Heart-Shaped Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies

Instructions

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1. - Step 1: Bake the Cookies
2. - Prepare the roll-out cookie dough following the recipe instructions. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to about 1/8 in. thickness.
3. - Use the heart-shaped cutter to cut out your cookies. Any heart cutter will work here; however, we suggest using one about 3 in. wide so you have plenty of room for writing your message!
4. - Transfer your cut cookies to your prepared baking sheet. Bake and cool as directed.
5. - Step 2: Make the Royal Icing
6. - Make one batch of royal icing following the recipe instructions.
7. - Divide and tint the royal icing as follows: 3/4 cup blue (use Sky Blue color), 3/4 cup rose (use Rose color), 3/4 cup magenta (combine Violet and Rose colors), 3/4 cup purple (combine Red-Red and Violet colors), and 3/4 cup violet (use Violet color).
8. - Set aside 1/4 cup of full-strength icing of each color. We'll use this for the piping.
9. - Thin the remaining icing to flooding consistency. Check out our video on How to Make Royal Icing for tips on how to achieve the perfect consistency!
10. - Step 3: Flood Cookies
11. - Prepare 5 decorating bags, separately, with the thinned blue, rose, magenta, purple, and violet icings. Cut a small tip, about 1/4 in, off each bag.
12. - Outline and flood in the cookies, alternating colors as desired. If you have bubbles in your icing, you can use a toothpick to pop them.
13. - Once all your cookies have been flooded, let them dry overnight – at least 8 to 10 hours.
14. - Step 4: Pipe Your Messages
15. - Prepare 5 decorating bags with tip 2. Fill each individually with the full-strength blue, rose, magenta, purple and violet icings.
16. - Pipe messages on your cookies, alternating colors as desired. You can customize your messages to be whatever you'd like! Here are a few ideas we used: You + Me, Be Mine, Sweet, Hug Me, Text Me, Cutie Pie, Kiss Me, #Love, Besties, U R Rad, XOXO, and Babe.
17. - Scared to pipe lettering? We feel ya! You can use edible food markers to write your messages first, then pipe over the letters with royal icing.
18. - Once piped, let your cookies dry at room temperature, about 1 to 2 hours. Once dried, cookies can be packaged in boxes or treat bags and gifted to friends and loved ones!

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