Valentines Cookies for K

I made a bunch of Valentines cookies for my sister to take to school for her party. This whole sugar cookie decorating is becoming such fun! I even got a compliment from my father to do with how impressed he was on how they turned out.

Valentines Cookies

Last night I went over to help my neighbour decorate cookies for he son's JK class valentine's party. She made the cookies, and I am not sure what recipe she followed. Here are some of the fruits of our labour...

They were large cookies so they took quite a bit of work. I find working with a smaller tip (#2 or #3) work nicely, it takes more time but I find it works out fairly neatly. and I used a #1 for the writing. She was working with #3 & #4 tips and I think she found her flooding tended to run down the side. When making the edging for the flooding, I think that more space needs to be left along the edge to hold the icing in rather than right along the edge (as then gravity works against you) I really enjoyed the squiggle design of the blue heart (in the middle)

stainglass window cookie pops

I tried my hand at making suckers yesterday. They turned out great...they were watermelon flavour.

I forgot to take a photo of the final product and I gave them all away that night.

Also last night was the Valentine's party with my Girl Guides. We made chocolates using some heart molds & some using valentine cookie molds and then we also made stain glass window cookie pops. (candy used was jolly ranchers) They turned out GREAT! and then we finished off the evening with some Love Potion (which was a float using rasperry sherbet, pink lemonade and some 7up)

sugar cookies

Yesterday my neighbour came over and while our 2 year olds played together, we tried our hand at flooding sugar cookies (I need to work at adding less colour to the icing as the pink and green turned out much brighter than needed). We also experimented with a couple of different icing recipes. One we LOVED. The second we DIDN'T! the second one had meringue powder in it.

construction chocolates

I saw this mold and knew I needed it. My son is crazy for all things construction these days. I did them using using white, milk and dark chocolate. (Those were all I had on hand that evening). I think I will try them again with maybe using some other colours.

Since using the mold with chocolate I have since used it for making my own jellies. The backhoe didn't work well with the jellies as the back scoop is much thinner than the rest and ended up breaking off when I took it out of the mold. I pieced it back together for the photo, and my son loved to eat it regardless...

Coffee Sugar Cookies

I came across this recipe on the I am baker sight (link in below post) and thought I would give it a try. I first drizzled red royal icing on them, then semi-sweet bakers chocolate

They were YUMMY! and everyone who I shared them with thought so to. I am going to make them again, reduce the sugar more and try increasing the coffee...

a new passion...

I have discovered a new passion for decorating cookies. I came across a couple of blogs earlier this year and I was inspired to try it for myself.

the two were I am Baker and Sweetopia