Tuesday 9 February 2010

SWEET HEART COOKIES


Are you stuck for a Valentine present for that special someone?  Look no further!  Here is an easy way to make a sweet treat for your valentine.
Inspired of course by my kidlets favourites, Love Hearts.

Ingredients

This recipe is taken from Pretty Party Cakes by Peggy Porschen
Mix together the butter and sugar until creamed.  Add the egg and then the flour. Mix and then knead slightly to make a firm dough.
  You can also add a teaspoon of vanilla essence if you wish or swap 50g of flour for cocoa powder to make chocolate cookies.


Then roll out the dough to about 1/4" thick and cut out your circles.

 
Chill again for 30 mins.
Then cook in a pre-heated oven 180 for 10-12 mins

Colour your fondant, I use SugarFlair paste colours.  Use a tooth pick and put a small prick of colour on your fondant, it is better to have to use more than put too much at the begining.


Cut out the fondant into circles and glue it to the cookie with brushed on boiled water or mix some gum trag with water.


 Mix some  pink lustre dust with water and brush it onto a heart cookie cutter.  I used the wrong side of the cutter (if you know what I mean) as it is thicker. Then press it into the fondant, if the line isn't quite strong enough you can always touch it up with a paint brush.


I then used a small clean stamping kit to stamp the words on.

 

Apparantly this year 'Love Hearts' have added a new phrase.  
Can you guess which one it is? (answer at the bottom) 

You could deliver your Valentine goodies wrapped in cellophane with a suitable label.

 

I downloaded these two free fonts, wm valentine and  love letters  to make mine.  I cannot tell you enough how much I love free fonts, I bored friends and family for weeks when I discovered them.  You can then personalise your own label or click here and you can download my version. Thanks to Heartfelt Handmade for the technical advice and the felt heart.

 

Have a very sweet Valentines day!



13 comments:

  1. This is a fabulous idea, they look amazing!.........thanks for the tutorial!

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  2. These are gorgeous and your how-to is fab! Thanks so much for sharing x

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  3. These are really wonderful! And the blog makes it so easy to do!

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  4. Wow! Luuuuuurve it!!! xxxxxxxxxxx

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  5. Blimey Natasha! They ARE simply lovely, but my word, that is complicated...I think I'll leave it to the experts like you!

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  6. amazing! these are wonderful, got any left?!!
    x

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  7. So lovely!
    I'm sure they smell heavenly as well~

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  8. Those are wonderful...so pretty xx

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  9. I have an award for you on my blog!

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  10. Wonderful!!Have all the ingredients etc so will be making some myself...Happy Valentines..
    Warm Wishes,
    Cally x

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  11. just saw these at more than a mama blog. wow! they are so beautiful and the effort going into them is admirable. thank you.

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  12. What a fantastic blog,
    I love the clear instructions and they look delicious. I may be inspired to try biscuits again, as I have varying degrees of disasters over the years!

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