Royal Icing Hearts

Slade had his four month old check up this week. You mom's know what that means....SHOTS! A mother's nightmare.   Luckily this time he only received two injections.

The first one he didn't even let out the slightest whimper....oh but the second one he was not pleased with. It was the saddest little cry I ever heard. Totally broke my heart.

He's over it now and on to being a happy four month old. Smiling at everything. He even giggles...but only at me. I'm his favorite. He told me this.

I heard him.

It's true.

Well even if he didn't actually say it because he can't say words yet, we all know it's true. You can just tell.

Pay no attention to the picture of him sleeping on daddy with his favorite toy. I'm still his favorite. Daddy is just snuggly.  I fall asleep if I lay on him too. He's good like that. 

This week I made tons of cookies. Which means tons of icing.....leftover icing. Since I had a good bit of red left over I thought I'd put it to good use and make some royal icing hearts. They were really easy to make.

Wanna give it a try?

Ok, put your red icing in a bag with a #2 tip. If you want bigger hearts, use a bigger round tip. I used a #2 for mine.

Get out a sheet of wax paper.

Begin by squeezing a dot onto the wax paper, then stop squeezing as you pull down.

Then squeeze another dot next to first one....stop squeezing and pull down forming a heart.

Repeat this a five thousand times or until you're sick of piping hearts. It's totally easy.

Let these dry for a day. You want to be sure they are completely dry. Then just simply peal them off the wax paper. Store them in an airtight container and use on cookies, cupcakes or whatever else you want to add little hearts to.

 Hope y'all have a totally fabulous weekend!

Valentine's Lingerie Cookies

What's Valentine's without a little lingerie.....right?

This Valentine's day I do NOT want lingerie.....nope....a bottle of anti-nausea meds and a pillow will be the best thing my husband can get me. Secretly that is what I'm wishing for. It's the simple pleasures in life right? 

The first cookies I ever made were bra and panties cookies. They were for the deployed soldiers in my husband's unit.

My husband has been deployed twice, so I've made my fair share of lingerie cookies. I'll show you how to make a variety of bra and panties cookies at a later date. For today, we're going to make red with black polka dots. It's a very simple one to do. 

First you will cut out heart shaped cookies and cut the pointed end off. 

Then bake and cool your cookies. 

With red royal icing and a #2 tip,  pipe your outline for the bra. Let dry about 15 minutes.

With red flood icing, fill in bra section. 

Add straps with red royal icing and a #2 tip. I made two lines for straps then piped dots in between. 

Let dry several hours or overnight.

After bra is dried add a center dot. 

For the panties pipe outline with red royal icing and a #2 tip. Let dry 15 min.

fill in panties with red flood icing. Add another outline above first line with red royal icing and #2 tip. 

Add dots with the red royal icing and #2 tip. Let cookie dry several hours.

With black royal icing and #1 tip add dots to bra and panties. Allow to dry.

Valentine Cupcake Cookies

Stores are coming out with holiday stuff earlier and earlier. When I went to Hobby Lobby the other day to grab some Mardi Gras sanding sugars for my giveaway, they were already putting out Easter stuff.

You think they could wait for one holiday to be over before they start putting out stuff for the next. 

Watch, next year they'll be selling Christmas stuff in May.

I'm not sure about you, but I can't get all excited and want to buy stuff when it isn't even close to that time of year. 

I managed to GLANCE at the Easter stuff.......that's right, I glanced. I didn't look long enough to purchase, but didn't look too fast as to not see.

See....I know how to do it. 

Ok well you're here on my blog and we are on the proper season/holiday. So you get Valentine's day stuff.  I promise that I won't start Halloween now or anything crazy like that.....okay? Sound good? 

Good, we're on the same page.

Today I'm going to show you how to make Valentine's cupcakes.

First roll out your sugar cookie dough and cut out cupcakes.

I have a great sugar cookie recipe if you need one.

Bake and cool your cookies. I like to do this the day before.

Using a pink royal icing and a #2 tip outline the cookie, making a cupcake liner.

Let dry about 15 minutes.

Now with pink flood icing, fill that part in. Allow to dry several hours.

Now with red royal icing and a #2 tip outline a heart at the top of cupcake.

Let dry about 15 minutes. 

Fill heart with red flood icing. Allow to dry several hours.

With white royal icing and #2 tip, Outline white part of cupcake.

Let dry about 15 minutes.

Fill section with white flood icing.

While the white icing is still WET, put some red sprinkles on. 

You could use any sprinkles you choose. Heart sprinkles would be cute.

Let cookie dry several hours.

Now outline the heart with red royal icing and add lines to the cupcake liner.

Enjoy your cookies for Valentine's day.......or make them for November, if you like to do things early like the stores.....just kidding.

~ENJOY

Love Bird Cookies

Remember what it was like when you first fell in love? When everything was new and exciting.

Remember acting like little love birds. Always holding hands, kissing, using mushy love talk. Yeah, those were the days.

The days before you had to clean his hair out of the sink from his morning shave......before you had to pick up his dirty clothes off the floor.......and before you knew of all his disgusting habits. You remember the days before that right?

Those were the days......

Well my hubby and I are still like love birds.....and he doesn't have any disgusting habits.....he even picks up all his dirty clothes and puts them in the properly sorted laundry baskets.......

