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Love Letter Cookies

February 7, 2018

What is better than a love letter? An edible love letter!! Who wouldn’t want to get a sweet little love note that it completely made of sugar? 

I absolutely adore these cookies even though they are less than perfect. It’s those little imperfections that make them even cuter. I mean, if you look at a lined piece of paper, not all the lines are sharp or even. And neither is our handwriting (unless you are one of those amazing calligraphers, which I am most certainly not). 

Another thing to love about these cookies is that they are one of the easier cookies I have made in a while. It doesn’t really require a whole lot of technique to make the lined paper look. Then once they are dry, you can just write right on top. No fancy piping skills required!

Supplies Needed:

You will need some sugar cookies in any shape you would like, but I think a square or rectangle looks best for these little love note cookies.

Don’t forget the royal icing, which you will need in three colors: white, red, and blue (I used Sky Blue by Americolor). For both the outlining and filling I used flood consistency.

Since these cookies don’t require a lot of precision, I just used standard zip-top sandwich bags for the icing. While I love using these bags because they are cheap, easy, and the icing doesn’t flow out of the top, they do have their faults (watch all the way to the end of the video to see what I am talking about). 

You will also probably want to use either the rubber stamps, which I picked up at my local craft store or an edible food marker (also found at the craft store). I wanted to try out both the “typed” look and the handwritten look. I actually love both of them, so you may want to mix it up as well.


How to Make Them:

There is nothing better than a good old video to show you how I made them, right? 

What do you think? Do you think you could make these for Valentine’s Day? I am positive you can! Remember, the beauty is in the imperfections! 

 
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/ Filed In: Cookies New, Decorated Cookies, Desserts, Eat
Tagged: cookies, edible marker, hearts, love, stamps, Valentine's day

Buttercream Flower Heart Cake

February 5, 2018

If you have followed this blog or my Instagram long enough, you know that I love a good floral pattern. Most of the time you will find me adding flowers to cookies. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t perfect for cakes, too. 

Especially this Valentine’s Day cake in the shape of a heart!

The great thing about this buttercream flower heart cake is that both the flowers and the heart shape of the cake are actually pretty easy to achieve if you have the right tools on hand. 

All you need is a round cake pan, a square cake pan, and a few piping tips. You got all that, right? 😉

Tools Needed:

Well, pretty much all you need is a couple of cake pans and some piping tips. Okay, and maybe a few other things like food coloring. 

For the cakes, my recommendation is to make sure your round cake pan is equal in size to your square pan, if not smaller. I.e. if you have a 9″ square pan, use a 9″ round cake pan, too. However, if you only have a 9″ square pan and a 8″ round pan, you can cut the edges of the square cake to make an 8″ cake (which is what I did). Does that make sense?

To make the various shades of pink and green I mixed together some of my Americolor gel food coloring:

  • Lightest pink color is a mixture of taupe and light pink
  • Medium shade of pink is just a couple drops of maroon
  • Darkest shade of pink is watermelon and coral red
  • Light green is avocado
  • Dark green is forest green

To create the flower and leaf shapes, I used the following piping tips:

  • For the roses I used a #2D and #1M piping tips
  • The dark green leaf was created with #366 tip
  • For the light green blobs I used a #32 tip

Most of these piping tips come in this piping tip set. 

How to Make It:

Start by baking a round cake and a square cake in the flavor of your choice.  You can even use your favorite boxed mix if you like! Level the cakes so that they are both flat and both the same height. 

Cut the round cake in half so that you have two equal pieces. 

Place the to half rounds along two of the edges of your square cake to form a heart shape. How easy was that!?

Cover the entire cake in a layer of plain frosting so that all the pieces of the heart are stuck together. This layer of frosting doesn’t need to be pretty because it will get covered up. 

Divide the rest of the icing up in to several smaller batches and colors them in various shades. 

To decorate the cake, start by making the large roses to fill in most of the empty space of the cake. Then go in and fill in some of the holes with the leaves. 

Add more flowers and leaves until you can no longer see any of the cake underneath. 

You could totally make this! And I didn’t even tell you the best part. 

To make this cake you don’t even have to make anything from scratch. You could make your favorite boxed cake mix and even used the canned frosting. While I would highly recommend making your own frosting (this is my favorite buttercream recipe and this is my favorite cream cheese frosting recipe), I know not everyone has the time or desire to make frosting from scratch.

Plus, there is something so nostalgic about store-bought cake mix and frosting out of a can, right?

Now you have no excuse but to make this for your sweetheart, your kids, your mom, your dog, yourself. Whoever your Valentine happens to be!

 

/ Filed In: Cakes and Cupcakes, Cakes New, Eat
Tagged: buttercream, cake, cake decorating, frosting, hearts, Valentine's day

Valentine’s Day Heart Cookies

February 8, 2016

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Valentine’s Day was one of my favorite holidays as a kid! In elementary school we would all design a box or bag to attach to our desk, then we would all pass around those store-bought Valentine’s Day cards and candies. Sometimes, those kids with the super creative parents would even bring in homemade cards, which were the best!

I wish we could still do that as adults. I would love to walk around my office and hand out cards and cookies to all of my coworkers. Then I could spend the afternoon reading the corny cards, eating candy, and not working. 

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Even though I won’t be handing out Valentine’s Day cards, I will still be bringing in some Valentine’s Day treats for all my coworkers. Like these cute heart cookies, which were 100% inspired by this Pin. The original picture looks like they were made with chocolate and sugar cookie dough, but I wanted them to be more festive, so I made mine with pink and purple dough instead. 

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To get the little hearts within the big hearts, I first cut out small hearts in the pink dough. I then stuck the hearts on a small plate and put them in the freezer. Trust me, this makes the next step a lot easier. 

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I then cut out the same size heart in the purple dough and stuck the pink hearts in the void. 

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Once all the hearts are filled in, I cut out larger hearts, making sure to get some whole hearts inside. Naturally, you will have some dough left over after you cut out the hearts. Make sure to separate the pink dough from the purple dough so that you can reuse it. 

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Then just bake as normal! So easy, right? Sometimes decorating cookies can be very time consuming – making the icing, coloring the icing, decorating, then waiting for the icing to dry – it’s a lot. These are a great alternative to decorated cookies but look just as nice, don’t you think?

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/ Filed In: Cookies New, Decorated Cookies, Desserts, Eat
Tagged: hearts, sugar cookie, Valentine's day

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Hey there, I'm Lindsey. I'm a number cruncher by day and a home cook and baker by night. While I love to eat healthy and find fresh and healthy alternatives for my favorite foods, I will never turn down dessert! Life is all about moderation, right?

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