot of Buttermilk in your cakes oh well buttermilk is such a nice rich ingredient I actually use more he uses buttermilk he uses sour cream he uses Chris I’m not scared of fat Bring It On in and how much vanilla you know what just eyeball it put I like a teaspoon

But I like a little more vanilla in my stuff there we go all right so while that’s doing that I’m going to go ahead and put some salt into to my flour mixture and this is cake flour it’s 2 and 1/2 cups of cake flour non- selfing

Non-rising and you’re just going to kind of sift this with the Whisk and what we’re going to do is alternate the dry with the wet I’m going to start with the Dr you can do that on this side if you go on one side I’ll go on the

Other and what we’ve done in this bowl we’re going to put a little bit of baking soda it’s one t teaspoon and one teaspoon of the cider vinegar and what you’re going to get is kind of like cider vinegar in here a oh yeah little little chemical reaction yeah all right

Stir this guy up really good and smells delicious by the way definitely and this gets dumped right into the cake batter okay all right now because we’re making a heart cake we’re going to put this mixture into a pan that’s lined with parchment paper and buttered and floured and we’re going to

Put it in for 325° between 20 and 30 minutes I want to know what you do with all the scraps uh we eat the scraps anytime oh anytime there’s a scrap at the bakery I put it right in my mouth I I can’t control myself it’s but this is actually a really

Delicious red velvet cake look at the batter everybody isn’t that great well we’re going to get this in the elev this oh but it’s good and you just have a little bit of ground cinnamon to your buttercream it kind of is like it’s perfect for Valentine’s Day very good

And what we’re going to do is we’re going to crumb coat this baby right now okay so just a little bit and you just want to push it out crumb coating really keeps it nice and neat um you don’t need a huge bunch of

Icing on top of it oh so this is the filling right now yeah this is the filling we’re just going to give this a nice little batch here so you’re going to need um and we’re going to need another heart did you cut me one out I

Did indeed oh my gosh here’s one for you and I’ll try not to eat this as I put it on the cake you’re going to flip this over invert it put it on top press it down just a little bit we’re not trying to you know really squish this up and

We’re going to take another batch of this frosting and so upside down yeah put it upside down it makes the surface nice and flat okay all right so again we’re just going to push the frost ing out to the edges of the cake and the reason we use this bowl is because we

Are going to get crumbs hence the name crumb coat right so as we ice the cake you’re going to see littleit every cake I’ve ever made I crumb coat I mean every wedding cake especially because you just don’t want a One crumb will ruin the whole appearance and you know what

Afterwards you can eat the crumbs you really can nice big bowl of icing and crumbs oh stop it it’s like it’s kind of heavenly all right so um the whole idea is to go all the way around the cake with a nice thin coat and we’ve actually

Got some prepared here okay so but do you chill this before you you want to chill this for about 10 minutes it gets it nice and um set yeah once it’s crumb coated actually if you’re going to make a lot of these for presents uh you

Should crumb coat them and put them in the fridge and put them in the fridge and you know what there there’s no problem if you actually leave it in there for more than 10 minutes so now we’ll just I’m going to take this guy which has been chilling for about 10

Minutes and you kind of see the nice heart shape it’s real important when you crumb coat this guy that you keep that heart shape intact and we’re going to switch bowls cuz in this bowl have the CRS licking everything I love this frosting you guys and we’re going to

Just dab on you need a a non crummy I oh yeah thank you you want to wipe that off thank you very much okay so we’ll continue we’ll we’ll finish all this don’t worry we’re not going to waste anything no and we’re going to eat these afterwards okay all right so um if

You guys so now what’s your buttercream made the buttercream is really nice Farm Fresh butter we have um we actually cook it it’s a cooked buttercream as opposed to just a beaten you make a sugar syrup a nice yeah nice sugar syrup uhhuh okay

And we use this as the base of all of our frostings you can put spices in here whatever you want to put in here and it will add a whole dimension to your flavor I like the idea that you put cinnamon in it yeah I love the

