How to Decorate Valentine's Day Cookies
Here's how to decorate the perfect Valentine's Day Cookies
Equipment
- No. 21 Tip for white line down middle in grass
- No 3 tip optional in place of white writing gel
Ingredients
- Buttercream Frosting red
- Buttercream Frosting pink
- Buttercream Frosting white
- Edible writing gel white
- AmeriColor Gel Food Coloring Kit Recommended food coloring for homemade frosting
- Sparkling / Sanding Sugar red
- Sparkling / Sanding Sugar pink
- Hersheys Kisses Pink optional for decorating the empty spaces on the platter
Instructions
- No. 21 & No 3 Tip with White Frosting. Use store bought white, red, and pink (strawberry) frosting or dye frosting. Use the large round and heart cookie cutters to bake the cookies from the recipe above. NOTE: These cookies should not be considered stackable.
- LOVE COOKIES: Use pink frosting to frost the cookies. Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. Use white writing gel (or No 3 tip with piping bag). In center of cookie, write "LOVE". Then use white frosting icing with No 21 tip. Do a wave motion over and over again around the rim of the cookie. Allow to cure 10-15 minutes.
- HEART COOKIES: Use pink frosting to frost the cookies. Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. On a plate, sprinkle pink sugar all over the cookies, then gently turn the cookie on its side and tap the plate, getting most of the excess sugar off. Repeat these steps with red frosting and red sugar. You can also repeat these steps with white frosting and red sugar or white frosting and pink sugar, which I showed in the video. This can be an easy and convenient addition or substitution.
Video
Notes
NOTE: Though the frosting and writing gel will harden a bit, these will not be stackable cookies. Best to keep them in one layer at all times.
Easily use my no-spread sugar cookie recipe for the cookies and my buttercream frosting recipe for the frosting with the gel food dye I recommend (or buy the frosting store bought if the colors are in season). Both of my recipes are in the Holiday "Halloween" section! Enjoy!