Love is Sweet – Valentine’s Day Cookies

You will need:

• Heart shaped sugar cookies – homemade or store-bought (I used store-bought)
• Pink store-bought cookie icing pouch
• Celebration pearls – red and white by SweetWorks
• Tootsie Rolls – chocolate and fruit flavored
• Starburst candies
• Airhead candies
• caramels
• Heart sprinkles
• Black edible marker
• **Various candies and sprinkles – to see which candies and sprinkles you will need read each recipe below.

1.  Using cookie icing pouch, frost the top of a heart cookie.

2.  Arrange candy pearls around the edge of the heart cookie, alternating red and white.

For the egg:

1.  Soften a white Airhead candy in the microwave for about 7 seconds so it can be shaped easily.

2.  Pull off a small piece, about the size of a nickel and roll into a ball.

3.  Flatten with fingers, giving it a fried egg shape.

4.  Press a yellow Sixlet candy in the middle.

5.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the bacon:

1.  Soften  vanilla and cherry Tootsie Rolls by microwaving them for about 7 seconds.

2.  Flatten with fingers into strips.

3.  Place a strip of white in the middle with smaller red strips on each side.  Press together.

4.  Trim with kitchen shears.

5.  Make a smiley face with a black edible marker.

Place both egg & bacon on cookie.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the peas:

1.  Place 2 green Sixlet candies on the iced cookie.

2.  Draw a smiley face on each with a black edible marker.

For the carrots:

1.  With a toothpick dipped in melted white chocolate or candy melts, attach a green clover sprinkle to the end of an orange Mike & Ike candy.

2.  Draw a smiley face on each carrot and place on top of iced cookie.

3.  Put 2 heart sprinkles in the middle of the peas and carrots.

For the macaroni:

1.  Microwave a vanilla Tootsie Roll for about 7 seconds so it can be easily shaped.

2.  Using about half of the Tootsie Roll, form into a macaroni shape.

3.  With a toothpick, make a hole in each end of the macaroni.

4.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the cheese:

1.  Microwave an orange Tootsie Roll for about 7 seconds so it can be easily shaped.

2.  Form into a small triangle so it resembles cheese.

3.  Using a very small frosting piping tip, make holes in the cheese.

4.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

5.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the bread:

1.  Soften a white Tootsie roll and a caramel in the microwave for about 7 seconds.

2.  Break the Tootsie roll in half and shape into a square.  Using your fingers, press into a bread shape by round the corners and slightly indenting the side of the square.

3.  Roll out a small piece of the caramel into a long rope and wrap around the bread for the crust.

4.  Draw a smiley face in the middle of the bread piece with a black edible marker.

For the butter:

1.  Draw a smiley face on a yellow Starburst candy.

2,  Place the bread and butter on top of the frosted cookie.

3.  Put 2 spinnkle hearts in the middle of the bread and butter.

For the milk:

1.  Cut a glass shape out of a white Airhead candy.

2.  Make a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the cookie:

1.  Soften a caramel for about 7 seconds.

2.  Roll into a ball and flatten.

3.  Using a black edible marker make dots to resemble chocolate chips.

4.  Draw a smiley face using the black edible marker.

5.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the shake:

1.  Frost the top of the Tootsie Roll and sprinkle white non pareils on top.

2.  Attach a small red sprinkle on top with frosting for the cherry.

3.  Press a small piece of licorice lace into the top of the Tootsie roll for the straw.  (You may want to use a toothpick to make a hole in the Tootsie Roll first).

4.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the chicken leg:

1.  Soften a caramel in the microwave for about 7 seconds.

2.  Pull off a piece about the size of a nickel and roll in a ball.

3.  Wrap one end around a SweetWorks candy bone and shape into a chicken leg.

4.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

5.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the bubbles:

1.  Press white SweetWorks Sixlet candies in the frosting.

2.  Make a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the gum:

1.  Press a strawberry Starburst into the frosting.

2.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

3.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the note:

1.  Press a black SweetWorks Sixlet candy into the frosting.

2.  With a small piping tip and white icing (or you can use a toothpick dipped in white icing)  draw on a smiley face.

3.  Draw the top of the note on the cookie with a black edible marker.

For the heart.

1.  Press a red SweetWorks Crazy Heart candy into the frosting.

2.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

3.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the glaze:

1.  Soften a vanilla Tootsie Roll in the microwave for about 7 seconds.

2.  Break in half and flatten.  Press colored jimmy sprinkles into the glaze.

3.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the donut.

1.  Soften a caramel in the microwave for about 7 seconds.

2.  Make into a donut shape.

3.  Draw on a smiley face with a black edible marker.

4.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

1.  Microwave 2 green Tootsie Rolls in for about 7 seconds to soften.

2.  Make into flip flop shapes.

3.  Attach a jumbo flower sprinkle to each one with frosting.

4.  Draw smiley faces with a black edible marker.

5.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the peanut:

1.  Soften caramel in the microwave for about 7 seconds.

2.  Form into a peanut shape.

3.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the butter:

1.  Press a yellow Starburst candy into the frosting.

2.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

3.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

For the straw:

1.  Cut a glass shape out of a white Airhead candy.

2.  Cut a small piece of a licorice lace and attach to the glass with frosting.

3.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

For the berry:

1.  Cut a berry candy in half and press into cookie frosting.

2.  Draw a smiley face with a black edible marker.

3.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.

1.  Press 2 Jube Jel candy hearts into cookie frosting.

2.  Draw smiley faces using a black edible marker.

3.  Place 2 red heart sprinkles in the middle of the cookie.