VALENTINE COOKIE DELIVERY RECIPES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the milk, egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle., On a lightly floured surface, roll out half of the dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut out with a floured 3-in. heart-shaped cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets., Place skewers on top of each cookie with one end of each skewer about 1 in. from top of each heart. Gently press into the dough. Place a little extra dough over each skewer; press into cookie to secure. , Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until firm. Let stand for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool., Roll out remaining dough on a lightly floured surface. Cut out with a floured 3-in. heart-shaped cookie cutter. Cut out centers with a 1-in. heart-shaped cookie cutter. , Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until firm. Let stand for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool., In a small bowl, combine the butter, confectioners' sugar and enough cherry juice to achieve spreading consistency. Gently spread frosting over cookies with skewers; top with cookies with cutout centers.

Steps:

• Prepare your favorite sugar cookie dough.
• Lightly dust your surface with flour and roll out dough to ¼ inch thickness.
• Use a Joseph Rolling Pin or two skewers on either side of the dough to ensure evenly shaped cookies.
• Using 2 different heart shaped cutters cut out twice as many full heart cookies as the double cut out heart shape.
• To create the double heart cut out, use two identical shapes but two differentsizes.
• Place cut out cookie dough on parchment lined baking sheets and bake for 12 mins in a 350 degree oven.
• Let cookies cool on baking sheet until fully cool (about 30-45 mins)
• Prepare ½ of the royal icing recipe.
• The icing should be the consistency of the thick pourable elmers glue.
• Use a piping bag or sandwich sized ziplock bag cut a medium sized hole in the tiponce you are ready to glue the pieces together.
• For the stand sized heart shaped box, glue one full heart to one cut out heart.
• Remove any exposed wet icing in the center and let dry for at least 45min-60 min.
• For a taller cookie box glue two of the cutout cookie shapes instead of just one.
• Decorate the top of your box.
• You can spread icing on the top one of the full heart shaped cookies with your finger and dip into a bowl of sprinkles.
• Once the cookie bottoms have dried, fill the open cavity with sprinkles.
• Place the top cookie onto the bottom ones. You can either seal them with icing or notseal them. Both are still a lovely display.