I love when a simple technique can be used to make something look extra special. These heart Valentine’s cookies are super easy to decorate, but yield impressive results.
I started with a batch of Chocolate roll-out cookie dough. I used a medium sized heart cutter to cut my shapes, then a small heart to cut out the center. You can bake up the mini hearts, or roll the dough back together to make more hearts with cut-outs.
When your cookies are baked and cooled, prepare a batch of Royal Icing. To copy this design, you’ll only need two bags of icing, one red and one white, both in a medium consistency. Certainly, adding pink details to these cookies would be beautiful as well.
How to create a string of hearts with icing…
1. Outline the cookies (as shown). Allow the outline to set up a bit (about 30 minutes).
2. Flood cookie with white icing.
3. Immediately, add dots (as shown).
4.-6. As soon as dots have settled into the white icing (about 30 seconds), drag a toothpick from the top center of the heart cookie, through the first dot. Continue dragging the toothpick through all of the dots on one half of the cookie, in one continuous motion (as seen above).
7. Repeat on the other side of the cookie, starting at the top, drag a toothpick through the dots.
8. Allow cookies to dry (about 8 hours).
9. Share with someone you love =)
Happy Decorating!
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Very cute- love the tutorial!
Very good idea, lovely recipes. Nice design.
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they look so pretty,LOVE them 🙂
Very, very nice! Simply but have a great effect!
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Beautiful!! And not hard to do, Love that!
I tried Royal frosting for the first time last week. It was tricky at first, but I got the hang of it. I found your site while perusing ideas on pinterest – and I LOVE your work and the tutorials – it has really helped!Do you ever add butter flavor (or any other, for that matter) to the frosting?
Oh you're killin' me!!! I can't decide between these, the chocolate chip roll out cookies, or the chocolate cookie/cherry icing sandwich cookies!!! I want to do them all, but don't have time!! 🙂 you are very talented. Thanks for the inspiration.
-Kirsten
Houston, TX
So cute…
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🙂