I Lava You Cookies

Show someone that you love them a lava with these I Lava You Cookies. A fun edible Valentine for kids and adults, these cookies are great for beginning decorators and only require a small amount of tools and ingredients to get started. You could also make these cookies for your sweetheart as a volcanic way to show them how much you care!

Skill LevelIntermediate

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Buttercream Frosting
Roll-Out Cookie Dough
Brown Icing Color, 1 oz.
Pink Hearts Edible Accents
Pink Sparkle Gel, 3.5 oz.
Red-Red Icing Color, 1 oz.

Tools
Decorator Preferred 9 inch Tapered Spatula
Perfect Results Premium Non-Stick Bakeware Mega Cookie Pan, 15 x 21-Inch
French Rolling Pin
3 Inch Metal Circle Cutter
Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula
Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count
Standard Round Tip 8
Recipe Right Non-Stick Cooling Grid, 16 x 10-Inch

Instructions

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Bake cookies. Prepare cookie dough following recipe instructions. Roll out dough to 1/8 in. thick. Using round cutter, cut out cookies. Bake and cool.
Prepare icing. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe instructions. Reserve ½ cup icing for later step. Using remaining icing and angled spatula, ice all cookies smooth.
Decorate cookies. For “I Lava You” Cookies: Using Pink Sparkle Gel, pipe message on cookie. Attach heart sprinkles.
For Volcano Cookies: Combine Brown and Red-Red icing colors to get brown color shown. Using reserved ½ cup icing, tint brown using color combinations provided. Prepare decorating bag with tip 8 and brown icing. Pipe volcano on cookie. Using tapered spatula, texture icing. Using Pink Sparkle Gel, pipe lava. Attach heart sprinkles.