Cinnamon and we’re just going to keep going up and down the cake until we get a nice fun heart- shape like those conversation Hearts as we go around you can keep turning this if you have a lazy Susan at your house this will make it

Much much easier if you do a lot of cakes and or even just a cake a month you should get one of these there’s yeah there’s no reason not to have one of these guys cake stands cuz they uh they are fantastic you keep keep it right out

On your counter and keep stuff on it I keep salt and pepper on mine when I’m not using it for cake decorating now if you guys order this from baked we will not put anything um sexy on the cake but if you guys put this at home you could

Write whatever you guys want on your heart cake at home you won’t even if we order it no I might put something sexy but I don’t want to go too far you know I don’t know who you’re giving this to if you’re giving them out to more than

One person all right so I’m going to go ahead and snip off in here all this is is melted chocolate this melted chocolate is perfect to write with on these heart cakes snip them off at the very end right there and I don’t know what we’re going to put on this your

Doesn’t look nice enough why I don’t have a lot of time you can’t you can’t put a name on that oh come on now I have to get mine much nicer than that well she’s you know Joey’s rushing us over here are you going to rush us Joey I am all right

What should we put on this guys how about be mine so we’re just going to nice okay and gently write be mine I’m going to write H throb oh see I wouldn’t write that why not well maybe I would heart throb I mean For Heaven’s Sake that’s oops that’s a very modest

Thing I think I cut too much of this coret yeah yours that’s but you know what I’m going to eat this right away so nobody will even see it all right thank you guys so much if you have any questions about this it’s on Martha stewart.com John George says

This um simple moist chocolate cake is the dessert of choice at his house and it’s perfect for Valentine’s Day look how beautiful that is and it’s rich and you can eat it with cream without cream with cream without cream with ice cream without cream whatever topping you want

To put so fantastic it’s very rich but fairly simple to do so we we use him about 3 and 1 half ounces of U Bitter Sweet Chocolate so what kind of chocolate do you use I use I like to use a valona okay 70% cocoa butter mhm I’m using 4

Tbspoon of butter and we’re just going to melt this together okay of a double boiler there we go okay we have some already uh melted here oh it’s melted yeah it’s already melted I’m going to start whipping my egg whites how many egg whites three okay so

We have the chocolate here which is melted with the butter I’m going to add one egg yolk at the time one just to tap out the chocolates so you’re a chef but you also like to bake or at home yeah you know on the weekend I I love to pastries and

Desserts and I think you know St the restaurant people want a lot of presentation at home is just something very simple for the family you know so I’m adding here half a cup of confectional sugar okay a te of is that beaten enough a little a little bit tiny

B more on half a cup of almond flour oh almond flour okay keeps the the cake very moist so we just mix that all together so it’s almost a flowless cake yeah a tiny little bit of flour yeah tin and then we’re going to add the egg

Whites into it so um tonight at the restaurants any Trend anything happening that’s it’s it’s Madness it’s Madness on a Valentine’s you know everybody calls last minute friends and friends family forgot they forgot to make yeah is that is that good now they want a table

That’s good y okay they want a table they want a table now so we we usually reserve some sometimes you just create tables like for the people with band so I’m adding a little bit of a EG whites start so look how easy this is now how long does this bake bakes for

About 20 minutes oh so really and truly 17 20 minutes um if you can’t get a reservation at Jean George tonight or at ABC Kitchen or any one of the other many restaurants you could actually make this at home tonight you could yeah these are really it’s really lovely and all the

Recipes in the book are are just um I like the chicken and vinegar that’s one of my favorite things yeah it’s just so lovely that’s what I like to do at home you know it’s really a one pot meal you know put everything on a meal of the

Table have people sa themselves y so you mix all that together and JRE just bought uh a building um a famous old Inn the pound rdge Inn the Pound Ridge in in uh in pound Prett CL both of us it’s like 10 minutes from my house when is it

Going to open we probably open in the fall in SE oh I cannot wait we need another fine restaurant up there and it’s going to be fabulous it’s so exciting so here I have a little pan with Bott I’m adding my chocolate mixture so just buttered buttered and

