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valentine’s day
Show off your sweet side this Valentine’s Day
Treat family, friends and co-workers to
something they will all love this Valentine’s
Day by making easy and impressive cookies.
Start with your favorite roll-out cookie
recipe or simply dress up store-bought
ones by adding some simple details with
icing.
From the cupids at Wilton, here are
three ways to leave them smitten with
sweets this Valentine’s Day:
• Desserts with dimension. Triple your
treats by stacking three decorated cookies
in diff erent sizes together and attach
them with icing.
• Complement with color. A simple piping
technique looks stunning when piped
in diff erent colors on your cookies.
• Get to gift ing. Wrap your fi nished
treats in a Valentine’s Day treat bag or box.
For more fun and delicious Valentine’s
Day recipes, baking tips and inspiration,
visit www.wilton.com.
Stackable Ombre Heart Cookies
Each stacked cookie serves 1.
• Favorite roll-out cookie recipe
• Royal icing (recipe on wilton.com)
• Rose Icing Color
• Heart Micro Mini Icing Decorations
Prepare and roll out cookie dough following
recipe directions. Use 3 smallest
cutters from 4-piece heart nesting cookie
cutter set to cut out shapes. Bake and
cool cookies.
Divide royal icing into three equal portions,
and tint 3 shades of rose. Th in a
portion of each shade following recipe
directions. Use tip 3 and full-strength tinted
icing to outline cookies. Use thinned
tinted icing in cut decorating bag to fi ll
in cookies; gently tap to smooth icing. Let
dry overnight.
Use icing to attach cookies, stacking
largest to smallest; place icing decoration
on top.
Scalloped Heart Cookies
Each cookie serves 1.
• Favorite roll-out cookie recipe
• Ready-To-Use White Creamy Decorator
Icing
• Icing Colors: Burgundy, Red-Red and
Christmas Red
Prepare and roll out dough following
recipe directions. Use largest cutter from
the 4-piece heart nesting cookie cutter set
to cut out shape. Bake and cool cookies.
Divide icing into four equal portions.
Tint one of each portion light burgundy,
dark burgundy and combination of
red-red/Christmas red. Reserve last portion
white.
Starting from top edge of heart, use tip
102 and icing in dark burgundy, light burgundy,
red and white to pipe V-shaped
groups of two petals, one piped from left
and one from right, to create row of petals
in alternating colors. Repeat with second
row between petals in fi rst row. Continue
to repeat pattern until cookies are covered.
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