Some splatter technique, some marbling, and (of course) some word play for this year’s love fest.
Tag Archives: Valentines Day cookies
This Glove offers Love
This mitten is smitten with sprinkles from Texan Sprinkles. Just offering up a little love to a fellow sweets entrepreneur!
Can’t Live without You
This Valentine’s Day set is dedicated to a constant in my life: coffee. It’s the BREWtal truth. It is also my Valentines nod to those who don’t currently have a significant other. Maybe you’ve BEAN there, done that.
You Rock Paper Scissors
I wish I had thought this idea up on my own. I saw it somewhere on the internet last year (sorry I am not crediting the “author”; let me know if you know who that is); the idea has been in the back recesses of my mind ever since waiting to be cookie.fied. It works beautifully as a Valentines set. We’re (not) playing games this February 14th!
ConNECKed
Last Valentine for 2016.
Star Wars Valentine
Let the 2016 valentine season begin. First up is my ode to Star Wars 2016. It’s a War on word play.
Happy Valentine’s Day 2015
Hope this day is all that you would hope it to be- whether you are in it for love, hate, or simply the massive quantities of candy. Sorry for the late posting. I realize that it is almost
ValenTIME… This is FOURm me TWO you.
Our daughters are amazing young ladies; they are the BALM diggity! Here’s how I let them know.
Okay, I am not KITTEN around anymore. These were for my cat loving friend. My take on the retro ‘smitten kitten.’
Other Valentines
Just some other Valentines Day cookies… happy 14th!
A cookie a day keeps the doctor hap.pay!
Hope there was no bitter in your Valentines Day…
You make me happy…
Did Cupid’s arrow hit the mark?
Cookie stack.
Mixed heart plate.
More conversation hearts.
Conversation Hearts
Traditional cookies designs are not usually my “thing”… but conversation hearts open up endless possibilities on what to write. I went with simple food related topics on happy, bright colors. I didn’t know whether I preferred hand printing with food markers or stamping with “typewriter” font. Typewriter won the day but I have a few of the other too.
I started by using flood consistency royal icing in deep pink, sky blue, electric green, and white to cover heart shaped cookies. I let them dry overnight (8 hours- ish) before handling them again.
I mixed a little almond extract with red red Americolor gel and painted it on the top of my rubber letter stamps. To assure alignment, I Scotch taped the “word” together for even spacing. I experimented doing a few free hand too; that resulted in an old school, quirky typeface look.
The sky is the limit as to what message you want to convey! Let me know what works for you?!
Cloud 9
Inspiration comes from strange and wondrous places. Instagram holds treasures; that is where I found sewlovetheday and my inspiration for this BIG 7.5 x 7.5″ cookie (check out her daughter’s sew-love-the-day-blog…also chock full of goodies!). I love happy, clean designs with fun as a founding principle.
Using royal icing, I first made the number “9”s on wax paper. Could not decide what color it should be so I made several choices. PS. I did not have a cloud cookie cutter so I drew a couple clouds on card stock, took scissors to the one I thought would work best, and used a regular, sharp knife along the outside of the shape to cut it out of the dough.
After they set completely (4 hours was enough), I decorated the cloud and the little hearts. Place the “9” on the cloud while still wet. I learned from the “love you to the moon and back” cookie to make the big cookie base royal icing a 9-10 second flooding at most (thin for me). Place the cloud and heart cookies on while base icing is still wet. Final details such as the “lace” around the edge and the dots went on after base was dry/4 hours or overnight. Used Americolor sky blue, deep pink, white, and red red.
Mama Mayer Bakery 