"Sweet" Fun on Valentine's Day

Making and decorating sugar cookies is a tradition around here for Valentine's Day.

A great set of heart-shaped cookie cutters bought a couple of years ago has several different sized hearts. 

Several dozen cookies baked in the oven on Monday so they were all ready to be decorated on the day of love. They will all be given away as gifts.

First came the assembling of all the supplies.

Canned frosting doesn't cut it. Instead, I use homemade cream cheese frosting. (Confectionery sugar, cream cheese, a teaspoon or so of vanilla, and a sprinkle of milk. Whip it all together with the mixer. That's all there is to it and it's delish.)

To make different colors of frosting, I use paper cups. This eliminates washing a lot of dishes. When a cup is all used up, into the trash it goes.

I like to get the tubes of frosting where tips with different designs can be screwed on. They are great for making little flowers.

Green frosting in tubes for writing on cakes makes good stems and even leaves.

Also, I like to use lots of sprinkles and red cinnamon candies.

As the decorating goes on and on and on, the fancy flowers and stems get less and less and less.  ha ha ha

Finally, frost and dip. That's it. Still festive but easy. 

After a couple of hours decorating cookies, there was still a big pile left, due to doubling of the original recipe.                          

Into a plastic bag they went and are now in the freezer for        another time.                                                                             

Enough was enough. Bye bye Valentine's day.                  
             

NAME ONE FUN THING YOU CAN TELL US ABOUT THAT YOU DID ON VALENTINE'S DAY!