Fled that’s it it is that like an 8 in um kiche pan that’s correct okay 8 in so look how simple that is simple oh delicious we and then you bake it fantastic Fair simple 350° for 17 minutes 17 minutes you know you put put a knife in there if it removes clean

That’s good we’re going to make that let it cool for 10 minutes and it just cocoa on top oh cocoa pot on top okay yeah I want a little tiny taste so we’re creaming one stick of butter okay okay at room temperature with 1/4 cup of

Sugar this is a um a very nice um cookie dough we’re making the vanilla cookie and uh you add the hugs yeah you add you can you can uh sift again since now you’re an expert quarter of a teaspoon of salt add to that I’m adding one egg

Just one of these yep and the baking powder how much how much does it say in there uh half a teaspoon okay all of it you have to knock it out get it all in there see this is why baking gets me in trouble I cook a lot yeah so you’re this

And that it’s not as precise yeah baking is an exact science yeah well because the finished product works better if it’s exact I mean if you add too much flour you’re going to get too heavy a thing right or you’re too dry and you

Won’t be able to roll it out I got into this thing where I make my wife’s birthday cake from scratch every year oh I did it one year I was like oh isn’t that romantic you are a baker it takes me so long because I have to redo

Everything twice oh yeah like the the frosting will be what month is her birthday August oh all sweaty same as mine and then it’s hard it’s hard with the humidity of August I know do you have an air conditioned kitchen uh yeah we do but then we then I tried a box

Cake one year and she was very angry what’s a box cake well like a mix like from a box oh my God yeah you would have been mad too watch my baking show all right I will be very helpful to you all right you’ll get me through this one so

There’s your batter really cookie dough it’s not really a batter it’s a cookie dough so now we have it chilled we made it into a nice rectangle you have the chocolate I have the vanilla and notice we’re rolling right out on the S pad okay this is the baking this is the

Baking silicon coated pad that you don’t you don’t have to use butter or grease or anything that’s pretty see we bake right on it uh you don’t have one of those no oh well now I’m going to must get one and then I hope there’s no security here I’m going to take

It you know what if if this is a successful segment if you cut out those chocolate cookies you’re going to get one yeah yeah and see what it is it’s Martha Stewart collection oh I know her yeah so my name is on there and you

Can’t get away from me you’ll have it in your kitchen so see how I’m rolling yes but you’re not well cuz I don’t want to hit your hand oh I’m sorry I’ll move I don’t want to hurt you no you won’t not too hard lightly lightly lightly why

What happens when you do it too hard well because then you’re you know what’s the sense just roll it out evenly and lightly see that’s that’s a that’s a guy thing like I’m just going to do it no but then but you squash it you don’t

Have to see I want I want it all one thickness I see okay so it’s a little less than an eighth of an inch thick when you’re finished right okay but see how easy it is it’s not cracking it’s fing all over the place piece of cake

Yeah I keep saying that and it’s so CNY it’s a cookie so now we’ve already cut out your kisses now you make you do your hugs and uh I am now these I think these are from the children’s baking kit oh really not positive but I have a feeling uhhuh I

Went on your website last night cuz I knew I was coming in and my kids saw we were going to make these cookies oh do they want the little box of them oh boy okay if I don’t bring them home they’re going to be so put so do it a little

Harder here just do it down here okay a little bit okay and then you can press this out I press out the middle of the oh and then you can make these you can make those for the children let’s not get crazy well why not children deserve everything right they do they’re the

Coolest they are how many how old are yours five and eight oh lovely you know what would be a good app what if you could come up with an app that answers my 5-year-old’s question why every time I do anything why I’m going to go to Martha Stewart today why that’s right

Why because we’re going to bake some cookies why if you could have an app that I just press and the answers all those wise okay well those questions are really good questions and you and you do have answers you must have patience and take the time to answer them I make up a

Lot of the answers that’s okay yeah they really because I’m a comedian they never they always I’ll answer them and then they just go mom yeah why is he telling the truth so preheat your oven for these cookies to 350 uh rotate halfway through right and um and then oh before you put