AHHHHH YEAH RIGHT!!!! Totally Fantasy.....but it's a good fantasy.

Well this fantasy got me thinking about cookies. Then again, everything has me thinking about cookies.

I bought this paisley cutter from Ecrandal right before Christmas and never got around to using it. I knew when I saw it, I was going to use it for quite a few things. Mainly I wanted it to make birds. So, when I started thinking of love birds I was so excited to use my new cutter.

First roll out your dough and cut out paisley shapes and a heart shapes.
Bake according to your recipe directions.

**TIP: If you want birds facing each other be sure to flip some of the paisley shapes BEFORE baking. Otherwise you have to decorate the back of the cookie. Which isn't the end of the world, but isn't how I wanted to do mine.

 Using pink royal icing and a #2 tip, outline cookie. 

With pink flood icing, fill entire cookie. Let dry overnight.

Outline heart cookie with red royal icing. I just used the bottle of flood icing. About 20 second consistency. I didn't feel like putting it in a bag :)

Then Fill with the red 20 second icing. Let dry overnight.

Add eyes. You could use black candy beads if you're not comfortable piping. 

Then add a dab of royal icing and lay heart on top for wing. Be sure your hearts are completely dry to prevent sticking your finger in them like I did and making a dent.

Allow several hours for icing to dry under the wing.

Valentine's Owl cookies

How cute are these? Other than their jacked up eyes. I should NOT have done them first. Or I could have outlined them.

Everyone seemed to go crazy over owls a while back and I just didn't see the excitement until I made these owl cookies back in October. Then I just loved owls too.

Had to even buy the babies some cute owl jammies.

Well here are some Valentine's Day Owls.

My teenage daughter Miss B and I decided instead of giving out Valentine's cards this year, she would give out Valentine's cookies to all her friends. Isn't that a cute idea?.....although now I've gotta make all the cookies.

And when Miss B decided this.....my three year old Miss P decided she was going to need some for her dance class......FYI there is NO dance class. She pretends to have a class all the time and orders cookies from me. Too funny huh?

Maybe when she gets older she will remember actually being in dancing school and I won't have to actually bring her to one. What do you think? Yeah, I didn't think so either.

Now I'm getting the oven heated up for cookies for an imaginary class. Something simple.....maybe imaginary cookies? Just kidding, I couldn't do that to her.

Do your kids do silly things like have imaginary classes? Please tell me she's normal....five kids and this is the first one who has an imaginary something.

You could also make owl cookies with a heart cutter like Sweet Sugarbelle did here and just do them in red and white or pink and white.

Valentine Heart Cookies

Ok......let's talk about spiders. Yes SPIDERS.  I'm so afraid of spiders it isn't funny.

I'm constantly looking out for those eight legged creatures.

Well last night I'm in the shower getting ready to wash my hair and  I give the shower a look over for spiders......a few times.

 NONE.....this is always a GREAT thing.

Then it comes time to pick up my scrunchy body washy thingie.....you know what I'm talking about,  and you have some crazy name for it too.

ANYWAY, it occurs to me that a big spider could be nestled up in that sucker somewhere.

NO WORRIES.....it was spider free.

However, I'm becoming more aware that I've got a spider problem. I swear it must have taken me fifteen more minutes to take a shower because of my mad spider search.

No, Seriously I lost fifteen whole minutes of my dull life looking for spiders when I could have used that fifteen minutes to cookie.....or finally fold that laundry. But I did my search anyway......as always.

And yes......I shake out the towel before using it. There could be one of those nasty things in their hiding...waiting to pounce on me.

I've got major issues. I admit it. That's the first step right?

I NEED HELP.

Alrighty, lets get on with the cookies. That's really what you're here for and not to hear me babble about my psychological issues.

So happy sweet love thoughts right?

Thoughts of Love, Hearts, roses.....Valentine's Day cookies.

I Heart U cookies

Oh My Goodness......Skyrim is the DEVIL.  Seriously.

For those of you who know about the video game called Skyrim, you know it is addicting and your husband, like mine is glued to the sofa playing that darn game he got for Christmas.

I asked my husband to take the blow up Santa down like four days ago. First he said it was a bit wet and needed to dry out because it was deflated and it had rained. UMMMMMM that was four days ago now.

Please get off the sofa!

I did say please. I really meant MOVE NOW!

But no.....he sat, staring at his 70 in 3d tv playing that dumb game! My Santa is still going strong in the front yard. Maybe he can stay there until next year? A little tacky yard decoration won't hurt....will it?

Then my husband thinks he's slick when he asks me to sit and watch him play because.......wait for it.....wait for it......so I can make Skyrim cookies. He goes on to say I can make swords, helmets, and ......I cut him off at helmets. He's a bit delusional.

At least I have my cookies....right?

Well I still love him but no Skyrim cookies for him. Nope, he will get valentines cookies.

I love you cookies is all he will get. I had to make these to remind me that yes I love you honey......
even though I'm sick of seeing you play that game.

These were so easy to make. A beginner can make these easily.

First outline letters in pink royal icing using a #2 tip. Let dry about 30 minutes.

Next fill letters with pink 20 second royal icing and allow to dry for a few hours.

Outline heart with red royal icing and let dry 30 min.

Then fill red heart with red 20 second icing. Allow to dry over night.

When letters are dry you can leave as shown here or you can add some stripes or dots as shown at top of post.