Valentine's Day
Sunday, February 13, 2011 
Ahhh, Valentine's Day. Some people love it and others hate it. Listening to colleagues and friends, I'm starting to think that a majority would just as well do away with the holiday -- the stress of having to buy the perfect gift, getting dinner reservations, of not having someone to buy a gift for / receive a gift from / go out to dinner with...
Valentine's Day is much less complicated when you're a child. I remember having "home room" parties at school, usually involving a Valentine card exchange, fruit punch and cookies and games such as bingo using conversation hearts instead of chips or guessing the number of heart-shaped cinnamon red hots there were in a glass jar.
Thinking back to those parties got me into the mood to make some heart-shaped sugar cookies. If there's one thing you have to love about Valentine's Day, it's the color scheme -- when else can you get away with combining pink and red? or icing cookies flamingo pink? What I enjoyed most in making these cookies was tinting all of the different icings. Accompanied by tea (hold the fruit punch), they will be perfect for dessert on Valentine's Day.
Reader Comments (4)
Beautiful!
Those are GORGEOUS! How did you get the icing so perfect?
I used royal icing, which is pretty easy to work with once you get the hang of it. I use a knife and don't mess with bags. I iced about 5 dozen of these cookies and these were the "prettiest".
- Brooke
i want some!! bad. they are very pretty.