Them them in the oven sprinkle with this sanding sugar okay oo sprinkle just a little bit Prett yeah it makes them glisten nice and uh you want to taste one of these yes please there just taste one of those you want chocolate you want

A heart a hug or a kiss I’m going to take the kiss okay I’ll take a a um hug oh perfect this is my kind of cookie these are mering cupcakes with a raspberry puree and raspberries look what’s inside whipped cream and uh raspberries we have six egg whites in here

And you can add the sugar little by little uh three um excuse me 1 and 3/4 cups of sugar and just add that in we’re going to put a little bit of vinegar one teaspoon of white vinegar into the mering a half a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of best vanilla so

You’re not cooking at all really you’re writing songs is your wife cooking oh yeah she’s a great cook you can add that faster now okay just sort of break up the egg whs a little bit first and then as they get frothier you add the sugar a little more

Quickly and you beat it and beat it and beat it until they really get a lot of volume so now just a drop or two of food coloring and it will turn a real pretty pink like this so you have a Piping Bag there okay and just pull this out like

That yeah and then squeeze only with one hand like up here okay yeah hold it like that are you right-handed I am okay so you squeeze from this hand and you point with this hand okay and these are already um uh sprayed there’re two little paper cups and they’re sprayed

With vegetable spray so they don’t stick and then you go into the bag just remember squeeze only with that one hand everybody’s tempted and fill this up to the top and then make a little peek and the reason we’re putting them far apart so they don’t touch each other these get

Baked in the oven at a very low temperature 225 for about uh 3 hours or three and a half hours and you don’t want the to get these Brown so keep that oven really low and we have to make a raspberry curd to go inside okay which is like a raspberry

Sauce like a lemon curd it’s um more like a sauce and so there’s four egg yolks and you can um just add that sugar in here we’ll stir that in this is an easy Cur cuz you mix everything in at once and a pinch of

Salt always a pinch and a/4 cup of lemon juice yes and this uh get that cooking and this I don’t know why the sugar is in two different parts but just add that too one and A4 I think that 1/4 cup of sugar save a/4 cup

Cuz I think I was supposed to mix that into the creeme fresh so one and a/4 cups of sugar not a qu of a cup into the four egg yolks okay this gets real creamy that’s good yeah perfect and The Raspberries you get just dump them in

Just dump them in it’s okay they’re going to get nice and mushed up and all the butter so it’s one whole stick of butter here’s little that’s good and just cook this until it’s actually thick over um a ban Marie Cook and Cook and then you’ll pass it through a

Strainer so that you won’t have any of the seeds and uh you’ll have to get it nice and cool you can get it cool over ice water or you can get it uh or you can just refrigerate it but see how it all gets mushed up MH and it’ll get nice

And thick I’ll turn this down cuz we have one that’s already done so this is the sugar for the creme fresh two cups of creme fresh and you can use whipped cream if you like so here you have your um little cupcake okay and uh take one

Of the papers off you can take the other paper off if you uh if you want you can leave it on too but just try to peel it off as gently as you can pull that off it’s good to get this off but it what’s cute about this is that it

Actually um oops I’m going to leave this one on this one is this one is acting up you oh you got yours out perfectly so now you take this little saw this is from our pumpkin carving okay if you don’t have this you can use a tiny

Serrated knife uh and just saw the top off right right here okay okay just stick it in like that and go around like that all the way around without oops without breaking it like I just did okay here’s and so here’s one for you here use this one okay cuz that one

Got a little crunched and I’ll use this one and then you can fill that with um a little bit of the raspberry curd like that and some of those beautiful red raspberries does it matter which one goes first no whatever you want I think these have to be cooked a little longer

These are a little wet inside there so a little bit of the curd a little bit of the cream some of the raspberries like that and you have a utterly delectable dessert here we’ll start over here because these are the these are the first we have templates on online uh for

