Simply Valentines cookies

Simply Valentines Cookies: Decorated Stacked Color-Dough Hearts (Tutorial)





You'll need:

Use a basic heart cutter for the main cookie.
Use mini cutters like these and these for the varying shapes.

Plan ahead where you'd like to place the mini cookies on the main heart cookies.

Place a dab of glaze on the back of the mini cookies to "glue" them to the heart cookie.

Add dots, lines, dashes,swirls, flowers, heart, etc to your heart and mini cookies.
Use your imagination.
I had a lot of fun with this part. :)




Simply Valentine Cookies

Simply Valentine Cookies: Stacked Colored-Dough Hearts (Tutorial)





To make stacked colored dough heart cookies,
knead some coloring into your cookie dough before baking.


Make different sized heart cookies that will stack well together.


"Glue" the cookies together with some glaze.

 Simple.......but so fun!


Simply Valentine Cookies

Simply Valentine Cookies: Rosebud Heart Cookies (Tutorial)





To make rosebud heart cookies you will need:


On the first day of decorating, you'll need to do two things.

First, outline and flood the heart cookies and allow to dry overnight.

Second, make the glaze transfer rosebud transfers.
 On a piece of parchment paper, pipe small circles of various sizes.
Allow to dry for at least 1 hour.
With a 1.5 PME tip, pipe a swirl over the top of the circles, keeping the lines from touching each other.
You may have to make the swirls more than once depending on whether or not
the bottom layer is dry enough.

On the second day of decorating, "glue" (with matching glaze color)
 the rosebuds onto the dried flooded heart cookies in whatever pattern you'd like.
You can also add some green leaves, if desired.


Simply Valentines Cookies: Colored Dough & Simple Designs (Tutorial)





Coloring your cookie dough can make really cute cookies without all the decorating fuss.

Once you've mixed up your cookie dough,
add some food coloring gel directly to the dough and combine with your mixer or with your hands.

WARNING: Not wearing gloves during this step might cause the following!



But trust me....adding color to your dough will be well worth it when you
see these fun colorful cookies baked up on a cookie sheet. :)


I chose to make small hearts with holes so I could hang them with ribbon or twine.


For some, I painted Americolor gels and airbrush colors on them
to give them an even more intense color.

For others, I added a few simple details with glaze to add a little variety.

There are so many fun ways you can present these simple Valentine cookies.


Stay tuned for more ways to used colored dough cookies.

Simply Valentine Cookies

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