So even though I'm a tad bit late for a Valentine's Day post, I really wanted to show you guys a few pictures of the sugar cookies that I managed to get before these guys disappeared!
How fun are these?? Not gonna lie, they took me for FOREVER to make. I've never been a big fan of the sugar cookie making/decorating. It takes an hour or so to chill the dough, then you have to dirty the counter to roll them out, and then I always loose a few during the transfer from cookie-cutting to pan (although my average is steadily increasing). And thats just to get a cookie! Then you have to either decorate with sprinkles (which always fall off for me) or wait until they cool and then frost (and normally have to make a couple of different colors to make them look cute). I'm exhausted just typing it.
However, I have recently decided that I wanted to get better at this sugar cookie decorating thing, because they look so dang cute! So, I made my mother-in-laws sugar cookie dough (delicious) and cut out a bunch of heart cookies. I do have to say that using the Silpat to roll out the dough really helped these babies to not stick to the floured surface (yay!). While they cooled, I made royal icing and colored it PINK! I then piped a really thin line of icing to outline the heart. (I sucked at this. Like really sucked.) Then, I added a little bit of water to the icing and filled in the outline (although some turned into bleeding hearts since they leaked outside the icing lines. I was never great at coloring inside the lines anyways....). They didn't look great at this point - the lines weren't really straight and kind of lumpy and the icing filling wasn't quite even, so I decided to hide their flaws with SPRINKLES - and it really worked!! I loved the pink on pink icing/sprinkle combo. I also made some red icing and put the same pink sprinkles on them - the colors didn't turn out in the picture, but I loved the contrast and it was probably my favorite color combo.
I didn't think that these were awful for my first attempt. And I actually had a fun time doing it, until I got to the dirty dishes part. I'm pretty sure they tasted good since they were gone by just the next day on our way down to the beach - we even had to make an emergency trip to a cooking store to buy more cookie cutters so that we'd have some cookies to eat ON Valentine's Day! I hope that everyone had a great valentine's day (better late than never)!!! Thanks for stopping by!!!
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