These little color you you get your kids just to color in the cute little labels there’s of course the little monkey and the star and lots of little circles and U let them color them in do you have kids one perfect I know this is this is and

So then so then these you just you just cut you know in half like this and so and fold it in half and you send and your son does he have a little friends that he wants to send Valen times too he does is he allowed to eat candy at 3 not

Really I know I should I know well I I pretend I don’t know when he and his daddy eat the this this actually is like this would be their idea of Heaven I bet yes yeah I pretend not to know though and I give them you know now you’re a

Crafter I am you yes like what do you make oh my you know actually um whatever inspires me um painting scrapbooking I love I actually love your scrapbooking um stuff oh yeah yes I do I like it because it’s so um it’s simple but it it really goes to complement your archives

The things that you’re instead of making it all about that it’s about your pictures and your memories right yes so we we like making memories and uh it is indeed a nice thing to do and so you have a little cellophane bag like this just fold down the tops three times or

Four times whatever whatever works for the amount of candy that you have and using I like to use this double stick tape because it uh really holds and you don’t see it on the cellophane and just secure the top and then put your little label on like this isn’t that cute and

You have a little gift and this too you just put a piece of double stick tape oops I’m getting too long right here in the top two pieces actually on either side and just stick this on um and uh if your your son wants to give it to you know all his little

Friends a little just a little gift bag you don’t give him this this is a gumball don’t choke on it fre a all but they’re very charming and uh there’s all kinds of little little things that you can uh put into the bags and uh yeah

Look how cute and so this is another idea over here at Staples now we have a a line of Home SL Office boxes and things these are sharine they’re they’re textured paper that look like the shark skin that very expensive shark skin so I thought what a beautiful present for teachers or

For uh special special people uh you can put the candy in a in a cellophane bag like this you can just put it right in the box if you like or um line it with tissue and you have you have the different size the long box okay and I’m

Going to put yeah whatever whichever candy fill those little little uh squares and each box each layer or each little square will be a specific kind of candy and this looks so pretty like this fold it up and it looks like it comes from like the best store don’t you think

It it really does and these stack look at look at this they’re engineered to uh sit right inside one another I love these boxes and these are what you use on your desk for your for your um um little paper clips for whatever whatever little thing extra coins and then this is called

An X band this is a band that’s in the shape of an X and it goes around boxes very nicely so uh you just put this one way and then the other way the opposite direction like this do any of you have these xbands any place instead of using

Two bands it holds it in place and then this little label is um part of it uh and you can WR on there anything you like but look at that it holds it so nice we always are looking for new ways to package Valentine’s Day sweets and

This here we’ve created a cute way to give your Valentine his or her favorite candies and at the same time heart-shaped cookie cutters so um very easy to do if you have a tin or a box um or even one of those clear plastic containers you can uh arrange some heartshaped cookie cutters

Takes a little doing to get these all in I don’t know if I’ll get all of them in we’ll try there that’s good and you can actually put one right in the middle and then fill with your favorite candies these are cherry lovers Cherry colas that goes right

Here and these are oh I love lava balls fill that with lava balls all these candies are made by a company called gimbals and uh everyone in the audience is taking home a bag of cherry lovers these are great because they’re uh peanut free they’re tree nut free

They’re gluten free they’re dairy free they’re egg free and trans fat-free so um you you can serve them to your kitties um pretty safely and here we go with oh these are called Cherry lovers kiwi cherry those those are actually very pretty and then fill the um spaces with oh I think

I’ll do jelly beans and I think I oh actually now I can fit another heart in here and I will do these These are called Cherry lovers Cherry vanillas oh I love all these and so you know everybody needs um heart-shaped cookie cutters and you can find them um

At um in different cooking Stores um all the different shape and sizes of the cookie cutters and now fill in all the way around with jelly beans don’t mix up the candies you don’t want jelly beans in with your with your cherry colas it’s not good or your Joey colas don’t ever

Mix anything with Jerry with the Joey colas so there once the box is filled just cover it tie it with a beautiful ribbon and uh give it for a Happy Valentine’s Day we’ll be right back